--- title: "Dan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Dan, Israel: village. Nearby: Banias, Tel Azaziat, Givat HaEm. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dan.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village · Israel · Northern District # Dan What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Dan 5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Banias Banias, also spelled Banyas, is a site in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. 3.9 km · archaeological site in the Golan Heights · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banias) 2. Tel Azaziat Tel Azaziat is a hill in the foothills of the Golan Heights in northern Israel, 330 m above sea level, 1.5 km east of moshav She'ar Yashuv, 1.5 km south east of kibbutz Dan and 2 km west of Tel Faher. The basalt hill was a Syrian military outpost built within the DMZ, used to shell the Israeli villages below. 2.1 km · mountain in the Golan hights · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Azaziat) 3. Givat HaEm Giv'at Ha'Em is a hill named for American Zionist leader Henrietta Szold, known as the mother of Youth Aliya. The hill lies in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, 196 m above sea level, 1 km east of the Route 918 and 2 km north of Kfar Szold. 3.3 km · mountain in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_HaEm) 4. Hurshat Tal Hurshat Tal is a national park and nature reserve in the Northern District of Israel. 3.1 km · national park and nature reserve in Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurshat_Tal) 5. Omrit Omrit, or Khirbat ‘Umayrī, is the site of an ancient Roman temple. It stands where the western slopes of the Golan Heights meet the Upper Jordan Valley, in the 1949 Israel–Syria demilitarised zone, not far from Banias. 2.6 km · Archaeological site of an ancient Roman temple in northern Israel · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omrit) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Dan **Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 66 km · Damascus (DAM), 82 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 144 km\ - Tel Aviv → Dan 153 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · ₪65–85 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-dan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Dan) - Eilat → Dan 415 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · ₪510–780 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eilat-to-dan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eilat&to=Dan) - Beirut → Dan 74 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · $20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beirut-to-dan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beirut&to=Dan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Dan) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Dan Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Charter airlines can still make the trip for you, but commercial flight service no longer operates. - Get around Hitch-hiking is also accepted and possible. From [Wikivoyage: Galilee Panhandle](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Galilee_Panhandle), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 324 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 408 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 539 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 642 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,018 km If you know how people move in Dan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdan&title=Dan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Dan - [Caesarea Philippi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caesarea-philippi) ancient Roman city 3.8 km - [Al-Khisas, Safad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-khisas-safad) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 3.5 km - [She'ar Yashuv](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shear-yashuv) human settlement in Israel 1.6 km - [Snir](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/snir) human settlement in Israel 2.3 km - [Khan al-Duwayr](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khan-al-duwayr) village in Safad, Mandatory Palestine 1.8 km - [Al-Khisas raid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/al-khisas-raid) raid on Arab village, mandatory palestine 3.5 km [The place page for Dan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/dan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Israel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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