Practical Information Bus #55 makes two trips per day from Kiryat Shmona, approaching Katzrin from the north and going past the towns at the base of Mt. Sermon (NIS13.5O). Alternatively, buses #841, 842, 845, 480, 500 and 969 leave Kiryat Shmona for Rosh Pina (NIS7), where you can catch bus #55, 56, or 57 and approach Katzrin from the opposite direction (N1S6.20).From Tiberias, buses #15, 16. and 19 travel to katzrin.

Ask the bus driver to let you off in front of the Golden Field School on daliyat St.(tel.961234) an invaluable source of information on the area; the school even gives lift in their tour buses when there’s room. Their accommodations are often full, but they run an exceUent campground (tel. 96 12 34) 500m east along the road in front of the school. Registration is ordinarily open 8am-7pm, but if no one is there you can find the manager in the field school. Pleasant bungalows for two cost NIS100, tent sites NISI 1 per person. Next door to the Archeological Museum there is a public pool (tel. 96 16 55; open daily 9am-5pm; admission NIS9), a supermar. ket, and the town’s few restaurants.