Guided Tour 8 Days 7 Nights, STARTING FROM JERUSALEM

Guided Tour 8 Days 7 Nights, STARTING FROM JERUSALEM

8 Days Tour 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 – Gethsemane 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 to visit the Nativity church the birthplace 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 for Egypt. Back to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3

Today we are going to the via Dolorosa (the way of the cross). We'll start it from Lion's 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 remnants 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. On 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 – Capernaum 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 these secret paths (New Site) - Continue to St. Mary's fountain / Spring of water.

After having lunch we'll continue to Mt. Tabor to visit the church of the transfiguration. Back to Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

Day 7

Check out the hotel. Visiting the traditional site of Mt. of Precipice in Nazareth. Continue to the crusader's city Acre (Akko) a well-known 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 swimming. Only for 1 hour. We continue to Caesarea to see the great   Aquaduct since King Herod's 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 cedarwood coming from Lebanon to build his first Temple in Jerusalem.  

Check-in hotel in Tel Aviv. Dinner & OverNight.

Day 8

Transfer to Ben Gurion / TLV airport to your destination.