It boasts not only abundant water, fauna and flora in all shapes and sizes, but also one of the few places in Israel that has remained marshlands and where one can see a herd of water buffalo roaming in the gloaming.

With a plethora of new high rise areas springing up inland from Acre, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority’s En Afek Nature Reserve encompasses sources of the River Na’aman that flows through the Zebulun Valley before spilling into the sea near Haifa.

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