The higher one ascends, spectacular views sweepingly open up over the tree tops and high-rise buildings — onward, and upward north along the flat as a pancake coastal plain towards the mountain range-border with Lebanon in the relatively near distance.

First and foremost coming in to view from above is the gigantic Haifa port, sitting snuggly at the bottom of the mountain.

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