• Day 1 TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM

  Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. Transfer from the airport to the city of Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

• Day 2 JERUSALEM/BETHLEHEM

  Begin on the Mount of Olives for a panoramic view of the Old City of Jerusalem. Visit the Place of Ascension and the Pater Noster Church. Then drive to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity, built over the cave where Christ was born. Proceed on to Shepherd’s Field.

  Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

• Day 3 JERUSALEM/OLD CITY/JERICHO/QUMRAN/DEAD SEA

  Drive to Holy Eucharist at St. George’s Cathedral. Walk through the Walled City of Jerusalem. Enter through Herod’s Gate to visit the Crusaders’ Church of St. Anne, the Pool of Bethesda. Then proceed to the temple area, Mount Moriah, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac, the Dome of the Rock, the Mosque of El Aksa, and the Western Wall or Wailing Wall.

  Drive to Masada. Along the way, you will view the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Enjoy a swim in the Dead Sea.

  Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

• Day 4 CAESAREA/MT. CARMEL/HAIFA

  Leave Jerusalem via the coastal highway to Caesarea to visit the Roman theater, the water aqueduct, and the ruins of the Crusaders’ city. Continue to the city of Haifa, where you will ascend Mt. Carmel for a view of the Mediterranean Sea and harbor, see the Carmelite monastery and Elijah’s Cave, view the Baha’i temple and the hanging gardens.

  Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

• Day 5 NAZARETH

  Visit the Church of Annunciation, where the angel appeared to Mary and announced to her the birth of Christ. You will visit the synagogue where Jesus taught, Mary’s Well, and the Old Market. Continue to Beit She’an, one of the oldest cities of the ancient Near East.  It is one ofthe largest archaeological excavation sites in Israel.  The Philistine rulers displayed the bodies of King Saul and his sons upon their walls after they were killed in the Battle of Gilboa. Visit the theater, the Byzantine bathhouse, and the Roman temple.

  Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

• Day 6 SEA OF GALILEE/CAPERNAUM/MT. OF BEATITUDES

  Boat ride on the Sea of Galilee from Tiberias to Capernaum. Visit the ruins of the second-century synagogue and the house of Simon Peter, where our Lord lived after he was rejected in his hometown of Nazareth. Continue to Tabgha, where Christ performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and on to the Church of Primacy of St. Peter. Then proceed to the Mount of Beatitudes, where Christ gave the Sermon on the Mount.

  Tiberias/ Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

• Day 7 BEIT SHE’AN/ JORDAN/JERESH

  In the morning, you proceed to the country of Jordan. You will enter the country of Jordan via the Sheikh Hussein bridge and drive south into the city of Jeresh, the best preserved Roman provincial city with its magnificent arenas, theaters, and temples.  Continue to Petra.

  Petra for dinner and overnight.

• Day 8 PETRA

  You begin our experience with the rose-red city of Petra, known as Mount Seir in biblical times. Petra is unquestionably Jordan’s most spectacular site to visit, always a breathtaking adventure. Petra flourished as a Nabataean city for some 500 years from the second century B.C. to the early fourth century A.D. Petra, the Rock, the Nabataean capital city, is an awesome, indestructible monument to the power and skill of the Nabataeans, an ancient Arab tribe. The whole city was carved out of solid rose-red sandstone, leaving us the rock-cut relics of a civilization that expanded the barriers of human knowledge and technology 2,000 years ago.  We will enter the city through its only narrow entrance called “the siq,” which is a mere slit between cliffs 300 feet above.  In the afternoon, you cross back into the country of Israel.

  Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

• Day 9 MOUNT OF OLIVES/GETHSEMANE/VIA DOLOROSA/CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER

  This morning we begin at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to visit the Tomb of Christ. Next to the Garden of Gethsemane, visit the Church of All Nations, then on to visit the house of Caiaphas, where Peter denied the Lord three times. From there, we proceed to Pilate’s Judgement Hall, Chapel of Flagellation, and Lithostrotos. Then follow the Via Dolorosa to the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The remaining afternoon is free for family time and shopping.

  Jerusalem/ Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

• Day 10: Depending on flight time – West Jerusalem -Departure

  Drive to West Jerusalem for a visit to the Holy Land Scale Model of Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Then visit the Israel Museum, where the Dead Sea Scrolls collection is exhibited as well as the Holocaust History Museum Yad Vashem. Continue the drive to Ein Karem, where John the Baptist was born. In the evening, you will enjoy a farewell dinner in Jerusalem before leaving for Ben Gurion Airport.

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