Ha’yarkon Park is also known as Ganei-Yehoshua (Joshua garden), in the midst of Tel-Aviv city, spreading over some 860 Acres alongside the Ha’yarkon river.
The park offers a variety of attractions to its visitors:
- Playgrounds,
- Walking paths,
- Biking routes,
- Various carriages for hire and a mini-bus tour for kids,
- A large artificial lake with rowing boats,
- A concert hall for large-scale performances,
- The ZAPARI – a zoological park for Parrots,
- The Memadyon – a water park,
- The Mill-House ruins site,
- A skate-park,
- A climbing wall attraction,
- And marvelous gardens to stroll through
- Or barbeque…
The park inhabits six sub-gardens, each unique and beautiful in its own style:
The Sons’ garden –in memory of the soldiers; sons of Tel-Aviv that had fallen at the various defense actions/wars of Israel;
The garden of Terror victims – in memory of 750 Tel-Aviv citizens that had fallen at terror acts as of 1860,
The Rock-garden, filled a variety of worldwide plants (some 3,700 species),
The cactuses garden, filled with various kinds of cactuses,
The trimmed-Garden, reflecting formal, classical and Mediterranean styles of gardening; put aside some archaeological finds,
The Tropical garden, offering a tropical green-house for tropical plants, a variety of orchids and fish pools.
