The Alpaca Farm
The Wine Route of the Negev
Outdoor adventures
Experience the depths of the negev desert including the spice route and ramon crater along the most picturesque routes by jeep, camel or hiking. short negev tours depart daily. (http://desertecotours.com...)
Treks of various lengths can be arranged in and around the crater. There are many strange rock formations in odd colors to be seen, as well as desert animals including the nearly tame ibex who congregate around tourists, looking for handouts.
Astronomy - Tel Aviv University's Wise Observatory
Tel Aviv University's Wise Observatory is here. The Negev has the darkest skies in Israel.
Hangar Adama Dance School
Join the classes of the Dance School that is running 3 days a week Sunday-Tuesday: Yoga, Air acrobatics, Modern Dance, Contact Improvisation etc. Adama also organizes festivals on the main Jewish holidays.
Rappelling
You can rappel from the edge of the crater. Not a very long rappel, but great views.
hiking
The Ramon Crater is an amazing place to go hiking, there are many one-day hikes and some multiple-day hikes.
Before starting a hike please go to the visitor center in Mitzpe Ramon and inform a ranger about your hike and route. Official hiking trails are well marked. Each hiking trail has its own color. The markings are as fallowed: a white stripe then a stripe in the color of the trail and then a white stripe again, for example, white, blue, white. It forbidden to hike off the trails and to hike after sun down. These hiking rules apply for the rest of Israel.
A nice short hike starts at the Minsara and is marked in green. The Minsara is interesting for geologists. Their are two options for this hike, option one is a hike that goes up the Minsara hill and comes back down it is approximately 1km and is an easy hike. Option two is a hike that goes up to Mitzpe Ramon. It is approximately 6km long and is moderate to hard.
The Har Ardon trail is very beautiful, it is moderate to hard. One can start form the Be'erot camping site or on the black trail this will connect to the blue trail that will finish at the Givat Charut parking, from there follow the black trail back to the Be'erot camping site. This trail is approximately 11km long. One can also start directly from the Givat Charut parking and finishes at the parking on bottom of Har Ardon this trail is approximately 5km long.
For any multi day hikes please consult a ranger in the Mitzpe Ramon visitor center.
camping
In Israel one is only allowed to camp in designated camping areas, all of the camping sites in Israel are on a first come first serve bases. Most of the designated camping sites in nature reserves in Israel have no facilities such as running water, toilets, etc. In most cases camp fires are allowed, use only wood from outside the nature reserve as burning trees or plants that grow in the reserve is prohibited even if they are dead.
The Be'erot camping site has most of the facilities that one would need, it has an open Bedouin tent where one can order food or drink a cup of Bedouin tea or coffee for a fee. It also has running water, and reasonable toilets. If you are planing on camping in Be'erot take in to consideration that you will have to pay a fee, for more information about this fee ask at the Mitzpe Ramon visitor center. This site is open for cars.
The camping site in Bikat Machmal is comfortable but has no facilities, fee in not required for this camp site. This site is also open for cars but please respect the environment and the wildlife keep the camp site clean and quiet.