Hai Bar Yotvata

Located in the southern Arava Valley north of Eilat was established to foster the breeding of animals mentioned in the Bible and other endangered desert animals. The reserve encompasses a variety of arid land habitats including acacia groves, salt flats and sand.

Hai Bar Yotvata is divided into three main sections: a 12 square kilometer open area where herds of desert herbivores live in conditions similar to the wild, a predator center with enclosures containing large predators, reptiles and small desert animals, and a dark room to view nocturnal animals when they are active.

An informative CD that guides visitors through the reserve in their car is for sale for NIS 5 at the reserve shop. Groups of visitors can reserve a tour with a reserve guide in their own cars at a cost of NIS 200. Visitors tour the predators center and the dark room on their own

Directions to the site:
On the Dead Sea Eilat (no. 90) road, between kibbutzim Yotvata and Samar, 35 km north of Eilat, Egged bus 390 from Tel Aviv, 397 from Beer Sheva , 444 from Jerusalem and 991 from Haifa to Samar

Hours:
Sunday thru Thursday 8:30 A.M. till 5 P.M. Friday thru Saturday 8:30 A.M. till 4 P.M.

Telephone: 08.637.6018