HOLY LAND – 8 DAYS, STARTING FROM JERUSALEM.

 

 

Day 1:  Meet & Assist by the tour guide and the bus driver. Transfer

            To your hotel in Jerusalem .Check in your hotel ,dinner & overnight.

 

Day 2:  Today destination will be Mount of Olives holy sites: Ascension – Pater

             Noster – The graves yard on Mt. Of Olives – Dominus Flevit – Getsemane

             Garden and church – Mary's Tomb and the cave of the disciples. Transfer

             To Ein Karem to visit the church of John the Baptist. Later we continue to       

             Bethlehem to visit the Shepherds field and to have a holy mass their.

             After holy mass we'll go toVisit the Nativity church the birth place of Jesus   

             Christ. Then we'll proceed (if we have enough time) To the "Milk Grotto"        

             Church nearby the "Nativity" church to visit the grotto where St. Mary fed      

             Jesus before leaving to Egypt . Back to your hotel for dinner and over night.

 

Day 3:  Today we are going to the via dolorosa (the way of the cross). We'll start it

             From the Lions gate or St. Steven's gate. We'll visit St. Anne's church and the

             Pool of Bethesda and then we continue in the way of the cross till the holy

             Sepulchre church to visit the Golgotha & the holy tomb. After that we

             Continue walking to Mt. Zion holy sites:

             The last supper room, Dormition church of Mary & King David tomb.

             We will continue to St. Peter's Ingallicantu church where Peter denied Jesus

             3 times. After that we will walk to the wailing wall the last remain from the

             Temple mount. Continue to our hotel in Jerusalem for dinner and overnight.

             (This is the last night in Jerusalem).

 

Day 4: Leaving Jerusalem to Bethany to see Lazarus tomb / church. Continue to

            Jericho Area to have a wonderful panoramic view of St. George monastery

            Located in Wadi Qelt. Continue to Ein Bokek a resort area to try floating on

            The surface of the "Dead Sea".

            Back to Jericho . In our way back we are going to see (only from the bus)

           " Qumran " where the Scrolls of the old testament were found by an incident in

           1947. We'll see the Caves only from the bus (We might visit the "AHAVA"   

           Factory Industrial zone where we can buy the Dead Sea well known products.

           Drive to Jericho to see the Sycamore tree and Mt. of Temptation . Continue

           To your hotel in Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

 

Day 5: Today we'll visit the northern part of Israel ,to the Galilee area. We'll visit the

            Baptism Site on the Jordan river "Yardenit" – Tabgha, the multiplication of

            Fish & Loaves – St. Peter primacy church – Mt. Of Beatitudes – Capernahum

            To see the house of St. Peter – Riding Jesus boat replica. Then we continue to

            Nazareth but in our way we'll  visit the church of the wedding in Cana where

            Jesus made his first miracle of turning the water into wine during the wedding

            party. Dinner & Overnight in Nazareth .

 

Day 6: Today we are going to visit Nazareth Annunciation church where St. Mary got

            The good news from the angel Gabriel – St. Joseph church where St. Joseph

            Had his carpentry and also lived together with Mary and Jesus (Holy family

            Church is also called) – The Synagogue Church where Jesus used to pray and

            where he read from the Isaiah book about the prophecy of his coming - The

            new caves system found beneath the earth where people those days used this

            secret pathes (New Site) - Continue to St. Mary's fountain / Spring of water.

            After having the lunch we'll continue to Mt. Tabor to visit the church of the

            transfiguration. Back to Nazareth for dinner and over night.

 

Day 7:  Check out the hotel. Visiting the traditional site of Mt. of Precipice in   

            Nazareth. Continue to the crusaders city Acre (Akko) a wellknown city port   

            During the middle ages (Crusaders Kingdom) - Continue to Haifa a very nice   

            City to see the Cave of the prophet Elijah, Stella Maris, The Bahai Gardens,    

            The German Quarter and a break at the Sea Shore promenade for swimmimg   

            Only for 1 hour. We continue to Caesarea to see the great Aquaduct since

            King Herods time.Then we continue to Jaffa - Tel Aviv city to visit the church   

            Of St. Peter.Jaffa or Joppa is a Sea Port city where Jonah sailed to Tarshish     

            And was swallowed by the whale. And also where King Solomon got the    

            Cedar wood coming from Lebanon to built his first Temple in Jerusalem.    

            Check in hotel in Tel Aviv. Dinner & Over Night.

 

Day 8: Transfer to Ben Gurion / TLV airport to your destination.