Tour Itinerary
Day 1 TEL AVIV/ Caesarea
Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel and meet and assist. Transfer from the airport to the city of Caesarea for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2 Caesarea - Mount Carmel-Meggido-Tsipori
Drive to Caesarea- Visit all the archaeological sites such as the Roman
Amphitheatre, hippodrome and aqueduct watch a film on the history and remains of this famous port city walking through the old harbor.
Visit Mt. Carmel Al Muhraqa where Elijah challenged King Ahab and the prophets of Baal.
Drive through the Jezreel Valley to Megiddo the Armageddon Battlefield, where archaeologists have unearthed 20 levels of civilization.
Visit Tsippori.
Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3 Mt of Beatitudes/Tabgha/Primacy of St.Peter/Magdala/Capernaum/Bethsaida
Drive to Mt of Beatitudes site of the Sermon on the Mount. Then to Tabgha the site of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes. Then visit the Primacy of Peter.
Visit Magdala, see the natural amphitheater and continue to visit the Valley of Doves then to Capernaum, the main center for Jesus’ teachings and healings and where Peter’s house has been discovered along with the synagogue where Jesus taught.
Then to Bethsaida where Jesus healed the Blind man.
Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4 Tiberias – Sea of Galilee- Ginossar –Jordan River-Mt.Arbel
Galilee Boat Ride at the Sea of Galilee to Ginossar to see Jesus Ancient Boat.
Drive to the Jordan River Baptismal site – end the day at the top of Mt Arbel.which is a mountain in The Lower Galilee near Tiberias in Israel, with high cliffs, views of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, a cave-fortress, and ruins of an ancient synagogue. Mount Arbel sits across from Mount Nitai; their cliffs were created as a result of the geological processes leading to the creation of the Jordan Rift Valley.
Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5 Golan Heights- Caesarea Philippi-Corazim -Hatzor
Drive to the Golan Heights, visit Caesarea Philippi, Corazim and Hatzor.
Drive to the Dan stop and visit the Altar, then Banias and end the day with a visit to Kursi.
Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6 Tiberias-Beit Shean- -Qumran- Ein Gedi and Dead Sea
Drive to Beit Shean visit archaeological sites, including spring of Herod Sythopolis
and the Amphitheater, continue through the Jordan Valley.
Dead Sea region visit Qumran where the dead scrolls were found and visit the excavation of the Essenes ruins and the Cave of the Scrolls.
(Swimming in Qumran is optional).
Proceedto visit Ein Gedi, “Spring of the Goat, an oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 7 Masada
Drive to Masada to ride on the cable car to the fortress at the mountain top for a visit and view. Drive to Samson, Tel Shamesh, Elah Valley is where the Israelites camped when David fought Goliath then proceed to Adullam. Then to western Judean hills and continue to visit Herodion.
Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8 Mt Of Olives and all its churches- Gethsemane Garden.
Drive to the Mt. of Olives visit the church of Pater Noster, Church of the Ascension, Dominus Flavit Where you can sit on the ground or benches and have your private prayers and meditations, then descend down and visit the Church of all Nations and walk to the garden of Gethsemane to visit and walk through.
Drive to the Kidron Valley and city of David to see the temple’s excavations and proceed to walk into Hezekiah’s Tunnels, you can walk through the tunnel where you will come out at the Pool of Siloam.
Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 9 Old City of Jerusalem -Temple MT Area-Western Wall- Jewish Quarter
Visit the Temple Mount Area, Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall. Visit St. Anne Church and the Pool of Bethesda See the Church of Flagellation, Ecce Homo Arch. Walk through the footsteps of Jesus ‘Via Dolorosa’ proceed to (Calvary and Holy Sepulcher).
Visit the Davidson Center.
Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 10 Garden Tomb –Ein Karem- Israel Museum
Visit the Garden Tomb then drive to Ein Karem to visit the church of Visitation and Church of John the Baptist.
New City of Jerusalem visit the Israel Museum- see the Shrine of the book and the Dead Sea scrolls.
Visit the Tower of David (Light and Sound Show) optional.
Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 11 Jericho - Departure
Jericho the old city, el Sultan and drive to Wadi Qelt, to get the best and closest view
of the Monastery of St. George.
Transfer to the Airport for Departure.