Northern Israel Road Trip
 

Because sometimes driving distance and driving time can be different based on the conditions of the road; two lane, curves etc. Can anyone give me an idea how many days to plan for this type of road trip with stops and overnights.

Haifa-Nazereth-Tiberias-Sea of Galilee-Zfat-Mereno-Akko-Haifa

Also if anyone knows what kind of roads, highways we would be traveling on to get to these destinations.
Your comments are appreciated.

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Several suggested for the North routes all good

Did it over 3 days when there last...

Lots of interesting things to see roads were decent.

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Happy Journey,

I wasn't on all of those roads last summer, but I can say that to my recollection (which was only as a passenger and might be very, very flawed) a lot of the smaller roads are quite curvy with one lane for each direction.

The bigger roads (like Nazareth to Tiberias) will be pretty straight, mostly two lanes per direction, less hilly (to my recollection). Depending on whether you stop along the way between cities in the smaller towns and villages, you may or may not get off the main roads.
There aren't many traffic lights in Northern Israel, and many of the traffic patterns rely on going through roundabouts at the edges of some of the smaller towns there.
Signs are pretty clearly marked in English at almost every junction, though.

I've never done the kind of drive that you're suggested, but the whole area is stunning (one of my favorite paneramas is located right at the edge of Tzfat, up the hill and over looking much of the Galil) and I'm sure it will be fabulous!

Nesiya Tova!

I lived there when the roads were not as good as they are now and I would have been able to easily drive your entire trip leaving after an early breakfast and returning for a not too late dinner, so it all depends on how much time you want to spend in each place. I wouldn't worry much about driving times, the country is small. For example Tiberias is on the Sea of Gallilee. Akko is very near Haifa. Concentrate on what you want to see and plan around that. There are beautiful things to see along that route.

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I suggest you to stay in two places: Haifa and Tiberias.
From Haifa you can do day trips to:
- Natzereth
- Akko
- Cesareea
From Tiberisa:
- tours around the Kineret lake (Sea of Galilee)
- Day trip to Tzfat

The roads are in good condition.

Last fall we drove to Haifa and stayed at a Dan hotel. The hotel arranged a tour for us to Akko which is a very short distance from Haifa. Spent the day in Akko which is very different than the other places we've visited in Israel. More Arab yhan places we had viisted previously. Had a great time and learned alot from having a tour. We usually travel independently but wanted to try a tour this time. No one else was on the tour so we had in essence a private tour. She was great, very knowledgeeable and ktook us to places we would not have visited.

We also visited Tiberias on another trip. stayed at the Mt Moriah hotel and went to Tzfat, Rosh Pina, Katzrin al while staying in Tiberias. While there we also visited Capernaum and saw the old synogogue. Katzrin is called the "Masada of the North" The old village has reconstructed bldgs as well as a bronz age house. One of the bldgs still has origi8nal de4signs on a bedroom wall.

Stayed at the Dan Cesarea and spent 2 days there. It was the only hotel in the area and it is very close to Cesarea.

We've been to Israel 3 times and really have enjoyed and learned alot.

Enjoy yout visit.