Desert Shade
צל מדבר
Guest house · No kosher certificate
An eco-lodge of earth-and-canvas cabins on the hills between Mitzpe Ramon and the crater cliff, hosting travellers since 1990, with a boutique winery of its own.
Desert Shade is a lodge on the small hills between Mitzpe Ramon and the cliff of the Makhtesh Ramon crater, looking straight onto the crater and the Negev Highlands. It began in 1990, when Ziv Spector, then a Tel Aviv entrepreneur, came to the town looking for a place to connect travellers with the desert, and by its own account it has done so for more than 30 years. Guests sleep in 25 air-conditioned ohalogs, cabins of smart fabric and earth walls built of local soil, stone and recycled materials, for couples, families and groups. There are a stone gallery with big windows onto the crater, where breakfast is served, terraces for the sunrise and the stars, a Bedouin tent of goat hair, campfire corners and a studio for yoga, workshops and retreats, and a few steps from the gate the sculpture park along the cliff. Its small boutique winery, Nabato, makes wine at the farm.
At a glance
- Check-in
- From 16:00
- Check-out
- By 11:00, on Saturday by 12:00
- Meals
- No meals included
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Wheelchair
- accessible parking, step-free access for wheelchairs and accessible toilets, all on the ground floor
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Wi-Fi
- Family rooms
- Workshops and shows for guests
Rooms
Double ohalog
Sleeps up to 2
Air-conditioned, with an en-suite bathroom, a private bathroom nearby, or private toilets and shared showers in the central block, depending on the unit.
Family ohalog
Sleeps up to 5
For four or five guests, air-conditioned; some face the crater in the front row.
Large ohalog
Sleeps up to 6
Arif and Nekarot, for up to six, with private toilets in the central block and shared showers.
Desert igloo
1 room · Sleeps up to 5
Dla'at, for up to five, air-conditioned.
Studio 70
1 room · Sleeps up to 8
For up to eight, with a private bathroom nearby.
Every unit is air-conditioned and none includes breakfast. The ohalog, by the lodge's account, is a tent of smart fabric on earth walls that hold the day's heat for the night.
Read from desert-shade.com on 2026-10-05. Prices and free rooms on its booking page
Your stay
| Check-in | 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Check-out | 11:00 |
| Check-out on Saturday | 12:00 |
Guests are received from 16:00 to 20:00 only; another arrival or departure time is by arrangement and may cost extra. A weekend is Thursday to Saturday, with no check-in on Saturday.
- Meals: No meals includedThe base price is for the bed only. Breakfast is served in the stone gallery, and the guest kitchenette has a gas hob but no fridge.
- Families: Family cabins sleep four or five and the largest units up to eight; a baby under two stays free in the parents' bed, and there is no separate rate for children.
- Pets: Not allowed
- Cancellation: Free within 24 hours of booking, unless the stay begins within 72 hours; 50% from nine days to 72 hours before the stay, and the full price within 72 hours or for a no-show.
As published on desert-shade.com, read 2026-10-05.
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Desert Shade itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram
Location
1 KKL Boulevard, Mitzpe Ramon
- Bus: Nearest stop 475 m
- Parking: Accessible parking listedCars cannot drive into the lodging area; the car park is about 100 metres from it.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-05.
Questions
About Desert Shade
- Its own website and social pagesThe rooms and the rules on this page come from the business's own site.
InstagramFacebookdesert-shade.com
Desert Shade is a guest house at 1 KKL Boulevard in Mitzpe Ramon, in the Southern District. Behind it: founder Ziv Spector.
It has 5 kinds of room.
Check-in is at 16:00 and check-out at 11:00. Guests are received from 16:00 to 20:00 only; another arrival or departure time is by arrangement and may cost extra. A weekend is Thursday to Saturday, with no check-in on Saturday. Meals: no meals included. It does not take pets.
The nearest bus stops are שדרות קק״ל/דרך צלילי המדבר (475 m). Cars cannot drive into the lodging area; the car park is about 100 metres from it.
Not on the Mitzpe Ramon religious council's list of supervised businesses, on the council's own website or on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, both read on 5 October 2026, and its own pages show no certificate. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on desert-shade.com.
Mitzpe Ramon does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
צל מדבר מזמינים אתכם לחוויה יחודית בארץ המכתשים. החווה שוכנת בין הגבעות הסמוכות לעיירה מצפה רמון ומשקיפה הישר למכתש רמון והרי הנגב הגבוה.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- Not on the Mitzpe Ramon religious council's list of supervised businesses, on the council's own website or on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, both read on 5 October 2026, and its own pages show no certificate. mdmp.org.il2026-10-05
- Accessibility statement
- Listed as wheelchair accessible desert-shade.com2026-10-05
- Companies Registrar
- Its website's copyright line names the Desert Shade group (קבוצת צל מדבר) but no company. The Companies Registrar lists two companies of the name: צל מדבר תירות סביבתית (1996) בע"מ, active, and צל מדבר תיירות מדברית (1989) בע"מ, in voluntary liquidation; the site does not say whether either runs it. data.gov.il2026-10-05
- Municipal business licence
- Mitzpe Ramon's local council publishes a business licensing page with the department's contacts, its uniform specification and a draft licensing guide put out for public comment in February 2026, but no list of licensed businesses; none is on data.gov.il either. mitzpe-ramon.muni.il2026-10-05
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | צל מדבר / Desert Shade | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 1 KKL Boulevard | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 30.6173524, 34.8060631 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-658-6229 | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | Mobile 054-540-0195 | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | desert-shade.com | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from desert-shade.com | desert-shade.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Check-in and check-out | Check-in 16:00, check-out 11:00 (12:00 on Saturday). | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Meals | No meals included | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Cancellation | Free within 24 hours of booking, unless the stay begins within 72 hours; 50% from nine days to 72 hours before the stay, and the full price within 72 hours or for a no-show. | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Rooms | 5 kinds of room | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from desert-shade.com | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | mdmp.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | accessible parking, step-free access for wheelchairs and accessible toilets, all on the ground floor | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Cars cannot drive into the lodging area; the car park is about 100 metres from it. | desert-shade.com | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | שדרות קק״ל/דרך צלילי המדבר 475 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its website's copyright line names the Desert Shade group (קבוצת צל מדבר) but no company. The Companies Registrar lists two companies of the name: צל מדבר תירות סביבתית (1996) בע"מ, active, and צל מדבר תיירות מדברית (1989) בע"מ, in voluntary liquidation; the site does not say whether either runs it. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Mitzpe Ramon's local council publishes a business licensing page with the department's contacts, its uniform specification and a draft licensing guide put out for public comment in February 2026, but no list of licensed businesses; none is on data.gov.il either. | mitzpe-ramon.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from the lodge's website | desert-shade.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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