Snir

Worth seeing in and around Snir

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. 01
   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.

   1.6 km · archaeological site in the Golan Heights · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Nimrod Fortress

   The Nimrod Fortress, also called Nimrod Castle, is a castle built by the Ayyubids and greatly enlarged by the Mamluks, situated on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, on a ridge rising about 800 m above sea level. It overlooks the Golan Heights and was built with the purpose of guarding a major access route to Damascus against armies coming from the west.

   3.7 km · medieval fortress situated in the occupied Golan Heights · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   1.9 km · mountain in the Golan hights · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.8 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   2.8 km · Archaeological site of an ancient Roman temple in northern Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Snir

Airports

Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 67 km · Damascus (DAM), 80 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 144 km

• Tel Aviv → Snir

  154 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · ₪65–85
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• Eilat → Snir

  415 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · ₪520–790
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• Beirut → Snir

  74 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · $20–27
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