Yarka
Yarka, officially Yirka, is a Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel.
Yarka, officially Yirka, is a Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel. In 2019 it had a population of 17,171, 98.8% of them members of the Druze community, with small Muslim (1.0%) and Christian (0.1%) minorities.
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Worth seeing in and around Yarka
3 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.
- 01HaYonim Cave
HaYonim Cave is a cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel.
3.8 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Yehi'am Fortress National Park
Jiddin, also known as the Jiddin Fortress or Khirbet Jiddin is a partly ruined fortress in the western Upper Galilee 16 kilometers northeast of the port city of Acre. The fortress was originally built on the site of a Byzantine-era settlement by the Crusaders' Teutonic Order in the 13th century when it formed part of the Acre-based Kingdom of Jerusalem.
4.6 km · Israeli national park · Wikipedia - 03Horvat Tefen
Horvat Tefen or Qal'at et-Tufaniya, alternatively Tefen Fortress, is an archaeological site in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. Located on a mountain ridge approximately 16 kilometres from the coastal city of Acre, the site contains the remains of a short-lived hilltop fort dating to the early 1st century BCE. Excavations conducted in 2019 have made it possible to identify the site as a Hasmonean military installation.
4.1 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yarka
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 100 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 109 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 131 km
- Stations
- Ahihud railway station, 5.9 km
- Beirut → Yarka108 km · quickest by road, 5h 24m · $22–30
- Amman → Yarka131 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · JD7–9
- Tel Aviv → Yarka105 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₪42–55
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Yarka
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 Yarka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTrain, bus, car or hitch-hiking into the Western Galilee are the options you have.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is also possible and relatively easy north of Akko.
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Next door to Yarka
- Abu SnanArab town in northern Israel3.7 km
- Kafr YasifArab village in northern Israel4.4 km
- Majd al-Krumhuman settlement in Israel5.5 km
- Deir al-Asadhuman settlement5.9 km
- Jadeidi-Makrhuman settlement5.9 km
- JulisDruze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel2.6 km