Yarkon Park (officially it is called Ganei Yehoshua Yehoshua Rabinovitch in honor of one of the mayors of Tel Aviv) - the only large park in Tel Aviv, the "green lungs" of the city. According importance for urban residents Yarkon compared with New York's Central Park. Not surprisingly, the Yarkon so popular - the year it is visited by about 16 million people.

Open in 1973, the park stretches along the longest coastal river of Israel rushing to the Mediterranean Sea - the Yarkon. The river is not considered to be clean - it was heavily polluted in the 1950s, and although since then efforts have been made for its cleaning, and in 2011 the mayor of Tel Aviv defiantly jumped into the water and swam, the locals do not recommend to fish here. Despite this, in the park thrive storks, herons, geese, ducks and many other birds, as well as nutria, porcupines, mongooses, and even jackals.

To see the sights, you can rent a bike and ride the park from end to end. The cycle path goes along the river. There are common and cyclists and joggers and lovers of Nordic walking with sticks, and walk the dog. If you start from the western side, the road passes by the building rowing center, built in the form of an upturned boat; Memorial past the victims of terrorism; past many sports grounds (for fans of basketball, football, baseball, roller-skating, tennis, climbing). Then, after passing under several bridges, you can wrap a group of gardens - tropical, rocks, cactus.

In general, most of the trees in the park - eucalyptus, their once-specifically distributed in Israel for better drainage of wetlands. But in a tropical garden you can admire the orchids, vines, palm trees. Rock Garden is a large collection of rock samples typical of the Israeli landscape, with poetic explanations: for example, limestone on the plate called a gift of the sea, and granite - a message from the depths. In the garden of cacti are more than three thousand species of plants.

Near the gardens lies the artificial lake with swans. Many take here rent boats, pedal boats, kayaks or deploying stuck sandwiches, picnics on the beach. Not far from a small dam on the River Yarkon the ruins of the mills of the XIX century, built on the site of an ancient (it is possible that the flour was milled here back in the Roman period). Place is called - "Seven mills". Visitors are attracted to children and a mini-zoo "Tsapari" and a greenhouse of butterflies, and a playground. "Tsapari" inhabited mainly birds (among them the majority of parrots), but there are turtles, and rabbits, and guinea pigs - they can be ironed.

Walk over to the eastern part of the Yarkon Park. A cycle track goes on, but are tired of new experiences to tourists is the time to relax in the "Meymadione", Israel's largest water park with dozens of attractions - water slides and pools for all ages.