This reserve can be a shorter walk and is therefore the busier in terms of visitors. There is plenty of acacia and other scrub here. I saw shrikes and bush robins here very easily. Little Green Bee-eaters are common around the dried river bed. Again there is an entrance fee for this reserve.
Lockers are available for valuables and there is a shop for souvenirs and refreshments.
This is a farming community known as a moshav. It is reached from the main Arava road which runs north and south with Eilat at the southern end. Neot is signposted to the left as you are going south past the southern end of the Dead Sea. If you reach the Dimona turning then you have gone too far. The area of acacias near this junction to Neot is known as Wadi Zin and an early morning walk round here was very productive.