This is a reload of the already archived cache GC285P9.
Even though the other caches in the series (1/3 and 2/3) have already been archived you should walk at least in the wadi to the cave spring.
Closeby is also a cache: GCBC1TJ
But anyway here the original listing, because the cache is already located at this location:
(Additional info for the FTF-hunters: Please ignore the logs, which are already in this logbook, dated before this publish belongs to the previous cache)
The Siah Wadi trail is a trail located in Haifa near Carmelia neighbourhood. It contains an archeological nature park, two springs and an orchard.
The trail is 2.5KM long, and can be done on foot only.
This cache is one of 3 caches hidden in this trail.
Starting point: Lotus St. opposite house no. 15, above the Sports Hall and the Herzl School.
Go down to the right, following the black markings to the asphalt path, and from there down a flight of steps into the Wadi itself, passing the school from the right.
In the way, you will see lots of typical Carmel trees, plants and beautiful flowers. Some of them are rare.
After about 600 metres down the Wadi, you will come to a well. The first cache is located nearby. About 200 meters later, you will see a beautiful spring on the left side, hiding in a row of cypress trees. Many names have been given to this spring. It was formerly known as ‘the Spring of Elijah’. But it is also well known as the ‘Faraj Spring’, which means ‘the Spring of Salvation’. Today it is called ‘Ayin Meshotetim’ or ‘the Wandering Spring’. Opposite it, on the northern side, we can see the two-storeyed cave, which was used by the Nazarenes, who were hermits who settled in the Nazarene Cave on the Carmel.
During Crusader times a monastery and church were built here, whose remains can be seen until this very day (cache 2/3). Continue to go down along the path and you will encounter a pool filled with water coming from a pipe. This is ‘Ayn Siah’ (The Siah Spring) from which the entire Wadi takes its name. Cache 3/3 is located near this spring. Above us, the slope is dotted with patches of yellow and red. These are called wolf’s milk plant bushes, a rare plant which exists in Israel only on the western Carmel. Another few steps and we reach a long flight of about three hundred steps, leading to the village of Kababir.
Here we shall reach the top of an orchard which was built out of stone fences and flower beds encased in concrete, between which there are open irrigation channels which drain into small pools. This is the Aziz Khayat Orchard. Khayat was one of the richest people who lived in Haifa during the Mandate Period. The Haifa Municipality and the Keren Kayamet l-Israel (The Jewish National Fund, or JNF) have recently completed a program of reconstructing and redeveloping the Wadi.
From there, you can go down to the cemetery, go back to the Lotus st., or take the stairs to go to Kababir.
Another way for doing this trail is to up from the cemetery Brosh gate.
*This cache is harder to find (so says the number of DNFs/founds). Therefore I have updated the difficulty to 3*