{"id":4586,"date":"2022-12-17T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/trail\/ein-avdat-one-way-trail-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:58:20","slug":"ein-avdat-one-way-trail-2","status":"publish","type":"trail","link":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/trail\/ein-avdat-one-way-trail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein Avdat \u2013 One-Way Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The starting point is near the ticket booth at the entrance to Ein Avdat National Park, located below Midreshet Ben-Gurion. From the parking lot, we begin walking south along the blue-marked footpath toward the Ein Avdat canyon. After about 300 meters, we pass a solitary and impressive Atlantic pistachio tree. We continue along the blue-marked trail into the canyon, crossing small streams of flowing water. After about 800 meters, we see a staircase on our right ascending along the blue trail. We don\u2019t climb it yet, so we can continue onward toward the spring. We pass the staircase and continue left along the canyon for about 100 meters toward the Ein Avdat pool, located beneath the waterfall. After taking in the waterfall and the deep pool beneath it, we return to the staircase we passed earlier and begin the climb to the upper level of the canyon. Among the light-colored chalk rocks, we can spot the dark flint stones protruding against the pale background. Flint is a unique sedimentary rock formed through a rare and complex process from the mineral silica, which once made up the skeletons of tiny single-celled organisms that floated in the waters of the ancient Tethys Sea. These organisms are known as Radiolaria and Diatoms. These marine organisms, whose skeletons were made of silica, sank to the bottom of the ancient Tethys Ocean, which covered this region around 40 million years ago. A silica-based skeleton is considered a rare phenomenon in nature, as most animals build their skeletons from calcite, which is calcium-based rather than silica-based. Along the stairway, we encounter natural caves that were expanded and used by monks who lived in them during the Byzantine period (4th\u20137th centuries CE). We continue walking from the top of the staircase along the narrow path, taking in the view of the Ein Avdat pool from above. We cross to the left side of the canyon and continue along the trail that passes through a grove of <em>Euphrates poplars<\/em> scattered along the steep slope, accompanied by several impressive palm trees. The ascent from the bottom of the Ein Avdat canyon to the end of the hike at the Upper Ein Avdat parking lot involves climbing a carved staircase that rises about 200 meters, connecting the canyon floor to the upper lot. The hike ends at the Upper Ein Avdat parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":382,"template":"","blocation":[],"duration":[],"time":[],"season":[],"level":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4586","trail","type-trail","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trail\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trail"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/trail"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blocation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blocation?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"time","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/time?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/negevtrails.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}