Destination Tel Aviv by Elaine Abrams
In Israel you will find not one but three sees – The Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Death Sea – and if you eager enough, you can bath in all three of them. If you want to visit the The Death Sea (bus from Tel Aviv costs 57 NIS) please note that because of hte high salt concentration you are only allowed to go into the sea twice a day – only twenty minutes in the morning and twenty in the evening. But if you can't be bothered to move around the country but still want to spend your holidays at a not at all boring place, i ll warmly recommend you Tel Aviv (with Air Berlin f.e.)!
The beaches of Tel Aviv are wide enough to forget the the city behind your back...but that would be such a pity...
Tel Avivs' beaches are regulary ranked as one of the best city beaches in the world – wide sand beaches and chrystall clear water form a mediterranean idyll just one step away from overpulsated city life. Tel Aviv is full of treasures – walk around the Bauhaus buildings, visit the Old Town Neve Tzedek filled with design boutiques and cosy cafés, enjoy the sundown right beside the ancient town of Jaffa. And when the night hits the town, the clubs are waiting to be explored – The Block (www.block-club.com), Radio EPGB (7 Shadal St.), Ezor (268 Dizengoff St.) - just to name a few good ones.
Big, big Sea World at coralworld.co.il, entrance 99 NIS – exotic fish and much, much more there to be observed...
Best way to save on hotels in Tel Aviv is to rent a studio through budget tourist darling airbnb.com. Nice and convenient en-suite, five minutes away from the beach, will cost a couple roughly the same as a room in a hostel.
At Dolphin Reef (dolphinreef.co.il) – plan in a half day minimum to visit Eilat to watch the dolphins, lay on a cosy beach, have lunch or dinner at some nice restaurants and do a doctor fish pedicure.
Follow me to the desert – 60 percent of Israel is taken up by this mesmerizing landscape!
The desert in Israel is a spiritual place with a high energetic potential. Go to Negev Desert with a backpack to escape the city noise and listen to the overwhelming silence or visit Arava Desert to practice yoga. Every year in November there is a huge worlwide yoga festival Yoga Arava with the best teachers from all around the globe. Sign up early at www.yogaarava.co.il.
Shlomit Malka, the current face and body of the lingerie brand Intimissimi, born and raised in Tel Aviv on Shopping in Tel Aviv:
Go to Inn 7 (Ben Yehuda 177, inn7fashion.com) for Rick Owens, Julius, Cinzia Araia, Preach, Zoe Karssen, Masnada.
Extravagant evening gowns you ll find at Alon Livne (24 Ahva St.). Even Beyonce is a huge fan of the hebrew designer.
Factory 54 (Ramat Aviv Shopping Mall — 40 Einstein St.) is the place where you can splurge on Carven, Isabel Marant, Marc Jacobs and T Alexander Wang.
Israeli style icon and actress Dodo Bar Or sells her own beautiful brand Dorit Bar Or (42 H’e Beiyar St.)
After checking out the young designers on Sheinken St., have a fallafel near by.
Sources: all over press; legion-media; glamour.ru