About
About Raanan's tours and this site
Raanan’s tours is my internet site through which I try to find and connect with you, to see if you’d like to join one of my tours. If you’ve met me, you’ve met Raanan’s tours. It’s a pretty small company.
I have two types of tours – virtual tours and physical tours. If you plan to come to Israel and you consider checking out my tours and myself as your guide, please take a look at my reviews, then contact me and we’ll discuss your plans and my suggested itienerary.
But if you’re open to try one of my remote virtual tours, please check out my virtual tours, decide if you’d like to join a GROUP TOUR (for 18$) make the payment and book a tour at any time of your convenience. You can first book a tour and then pay, but in any case, your booking will be confirmed after payment has been received.
If you’d like a PRIVATE TOUR (for 185$) please contact me so that we schedule the tour together, so that I can cancel a scheduled group tour that has not yet been booked.
Who am I?
My name is Raanan, which to most of you who are not fluent in Hebrew, will sound strange. So let me make it easy for you – Raanan in Hebrew means fresh, so just call me FRESH and I’ll respond.
Several decades ago I served as a field guide and the director of the Ein Gedi Field Study Center, located on the shores of the Dead Sea. At these positions I focused on education and the protection of the very unique Judean Desert and the Dead Sea. And so the Dead Sea area, the Ein Gedi nature reserve and Massada were my home for five years, hence my extensive knowledge and acquaintance with them.
In the early 90’s I joined the newly formed Ministry of Environment. There I worked in several postitions in the planning department and as advisor to the Minister.
I coordinated the first Israeli policy for Sustainable Development of Israel, and the first Israeli policy for the reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and other environmental planning policies.
I then worked in a consulting firm in involved in international projects funded by the European Union.
For the past few years I have returned to guiding tours physically on the ground, and since the Corona epidemic, virtual tours.
I focus heavily on virtual tours as after having carried out more than 500 such tours independently and with Amazon Explore, I trully believe that this is a great way to get an engaging and condensed experience at a time and location of your convenience and for a fraction of the cost and time of physically visiting Israel.
My goal is for you to enjoy yourself during the tour, get some new knowledge that will bring you to say at the end of the tour – “Wow, that was neat” or something like that.
By the way, people actually say that after touring with me.
