The Jerusalem Botanical garden located near the Hebrew University, is a wonderful destination for those tourists who have the time to acclimatize. Here you can spend a relaxing day, inhaling exotic aromas and enjoying the vegetation from all over the world. However, the terrain here is hilly, and in the heat it will be tough to constantly climb up and down. In this case, visitors relax in the cafe on the shore of an artificial lake with black swans or ride on the little train (he starts the way every hour every day except Saturday).

Garden in the hills was planted in 1954 – as an alternative to the first Botanical garden on mount Scopus, lost during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. As a result of war, mount Scopus, together with the University campus and gardens, which housed the Biblical zoo, was cut off from the young state of Israel. However, the campus of the Hebrew University, and the Botanical garden was revived in another, the new district of Jerusalem.

On an area of 12 hectares, located 10 thousand plants species – the largest collection in the country. They are planted in sections representing the flora of different regions of the Mediterranean, Central and South-West Asia, Australia, North America, Europe and South Africa. The composition of the collection in some way symbolizes the geographical position of Israel at the crossroads of three continents. In addition, Jerusalem is located in the climatic boundary: on one side of the hill may lie here snow and summer-warmed earth. So in the garden feel and Australian eucalyptus trees, and plants of North American wetlands, and Turkish oaks. Many seasonal flowers (for example, snapdragons and tulips) are in bloom at the same time, which rarely happens in Europe. This amazing space attracts a variety of birds – there are at least 46 species of birds, including cormorants and Syrian woodpeckers.

In the Botanical garden are proud of one of the oldest and most diverse collections of bonsai in Israel: there are about 300 of them. For those who want to learn the art of growing dwarf trees in the garden of the school-workshop.

The tropical greenhouse reproduces the conditions of tropical rain forests on both sides of the equator is hot and humid. So well, palm trees, bananas, vanilla, coffee trees, epiphytic orchids, as well as favorite visitors carnivorous winged nepenthes eating insects.

But, perhaps, most tourists are interested in the unique local landmark – the Biblical path. Along pjatisotmetrovyj winding roads planted with more than 70 species of plants mentioned in the Bible. Among them wheat, Lebanese cedar, grapes, almonds, cane, hyssop, papyrus, date palm, olive, carob trees, Mandrake. To understand where it mentions the plant and why it was important to the ancient Hebrews, help audio guide (you can take it in cash) and plates with appropriate texts from the Bible.