Hi,
We spent the day hiking in Ein Divsha spring, which is very similar to Ein A-Tina spring we visited last year (and also very close 🙂).
The Ein Divsha trail is very nice and easy, even for Jannaeus, Mindal and Xuxa – who got over her fear of water and climbed up with us. You are climbing up the steep trail, but your feet in the water and you are shaded from the trees above.
The place was used by the Syrian village that stood here until Six Day War as watermill. The watermill was renovated later on and was abandon after. Now most of its the water flows down a pipe to fields below, and the plan is to allow them flow down free and make it a nature reserve.
We spent the night at Ein Zivan open camping site. After several camping sites which were unbelievable crowded and cost too much, we realized we better sleep here.
I first thought we should visit the nearby Ein Mokesh (Mine spring) which got its name from the fact it used to be in the middle of a minefield. It was the water source of the original Syrian village Ein Ziwan that stood here before the six day war. It is a round water pool with stone walls with nice cantilevered stone stairs that goes down to the water. Beautiful, not does not fit for kids 🙂
Take Care
Gad
General view on Ein Divsha flow down Golan heights. The road is narrow and the parking lot is improvised.
Jannaeus with the stream. The trail was clear, although when we just got there a family insisted on walking through the bushes.
What can you ask more? Prefect for a hike with the kids and Xuxa.
Benches and sign in the memory of Major Tzafrir Ba-Or who fell on Operation Protective Edge on 20.07.2021.
The arch on the entrance to the renovated watermill.
The watermill on the inside
The stone mills
The two mill outflow tunnels
Left tunnel with the turbine
Right tunnel without the turbine
The inflow tunnel
The view from the top of the inflow above the piers over Hula valley and lake
And looking down on the watermill
Climbing up the cascades
The concrete structure that used to catch the water.
Looking South to the ruins of the Syrian Village.
Where the spring start flows down and the end of the way up.
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