Dūrā al Qar‘
Dura al-Qar' or Dura al-Qari'a is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
Dura al-Qar' or Dura al-Qari'a is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Dura al-Qar' had a population of 3,032 inhabitants in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Dūrā al Qar‘
One place 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.
- 01Yovel Cave
Yovel Cave is a massive karst cave located near the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the Benjamin region. It is recognized as the largest natural underground site in Israel.
2.8 km · karst cave in Ofra, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dūrā al Qar‘
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 33 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 72 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 77 km
- Amman → Dūrā al Qar‘68 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · JD4–5
- El Arish → Dūrā al Qar‘164 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · E£385–510
- Damascus → Dūrā al Qar‘199 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · $22–30
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dūrā al Qar‘
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 Dūrā al Qar‘. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
- Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
- Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).
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Next door to Dūrā al Qar‘
Dūrā al Qar‘ is 20 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- BirzeitPalestinian town north of Ramallah3.4 km
- Beit ElIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2 km
- OfraIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3 km
- BeitinPalestinian town3.8 km
- Jifnavillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate1.2 km
- Ein Yabrudmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, Palestine2.3 km