ez-zerka

Updated: May 10, 2025

Here is the famous little river, a swift, singing current of gray-blue water Nahr ez-Zerka "blue river," the Arabs call it dashing and swirling merrily between the thickets of willows and tamaracks and oleanders that border it. The ford is rather deep, for the spring flood is on; but our horses splash through gaily, scattering the water around them in showers which glitter in the sunshine.

Henry Van Dyke - Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit