A "roller coaster" jeep tour in the Jerusalem mountains. In winter, add mud and more running water streams...The Jerusalem mountains are "cut" by several main streams, resulting in challenging ups and downs while tracking from north to south and back. During rainy winter days, some or all the streams will flow, offering crossing challenges and natural attraction. Most of the mountain sides are covered with JNF man-planted forest trees and natural Mediterranean wild flowers.

A sharp eye will notice the ancient stone formations of terraces...These were conceived 3000 years ago, by king Solomon, seeking to develop mountain agriculture and food supply to the growing capital Jerusalem. This system was used by Arab farmers until the 1948 war of independence, so abandoned fruit tree clusters can yet be found among the pine woods.

By the 1947 UN partition plan for Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, the Jerusalem mountains were supposed to be under Arab control and so, were actually adversely used to inflict a food and water siege on 25% of the Jews in Palestine, all living in Jerusalem. This was crucial for the way the 1948 ware of independence evolved and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict was shaped.

Back on the jeep track, there are small freshwater spring hidden in the mountains and in summer are most welcome by 4x4 or 2x2 trackers, some of which are on the famous Track of Israel from the Hermon mountain in the north, down to the blue coral riff at Eilat in the south (a total of over 900 k"m.