There is a good long cable car ride from the top of the cliffs to a base area about half way down the cliffs. This area was an animal path in prehistoric times and then a marginally improved donkey-cart path for centuries but was leveled and expanded during world war II by the British for a train track between Haifa and coastal Lebanon.
The cable cars can take about 12 people at a time. One is going up while another is going down.
I took the image with me in the picture just to see if it would work.
The other picture shows a tunnel. This tunnel (once upon a time it was a tunnel that carried a railroad and still has the tracks in it) is actually a pretty good kosher restaurant. A big tour group was having a lunch buffet.
There are various stories told about this place. In one story, a young girl from Haifa was being taken to Tyre to be married to an older man she had never met. She threw herself off the cliffs into the waves and her signing is heard on still nights. Some of the caves are accessible from this level (including the one in the image - which is from the internet).
Rosh Hanikra has a good corporate website (with acoustics). The place is a national park owned by the government but services are contracted out (i.e., no park rangers, no government offices around).
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