Israel

In spite of being an old country, Israel celebrates only its 50ème birthday as Nation.

This recent history s' is characterized by an often explosive mixture of disproportionate policy, religion and culture compared to the tiny size d' Israel. T

his small country of the Middle East has been the point of meeting of different cultures for more than 6.000 years.

For the tourists, that means country with a diversity and a richness which is extraordinary.

The history of Israel is engraved in its landscape, on the face of its inhabitants and is anchored in the buildings which seem to whisper of the old stories.

Israel is bordered by l' Egypt in south-west, Jordan and Palestinian territories  at east, Lebanon in north, Syria in the North-East and the Mediterranean with l' west.

Heights of Golan in north with Eilat, the southernmost point, Israel, with its mixture of cultures Western and means-Eastern, offers an universe of attractive experiments for the travellers.

You can lunch in an Arab small village, and you find one hour or two later in an animated modern city.

The majority of the inhabitants Jewish, are followed Moslems sunnites. The official languages are l' Hebrew and l' Arabic, spoken per approximately 15% about the population.

Practically all Israelis, of the Bedouin Arabs to the men d' businesses townsmen, speak English. In the south, a good part of the area is desert, but north is green and fertile thanks to the Jordan river. The coastal region is a plain and the center of the country consists of hills.

The climate is generally hot and the heat wave n' is not rare in summer, in particular in the south. North is very cold in winter, with sometimes of snow, the most important downpours occurring between October and April. Vestiges of the majority of principal civilizations of the world and l' old architecture can be admired in many Israeli cities, in particular with Jerusalem, the capital. Tourism is thus an activity accessible and enriching. For those which s' interest in the sports and the leisures, l' summer is the period most indicated to visit Israel. You can make kayak on the Jordan, of deep-sea diving in the water filled with corals d' Eilat, surfer, to sail water skiing and, and throughout l' year you have the possibility of making stroll with back of camel in the desert, to take part in archaeological excavations and heaps d' excursions.