Rosh Hanikra 0501-7 israel
Rosh Hanikra is the northernmost point on the Mediterranean shore of Israel, where a chalk mountain range meets the sea. The sea carved out a chain of grottoes in the foot of the chalk cliffs. These beautiful grottoes are the main attraction of Rosh Hanikra. For a long time, the Rosh Hanikra mountain range have been an obstacle for those who needed to travel along the shoreline. In 1940s, the British army dug three tunnels through the three cliffs of Rosh Hanikra and built railway bridges linking the tunnels - the Haifa-Beirut railway passed here. During the War of Independence (1948), the bridges were blown up by Jewish partisans. The first, southern tunnel, and half of the second, middle tunnel, are now in the Israeli territory; the rest is Lebanese. A small tourist "train" can take you to the southern tunnel and the reconstructed railway bridge. Then you walk through a passage hewn in the rock, which leads you down to the natural grottoes. We did not take the train but descended to the entrance in a cable car. The steep cable car line connects the grottoes with the top of the cliff (the upper station is near the Israel-Lebanon border crossing). Before going down into the grottoes, you can venture to the second railway tunnel (divided between Israel and Lebanon), where you watch a film (with some special effects) about the geology and the history of Rosh Hanikra. At sunset, unusual colours and sounds of the sea make the grottoes especially impressive
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