A stroll along Tel Aviv's beaches Tour Routes and Entertainment Ideas

Reading Park, which is near the Reading power station and the Yarkon Stream estuary in the north of Tel Aviv, was once the place where the Mediterranean Sea ended and the "forbidden city of the electric company” started. Since the inauguration of the promenade, which connects between the power station’s cooling pools and the Tel Baruch beach, this place is open to visitors and offers a completely different Tel Avivi experience. The Reading Park, which spreads over 60 dunams, is quiet and is great for a leisurely walk near the open sea, with this quiet only occasionally being disturbed by landing airplanes activity in the nearby Sdeh Dov and Air Force airports. Reading Park is rich in natural coastal flora and fauna. The cooling pools’ 200 meters breakwater, allows for a walk along a narrow path into the Mediterranean Sea. Above the cooling pools was built a 160 meters long pedestrian and bicycle bridge, which is also disabled accessible.

The Port of Tel Aviv is the first Hebrew Port of the first Hebrew City- Tel Aviv. Today, the Tel Aviv Port complex is considered to be a culture, entertainment, leisure, sports, music, shopping, food and creativity center and it attracts to it a large number of visitors. In the Port of Tel Aviv there are more than 60 food, fashion, health and communication related businesses. It has a lifestyle complex for women only and it prides itself with the largest and most successful nightclubs in Tel Aviv, and it also includes intimate bars that offer live performances. The Port of Tel Aviv also features a New Age complex which offers Yoga classes; a unique Farmers’ Market that offers fresh organic products directly from the farmer to the consumer; a center for children and families; various creative workshops, and, of course, a variety of shops and restaurants that offer their customers a wonderful experience by the Mediterranean Sea.

Tel Aviv Promenade (known in Hebrew as the Tayelet) stretches along the Mediterranean seashore of Tel Aviv and it is one of the most attractive destinations in the city of Tel Aviv. Along the Tel Aviv Promenade (Tayelet) one can find an abundance of restaurants, cafés and bars, and the Promenade (Tayelet) itself is a wonderful tourist attraction which combines the beautiful seascape, an enjoyable breeze all year round and a lot of sunshine and sunsets. The Tel Aviv Promenade (Tayelet) began with the Lahat Promenade- which was built in the 1970s and was named after Tel Aviv’s former Mayor, Shlomo Lahat- between the Dan Hotel and the Opera Tower. In recent years extensive renovation and development work has been done at the Tel Aviv Promenade, and today it stretches along 14 charming kilometers, from Tel Baruch to the north to "The Slope Park” ("Park HaMidron”) in Jaffa to the south.

The Drums’ Beach, or Drummers’ Beach, is a southern Tel Aviv beach, located near the structure which once held Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium, and named after the familiar scene for which it is famous. Every Friday near sunset people gather here on the pier with drums, Middle Eastern goblet drums (or darbukas), guitars and flutes, and welcome the sunset with playing, dancing and juggling in a contagious Shanti (in Sanskrit meaning bliss) atmosphere. This alternative welcoming of the Sabbath has been performed here for about twenty years already and it attracts great numbers of people who come to participate in the celebration, drink alcohol which is being sold here in quantity and enjoy this unique scene until it is dark.

The Charles Clore Garden spreads over 120 green dunams along the southern shore of Tel Aviv in the direction of Jaffa. The garden, with its vast lawns, was established in the 1970s with the help of Sir Charles Clore, a British Jewish businessman and philanthropist. The garden was re-opened recently, after development and renovation works in honor of Tel Aviv’s centennial celebrations. Today it connects with the beach promenade and serves as a great park which attracts many families due to its amusement installations, the fountain in which children can dip, its sports facilities, Yoga platform, sculptures and numerous areas for barbeque. All year round people arrive here to do sport activities and to relax, and on Saturdays this place is filled with hundreds of people who come here to enjoy a barbeque meal in the park. The great combination between the lawns and the sea makes this place especially beautiful.

A promenade along the Second Aliyah wharf, down Old Jaffa, from the north-west corner of the detention house, or k??la, to the north gate of the port. The promenade features indications for the ancient Jaffa walls which stood here in the past and provided protection for the residents of the city. This place is busy with fishermen, tourists and many brides and grooms who come here to take pictures in front of the photogenic sunset that is accompanied by the call of the muezzin of the nearby Sea Mosque. At the promenade there is a nice observation point toward Tel Aviv to the north, toward the familiar silhouette of Jaffa to the south, and to the Andromeda rocks. The promenade is paved in stone, and alongside it are galleries and artists workshops and from here one can go up to Old Jaffa and to the artists’ quarter.

The Jaffa Port is one of the world’s most ancient ports and these days it is going through renovation and development works. It is situated between, to the north, the rocks of Andromeda, in front of the Al-Bahr Mosque (Sea Mosque), and to the south, the Jaffa Slope. In its past, this port has served as a shipping port, but its activity was terminated with the opening of the Ashdod port in the 1960s. Since then it has been used as a fishing port and today, after comprehensive renovation works, it is considered to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in Jaffa. It is busy with fishing; fish restaurants; the "Blackout” restaurant- which is at the "Na laga’at” (please touch) Center- which is run by deaf and blind staff and which also holds various shows; an abundance of galleries and art complexes, such as Warehouse 2 where exhibitions and various art displays are presented. There is also Warehouse 1 here, which spreads over 5,500 square meters, that has served in the past as the Jaffa oranges factory and is now undergoing renovation works on its way to becoming a business, art and entertainment center.

Along the coast of the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, spreading over 200 dunams of green gassy hills is the Jaffa Slope Park, one of Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s most beautiful parks. The Jaffa Slope Park, which stretches between the Jaffa Port on the north and the Aliyah Hill on the south, used to serve as a dump yard for construction waste for many years and was an environmental hazard and a center for criminal activity. Since the park opened in 2010, after extensive renovation works, this place turned into a popular and busy recreational site. Along this beautiful park passes a promenade which serves as a wharf for fishermen, a place for sportive walks, bicycle rides, leisurely walks or sitting on the lookout benches in front of the sea. The Jaffa Slope Park is also great for Barbeques and for families with children, who can enjoy the amusement facilities that are provided here.