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This trip is about 4k and is not difficult It begins at the "Carmel Gate" parking lot next to Road 672, which connects the Elyakim Interchange to Daliyat al-Carmel. In the parking lot, there are picnic tables, toilets and water . Park the car in the parking lot and continue on foot into the forest on a wide dirt road marked in green. After about 600 meters, you reach a path junction and turn right following the green marking, and at the next junction, after about 150 meters, turn left. A further 100-meter walk will meet us with a sign pointing to the right to the "cave path" שביל המערות marked along its entire length in red. The path leads to a large rock-hewn plaza, and five caves Probably the tomb of a wealthy family living in the area in the late Roman or Byzantine period. The path curves between stone picnic tables , and later a forest mixed with grove trees. Follow the red trail markings all the way and do not accidentally turn to other trails. There are beautiful flower in the area at this time of year After the rocky area, the path connects to several wooden steps that lead to two benches overlooking the landscape - the jezreel valley and mount Tabor The continuation of the "cave path" marked in red after the lookout descends into a forest whose land is covered with rocks and passes by another complex of burial caves. The path enters an orchard with old olive trees - and immediately afterwards meets the starting point of the "Cave Trail". Here turn left onto the wide dirt road marked in green, which leads back to the car park where you started the hike. For shorter hikes and other ideas contact me directly since I cannot post html links eyb145 at google

In the Carmel Forest there are hundreds of kilometers of hiking trails - some moderatrely difficult, but the most challenging section of the forest is the upper half of Nahal Kelah. Get Trail Map # 4 found in most book stores. It's in Hebrew. Next best thing to do is to google "Nahal Kelah" and read up on it! Good luck!

Hi- There are few simple ways to get there but it depends what you like to see as mount Carmel is huge if you just want to get to the open national parks for hiking and to the ridge (once you get to Haifa University - you can cross the road to "Little Switherland" and start hike into Beit=Oren ' jjust few miles away 1 - There are public buses which go to the Haifa University 2 - There are public buses which are going to the Drusian vilages Dalia-El-Carmel and Usefia where you can dine' and have open local bazar 3- There are service cabs from Haifa down-town to the Drusian vilages and Haifa University if you want to get to the open zoo Hai-Bar ' get to the university and cross the road (ther eis a small entry charge - less than 10 $) If you can be more specific on what hours' or days and i can find you public Taxy phone numbers or EGED bus numbers ' depend if you get to Haifa by Train ' Bus or by Local flight - Leor for you There are trails for MBK (biking) ' walking ' and off course my favorite offroads trails for 4x4 ' and near by at Beit-Oren junction there are Horses and more to rent

You can take Little Switzerland hike starting at parking lot (GPS coordinates 32.7454305 35.0246551) Try to find "Little Switzerland – Kelach & Galim streams" in Google. Web site "Tiuli" has English description and maps.