Just get there. in Tel Aviv on any summer day to understand why the most international city of Israel is considered the California of the Mediterranean, which has long entered radar sportsmen and those who love active holidays. Wherever crowded beaches of beach boys (and girls), parks full of outdoor sports enthusiasts and 70 kilometers of cycle paths that cross the city long and wide.
Not to mention the dense calendar of races and sporting events that recall fans and champions from the middle of the world. including the Israeli and international beach volleyball and ormai championships famous Tel Aviv Marathon, which runs in spring and is combined with the Half Marathon and a race of 10 km. In short, the perfect destination where you can get rid of no stop from morning to evening, practicing your favourite sport or learning a new one, having fun and making new friends
Yarkon Park, the outdoor temple
Also here in the morning it has gold in the mouth, so much worth taking advantage of it with a nice breakfast at the Port, in one of the many rooms overlooking the long promenade in teak by the sea, where there is already who rubs on rollerblades or by bicycle. With a short walk, so much to warm your muscles, you can then reach Ganei Yehoshua, that the locals commonly call Yarkon Park. Not only is it the largest city park, a green lung of dozens of hectares of nature crossed by the Yarkon River and a picturesque pond.
In fact, it is a dirt playground, where you can practice any possible outdoor activities, or almost. Rent a bike along the cycle paths, to discover the many attractions of the park, from the rocky garden to the tropical one, shaded by palm trees. Would you like to refresh yourself? Then head towards the water park, one of the largest in Israel, where you can wander through water slides and wave pools.
Or rent a pedal boat, a rowboat or a kajak (depending on what you can use best) and take a relaxing ride on the pond or along the river that goes down to the sea. If you prefer something more adrenaline, pointing towards Sportec, a sports center entirely dedicated to outdoors, where you can try climbing on a rock gym, play basketball, football or throw yourself on the track with rollerblades or skateboard.
Sea, beaches and lots of fun
In Tel Aviv "life is a beach", or at least here people spend most of the day on the beach. And how to give it wrong, since also the prestigious Lonely Planet guide has inserted about 14 kilometers of sandstone Tel Aviv in the top ten of the most beautiful beaches of the world, after those of Barcelona, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Clean, equipped, equipped, equipped with changing rooms and showers made safe by the presence of lifeguard, they are always very crowded, especially on Saturday.
But not all beaches are the same. Gordon-Frishman Beach is the young and cool beach par excellence; sportsmen have their meeting point in Dolphin Beach, near the Delfinario, where there is also a nautical center; while Alma Beach, the southernmost, with strong marine currents, is the paradise of surfers along with Hilton beach, in front of the hotel of the same name, also known as the gay-friendly.
Just take a look to understand that surfing is definitely the most practiced sport from these parts, but on windy days you will see the sea invaded also by a myriad of multicolored sails of windsurfing and kytesurfing, which is really crumbling in the last seasons. If you want to try yourself too, you can rent all the equipment, and possibly take lessons, at nautical center near the Delfinario.
Alternatively, you can always dedicate yourself to the classic beach games, such as beach volleyball and matkot, considered the national game. Similar to our drum, it has no rules, no winners or won and is played by everyone, but just everyone, young, old and children. You try, too, and I bet you can't stop.
