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Upper Galilee
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The Upper Galilee is a far northern region of Israel, generally a forested highland area with relatively sparse population. Its landscape and historical associations make it a great draw for the traveller.
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- Amirim is a vegetarian village and has several vegetarian/vegan restaurants. Each Friday night at 21:00, Mika Karni / Miki Shaviv have a live music concert at their home in Amirim. You can get to the village on buses 361 or 501 from Haifa.
- Montfort Castle is a Crusader castle located in a beautiful forested area east of Nahariah.
- Mount Meron is Israel's highest mountain, excluding the Golan Heights, at 1208 meters above sea level. It has hiking trails and a great view. The Jewish village of Meron and the Druze villages of Beit Jan and Hurfeish are in its foothills.
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- Zippori
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- A number of Druze villages have an interesting and distinctive culture.
- Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is buried in the town of Meron, near Safed. Once a year on "Lag beOmer" (around May), hundreds of thousands of Israelis gather to Meron to celebrate the rabbi and his legacy of kabbalistic learning.
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Many visitors to the Upper Galilee sleep in a tzimmer - a kind of bed-and-breakfast place run out of a private house. Pretty much every town and village in the Galilee has a few of these.
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