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YANIV EPHOD

Private Tours in Israel

Heb  Eng  Sp

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Shalom and welcome!

 

My name is Yaniv and I am a licensed tour guide living in Tel Aviv. I love people, nature and traveling, which makes tour guiding my dream job. 

 

I was born on a Kibbutz in the Negev and was hiking from the day I could walk. First the desert trails, followed by almost every part of Israel with my hiking loving family. When I grew up, I continued to explore Israel, but this time as a guide, leading others. At first, as a youth leader at  “The Working and Studying Youth” movement. Later on when I turned 18, as part of a youth leaders group (‘Gar’in Nahal’) as we volunteered for community work in the southern city of Sderot.

Finally, during my military service as a guide in the Nahal brigade. Throughout these experiences, I became deeply acquainted and as equally in love with the Israeli landscapes, sites and people.

 

My next traveling adventure took me to Costa Rica, to establish an hotel and nature resort combined with an animal rescue center. I managed the hotel reception, but my real passion was guiding tourists in the amazing cloud forest trails and over the adrenaline-rush zip lines. In 2013 I returned to Tel Aviv, Israel's most populous city and the country’s economic, technological and cultural center. Here I met my future wife and planned the next chapter in my life: intergating my love for peoples, stories and guiding by becoming a full time tour guide.

 

Over the next few years I fortified my knowledge of history, geography, architecture and culture. I’ve guided Families, groups and individuals in every part of Israel, from historical sites to natural trails. I specialize in graffiti street art, market food tours, Segway rides, vegan culture, start-up nation and ecology. I recently collaborated with Tel Aviv municipality by creating and guiding several tours in Jaffa’s port ecological innovation center, Jaffa galleries & street art and Ben Gurion Blvd. community center.

2020 saw me fulfilling yet another dream, as I was certified as a Licensed Israeli Tour Guide

 

As a guide, I want you to be part of the story. Let’s combine your interests with my experience and insights, to create the perfect holiday adventure. Together we can write a unique story, based upon passion for people, sites and events. Feel free to contact me for more.

Lehit’raot ! (see you in Hebrew)

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