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Keep to the reserve rules and stay on the marked trails.
Nahal Samar in the southern Golan, about 4 km, flows into Nahal Meitzar beyond the system fence. Its lower part has three falls: 16, 18 and 24 m.
At a glance
- Tallest waterfall
- 24 m
- Number of waterfalls
- 3
- Circular route:
- No
- Reserve:
- Yes
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Meeting point (parking)
Start of the falls section
The meeting point is the parking spot. You continue on foot from here.
Coordinates: 32.71460, 35.69215
About
The stream starts in the fields and orchards east of Mevo Hama, near the Golan Trail, and small springs rise in the central channel. About five hundred and fifty metres from its head is a short, low limestone gorge with a few cascades of two to five metres, which the book says are passable. Then a small spring, and about two hundred and thirty metres after it a pair of falls in a bed blocked by vegetation, which the book says is impassable. Below them the stream runs between steep banks with animal paths, opens into a real canyon, and a gully joins from the north.
About one thousand six hundred metres after the junction comes a short series of three falls: fall A, sixteen metres, vertical crumbling basalt; fall B, eighteen metres, right after it; and fall C, twenty-four metres, in limestone, with an exposed head on smooth rock. About a hundred metres after it the stream reaches the system fence and passes under it, and beyond the fence it joins Nahal Meitzar above the Yarmuk canyon.
Descent profile
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Waterfalls(3)
| # | Name | Height | Obstacle | Profile | Landing | Anchor | Bolts and stations | Rope | From previous | Details |
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| 1 | ื | Height: 16 m | Waterfall / rappel | Vertical | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | |
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| 2 | ื | Height: 18 m | Waterfall / rappel | Vertical | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | |
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| 3 | ื | Height: 24 m | Waterfall / rappel | Vertical | Dry | โ | โ | โ | โ | |
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Points on the map
- First waterfallPrimaryStart of the falls section
32.71460, 35.69215
- Route endStream passes under the system fence in culverts
32.71396, 35.69531
- LandmarkHead of the western channel
32.72909, 35.66676
- LandmarkNorthern gully junction
32.72503, 35.68195
Safety
Crumbling basalt at falls A and B; the head of fall C is exposed on smooth rock; impassable thicket in the upper part; no exit described before the system fence.
Data sources
The information on this page was collected from these sources.
- Based on the Hebrew guidebook "Golan Heights Streams" by Ronen Kalimi (2026)
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