Travel for
Christians, BIBLE LAND TOUR OF
ISRAEL
Tour Includes:
Arrival and departure transfers.
7 nights hotel accommodation on bed & breakfast basis.
5 full days of group touring in an air conditioned vehicle with an English
speaking licensed driver-guide.
All entrance fees to sites visited on tour.
Not Included:
Lunches, dinners not mentioned, tips, insurance
Samples of Tour Cost
Itinerary :
Monday :
Arrival to airport and transfer to Jerusalem for overnight.
Tuesday :
Jerusalem-sightseeing of the new city
Drive to Mt' Scopus for a view of Jerusalem, then to the Garden of Gethsemane
and Church of the Agony. Drive to Mt' Zion for a visit to the tomb of King
David, the Room of the Last Supper and Dormition Abbey. Sightseeing in the new
city including the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book, with the famous Dead
Sea scrolls, new Supreme Court bld. Mt' Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to
the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust). Then visit the model of
the Heordian city of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the Second Temple.
Visit the synagogue with Marc Chagall stained glass windows at the Hadassah
medical Center, then via Ein Karem (the birth place of John the Baptist). Return
to Hotel.
Wednesday :
Jerusalem (Old City) - Bethlehem*
Walk through the Jaffa Gate to the City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western
Wall, the Temple area, the colorful bazaars, Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher. Continue to Bethlehem* to visit Rachel's Tomb and the Church of
the Nativity and return to Jerusalem for overnight.
Thursday :
Jericho* - Tiberias - Galilee
Leave Jerusalem. Driving via Bethany to Jericho*, the oldest city in the world.
Visit the excavations and then continue northward via Jordan Valley and the new
settlements to Beit Shean. After a short visit proceed to Tiberias, the old
center of Jewish learning. Drive along the shores of the Sea of Galilee to
Capernaum to visit the ruins of the ancient synagogue. Continue to a Kibbutz
hotel for overnight.
Friday :
Upper Galilee and Golan Heights - Nazareth
Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram,
and the Druze villages. Via Banias, source of the Jordan River proceed to Kiryat
Shmone and the Hula Valley to Safed. city of the Kabala, to visit the old
synagogue and artists' colony and then to Nazareth to visit the Christian holy
sites. Return to the Kibbutz hotel for overnight
Saturday :
Acre - Haifa - Tel Aviv
Leave the Kibbutz hotel for Acre to visit the old, famous Crusader stronghold
and medieval fortifications. Continue to Haifa, sightseeing tour of Haifa,
including the Bahai Shrine. Persian Garden and Mount Carmel for a panoramic view
of the city. Proceed southwards to Caesarea to visit the Roman theater and the
Crusader fortress. Drive via Natanya to Tel Aviv.
Sunday :A
day at leisure in Tel Aviv.
Monday :Transfer
to the airport for departure
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