Tel Aviv travel guides & articles

All 23 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Tel Aviv — newest first.

Masada at Sunrise and a Dead Sea Float from Tel Aviv

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Masada at Sunrise and a Dead Sea Float from Tel Aviv

The cable car does not run for sunrise, so the light on Herod's terraces has to be walked for: the timings that work, and where to float afterwards.

How to Do Masada and the Dead Sea from Tel Aviv in September

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How to Do Masada and the Dead Sea from Tel Aviv in September

A twelve-hour desert day from Tel Aviv, timed around the September heat. When to climb, when to go indoors, which stretch of shore to swim from, and what the whole thing costs at the gate.

Tel Aviv to Rosh Hanikra in September With the Grottoes Closed

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Tel Aviv to Rosh Hanikra in September With the Grottoes Closed

The sea caves at the end of the country are shut this September. The northern day out of Tel Aviv still works, and this is where you stand for the view now.

Riding the Tayelet from Tel Aviv Port Down to Jaffa

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Riding the Tayelet from Tel Aviv Port Down to Jaffa

A flat, mostly car-free line from the northern seafront to a working fishing harbour, and the opening hours that decide what time you should set off.

Eating Your Way Down Tel Aviv's Carmel Market in September

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Eating Your Way Down Tel Aviv's Carmel Market in September

What to eat, when to arrive, and whether the guided walk through Tel Aviv's biggest shuk is worth 145 USD in the last of the September heat.

Caesarea in September on a Day Trip North of Tel Aviv

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Caesarea in September on a Day Trip North of Tel Aviv

Herod's drowned harbour is walkable again once the heat breaks. A September day built around it, with a plan for when the weather turns.

Walking the Crusader City of Acre from Tel Aviv

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Walking the Crusader City of Acre from Tel Aviv

A full day inside Acre's walls: the knights' halls at opening, the Templars Tunnel down to the harbour, hummus before noon and the sea wall at last light.

Walking Neve Tzedek in Tel Aviv's September Light

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Walking Neve Tzedek in Tel Aviv's September Light

Three hours on the streets Tel Aviv was built out of, with the houses worth going inside, the opening hours that catch people out, and what September does to the timing.

Arriving Alone in Tel Aviv and Not Staying That Way

Arriving Alone in Tel Aviv and Not Staying That Way

A walked route through the hostels, pavement bars, market counters and Friday drum circles of Tel Aviv, and the points on it where a solo traveller ends up in conversation.

Where to Stay in Tel Aviv When You Arrive Without a Car

Where to Stay in Tel Aviv When You Arrive Without a Car

Fifteen places to sleep inside the three-kilometre rectangle that covers most of what a first trip to Tel Aviv needs, ranked by who each one suits.

Tel Aviv Indoors When the October Rain Arrives

Tel Aviv Indoors When the October Rain Arrives

The city's first rain of the year lands in late October. These are the museums, market counters, houses and stages that hold an afternoon, with real prices, closure dates and door realities.

Ruins, Sand and Flat Walks a Short Drive from Tel Aviv

Ruins, Sand and Flat Walks a Short Drive from Tel Aviv

Eleven coastal and inland day trips you can reach in under ninety minutes, with the prices, the door policies and a straight note on which ones work with a group.

Planning a Tel Aviv Weekend Around Friday and Shabbat

Planning a Tel Aviv Weekend Around Friday and Shabbat

Friday morning is the only morning the markets give you, and Saturday belongs to the sea, the museums and Jaffa. Below, the two days hour by hour, on foot.

Walking Tel Aviv Alone on Your First Day

Walking Tel Aviv Alone on Your First Day

An hour-by-hour route, walked in full, from the Carmel Market lanes to the Jaffa quayside, with what shuts for Shabbat, how the sea current runs, which places need booking and what the day costs in shekels.

Five Days in Tel Aviv Without Renting a Car

Five Days in Tel Aviv Without Renting a Car

Five days on foot and on shared bikes, along the seafront path and through the market streets, with the Shabbat timings that decide which day goes where.

October in Tel Aviv Means Warm Sea and Walkable Streets

October in Tel Aviv Means Warm Sea and Walkable Streets

October is the last month with lifeguards on the sand and the first cool enough to walk the whole promenade in daylight. How to order a Tel Aviv day around both.

Carmel Market's Second Shift: Tel Aviv After Dark

Carmel Market's Second Shift: Tel Aviv After Dark

When Shuk HaCarmel's stalls close, a scrappier market of bars, steakhouses and one-a.m. pita counters opens in their place — here's how to move through it.

Tel Aviv After Midnight: A Café Crawl That Never Ends

Tel Aviv After Midnight: A Café Crawl That Never Ends

From Rothschild egg breakfasts at 4 a.m. to a Jaffa flea-market bar still pouring after 2, this is how Tel Aviv's cafés keep going, hour after hour, without ever really closing.

The Dead Sea's Otherworldly Float: A Practical How-To for First-Timers

The Dead Sea's Otherworldly Float: A Practical How-To for First-Timers

How to get to the lowest point on earth from Tel Aviv, which shoreline suits you, and the four rules that keep the float pleasant instead of painful.

The White City: Walking Tel Aviv's Bauhaus Streets

The White City: Walking Tel Aviv's Bauhaus Streets

A calm, on-foot reading of the world's largest concentration of International-Style architecture — where to start, what to go inside, and where to sleep within the conservation zone.

Beach by Beach: Tel Aviv's Mediterranean Strip from Dawn to Dusk

Beach by Beach: Tel Aviv's Mediterranean Strip from Dawn to Dusk

A calm, walked-in-order guide to Tel Aviv's shoreline — which sand suits couples, which suits groups, where to surf, and where to end the day as the sun drops behind Jaffa.

The White City Walk: Tel Aviv's Bauhaus Blocks, One Street at a Time

The White City Walk: Tel Aviv's Bauhaus Blocks, One Street at a Time

A street-by-street guide to walking Tel Aviv's UNESCO-listed White City in 2026 — where to start, which building teaches what, and which tour actually fits your group.

The Hummus Pilgrimage: Tel Aviv's Most Obsessive Chickpea Ritual

The Hummus Pilgrimage: Tel Aviv's Most Obsessive Chickpea Ritual

How to eat your way through Tel Aviv's temple hummusiyot the way the city's fanatics do — early, in the right order, and gone before the pot scrapes empty.