The Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv is a stunning museum spread across a beautiful campus in the Ramat Aviv district of the city, overlooking the center of Tel Aviv. The museum has an amazing array of displays relating to archaeology, judaica, ethnography, history and culture and arts and crafts, each housed in a pavilion, of which there are many spread across the museum site, centered around an archaeological site.

Tel Aviv might not be a huge city but there are many many diverse neighborhoods. Here is our guide to the five parts of town you’ll want to make sure you don’t miss when you visit Tel Aviv. From the UNESCO World Heritage Site that is the White City of Tel Aviv, to the gritty, bohemian Florentin district, and the uber-trendy Neve Tzedek. And from ancient port of Jaffa, to the modern Tel Aviv Port, there are some amazingly diverse parts of this city, all of which fall within a short distance of each other, and offer an experience which is uniquely different.

Tel Aviv’s Soho is how many dub Florentin, an old neighborhood of Tel Aviv which hasnt yet seen the same large-scale gentrification as the likes of its neighbor Neve Tzedek. With a mixed, predominantly poor and transient population, yet with a growing yuppie presence, and its location out on the edge of the first Hebrew City, Florentin is a neighborhood literally and symbolically on the margins, an area of contradictions and convergences. It isn’t for everyone, but it is a stark contrast to the modern Tel Aviv which dominates the rest of this city. The area has recently become known for its nightlife.

There are a great selection of regular tours of Tel Aviv: walking tours, bus tours, and even segway tours of the city. Whether your interest is specific to topics such as architecture, food, or style and fashion, for which there are specific tours being run (which provide unique insights into the culture of the city), or you have a more varied palette and would prefer a more classical tour of the city, we’ve compiled some of the best options for Tel Aviv tours.

Here are 5 travel tips for tourists in Tel Aviv, these are not major sites or important Tel Aviv landmarks but simply things to do in Tel Aviv that the average tourist would miss unless a local Israeli pointed them out to them. They are also small enjoyable extras that might give a Tel Aviv tourist a more unique travel experience.

From the Carmel Market and Jaffa Flea Market, to modern malls such as the Azrieli Center Mall and Dizengoff Center, the upmarket enclaves of Kikar Hamedina and Ramat Aviv Mall, and boutique and artisan streets such as Nachalat Binyamin, and Gan HaHashmal, the shopping in Tel Aviv is great, with a fantastic mixture of international labels and local brands, yet without totally pushing away smaller designers, individual retailers, and boutiques.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is Israel’s largest art museum, with a large collection of permanent exhibits as well as temporary exhibits. In November 2011, the new 19,000sq meter Herta and Paul Amir Building opened to the public, transforming the visitor experience of the museum which originally opened in 1932, before even the state of Israel was established! The museum shows the works of both Israeli and international artists including impressionism and post-impressionism. Permanently on display include the works of Cezanne, Chagall, Dali, Monet, Henri Moore, Auguste Rodin, Archipenko, Picasso, Klimt, Kadinsky. If you want to go to just one traditional art museum when in Israel, make it this one!

On the outskirts of Tel Aviv lies the beautifully tranquil Yarkon Park (Ganei Yehoshua). What Central Park is to New York, the Yarkon Park is the green lung of Tel Aviv and straddles the Yarkon River in the north of the city. With a Rock Park, Tropical Garden, Petting Zoo, among the beauty its a great place to spend some time away from the hustle and bustle.

Holon a city just south of Tel Aviv is perhaps the last place you would expect to find a leading international design museum, but Design Museum Holon is just that, an architectural masterpiece in the center of this city, it is a state of the art museum dedicated to everything design, using the latest in multimedia and interactivity to give guests an amazing experience. Opened in 2010, the Design Museum Holon has regularly changing exhibitions relating to contemporary design from Israel and around the world.

Jaffa is the ancient port out of which modern day Tel Aviv has grown. The Old Port of Jaffa is reputed to be one of the oldest ports in the world, notably being the port from which Jonah set off in the famous Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. Its long and fascinating history as strategic port in the Eastern Mediterranean continued until only recently when new ports were built south of Tel Aviv in Ashdod and north in Haifa, to cater for modern-day shipping methods. Today the port is used largely by local fishermen who continue the centuries old tradition of the area.