Timna Park- Educational Field Trips

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Timna Park extends over an area of 64 square kilometers. The park contains amazing scenery, unique natural phenomena, geologic formations, antiquities sites, desert flora and fauna.

The Timna Park staff excels at planning, preparing, and executing unique educational youth programs.

Desert Astronomy: Stargazing and stellar navigation.

Challenges: Desert survival including group decision-making, problem-solving in the field, orienteering, water procurement, rope climbing as a group activity and a conceptual challenge.

  • Bicycle trips: Challenging tours through the park on mountain bikes.
  • Rappelling/Omega: 18-meter rappelling site and ‘Omega’ slide.
  • Jeep tours: Routes include from Timna Park to the dune in Nahal Nimrah, to Nahal Orah and Nahal Raham, around through the Nimrah Ascent to the open mine and Timna Lake.
  • Arts and Crafts: activities with natural materials, filling bottles with colored sand, ‘make-up’ with colored sand, working with clay, ‘pressing’ King Solomon’s coins, copper art, and more.
  • The Tabernacle: a guided tour of the reconstruction of the Tabernacle, located near Timna Lake, and the story of the journey of the Israelites through the desert.
  • Mines of Time; a multi-media educational presentation of the history of copper mining on a 360-degree screen.
  • Archery range
  • Climbing wall: by advance booking
  • Organized sleeping facility for school field trips in the Bedouin Tent near the lake. Mattresses and mats, lights, hot showers, drinking fountains, and public restrooms.
  • Lodging for faculty at nearby Sunset Garden in Kibbutz Elifaz.
  • Meals (in accordance with IYHA prices): barbeques, light Middle-Eastern style meals in the Bedouin tent.
  • Discotheque: By Timna Lake, beverages included.

Our creative, dynamic production staff offers your students a unique, unforgettable educational experience.

Timna Park is an approved site of the Israeli Ministry of Education.

For details, please phone
+972 8 631 6756 or fax us at +972 8 633 9403

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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