DAY 1 Arrival at
Ben
Gurion
Airport
. Transfer to NATANYA / overnight
DAY 2
CAESAREA
MARITIME - HAIFA - NAZARETH -TIBERIAS
- Large Roman theatre, Crusader walls and harbor
-
HAIFA
/ Mt.Carmel (panoramic view, Stella Maris Church )
-
NAZARETH -
(
Church of the Annunciation,
St. Joseph
Church and
Old
City)
- TIBERIAS /
SEA
OF
GALILEE/Overnight
DAY 3
SEA OF GALILEE including Boat Ride and visit to
Holy
Sites
-
CAPERNAUM
(ancient synagogue)
-
CHURCH
OF
PRIMACY
- TABGHA - Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish
-
MT.
BEATITUDE -
chapel and panoramic view on the
Sea of Galilee
-
GOLAN HEIGHTS
– BANIAS (Caesarea Philippi)
- Return to the SEA OF GALILEE / Overnight
DAY 4 MT.TABOR - JORDAN VALLEY - JERUSALEM
- Church of the Transfiguration (Ascent and descent by taxis to the summit of Mt.Tabor).
- Drive through the
JORDAN
VALLEY
– via
JERICHO
to
JERUSALEM
-
MT
.
ZION with King David`s Tomb , Cenacle (Room of theLast Supper), Dormition Abbey
- Overnight in
Jerusalem
DAY 5
JERUSALEM
-
MT
.
of
OLIVES
– panoramic view and visit the holy sites including Gethsemane Basilica ( Church of all Nations) and Garden
- Visit the
OLD
CITY
including
Wailing Wall ,
Temple
Mount with
Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa Mosque
- St. Anne`s Church with Bethesda Pools, Ecce Homo with Lithostrotos, Via Dolorosa, Holy Sepulchre
- Bazaar
- Overnight in
Jerusalem
.
DAY 6
BETHLEHEM - EIN KAREM
- NEW CITY of JERUSALEM
- Church of the Nativity and
S
t.Chatherine
Church
- EIN KAREM (birth place of John the Baptist)
- Round-trip through the
NEW CITY
OF
JERUSALEM
- Hadassa Synagogue with the Chagall Windows
-
Israel
Museum
with the Shrine of the Book and the Menorah opposite the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
- On request we will arrange a visit to the Holocaust-Museum Yad Vashem.
- Overnight in
Jerusalem
DAY 7 DEAD SEA - QUMRAN - MASADA - EILAT
- Drive via WADI KELT (view on the St.George Monastery)
- Drive to the
DEAD
SEA
-
QUMRAN
(where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found)
- MASSADA (the last Jewish stronghold of the Zealots in the war against the Romans in 73 A.D. (ascent/descent by cable car)
- Possibility to "float" in the
Dead Sea
- Continue through the Arava to EILAT
DAY 8 EILAT - EGYPT
- After breakfast visit of the Underwater Observatory in EILAT
- Continue to TABA/border crossing to
EGYPT
- Drive through the
desert
of
SINAI
to NUWEIBA (swimming in the
Red Sea
)
- Continue to ST.CATHERINE MONASTERY
- Overnight in Sinai
DAY 9 MT. MOSES
- Before sunrise ascent to the summit of MT.MOSES (watch the sunrise)
- Descent to the
St.
Catherine Monastery for a visit
- Return via Taba to EILAT / overnight.
DAY 10 MITZPE RAMON – AVDAT - TEL AVIV
- AVDAT - Excavations of the Nabateans, Roman and
Byzantine
City
- BEER
SHEBA
to TEL AVIV/Overnight
DAY 11 Transfer to
BEN
GURION
AIRPORT
for departure flight.
