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Included
Features
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Round trip air transportation
• English speaking tour director throughout
• Accommodations in First Class and select hotels in twin bedded rooms
with private bath. Kibbutz guest houses in Galilee.
• Israeli (buffet style) breakfast and dinner daily
• Boat ride on the Sea of Galilee.
• All transfers and sightseeing per itinerary by private, deluxe motor
coach
• Entrance fees for included features
• Pilgrim's map of the Holy Land.
• Taxes, tips and service charges for all included features except tour
escort and driver
• Baggage handling included throughout the tour for one suitcase per
person, irrespective of air carrier
• Special dinner at a local restaurant
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Not included:
• Items not specifically
mentioned in itinerary
• Items of a person nature such as passport fees
• Tips to tour escort and driver
• Beverages with dinner
• Additional baggage other than one piece allowed
as mentioned in the itinerary
• Airport taxes, fees, Fuel & security
surcharges, and September 11th Security Fee
• Travel insurance
• Visas, etc.
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 Day
1/Departure
Begin your pilgrimage to the Holy Land this evening with your
flight to Israel.
Day 2/Tel Aviv area
Upon arrival you will be met at the airport and taken to your
hotel. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure.
Day 3/Tel Aviv area/Galilee
Travel the Mediterranean coast, where aquamarine waters wash
beaches framed by ruined aqueducts, to Caesarea. See the Amphitheater,
the
Crusader City, the Byzantine street, the aqueduct and Herod's Port.
Continue along the coast to pine covered Mt. Carmel, where Elijah
called
down fire from Heaven. Visit Acco with its crusader ruins. Overnight
in the Galilee.
Day 4/Galilee
Enjoy the lush vegetation and cascades at the Banias Nature
Reserve. Explore the Sea of Galilee with a boat ride, where ancient
fishing
boats and modern craft ply waters long made sacred by gospel
associations
On the Mount of Beatitiudes, site of Sermon on the Mount, view the
panorama of lake and mountain. Visit Tabgha and Capernaum, a lake side
village. Enter the synagogue, the Church of the Loaves and Fishes, and
St. Peter's house.
Day 5/Galilee/Jerusalem
Leaving the Galilee this morning, visit Cana, where Jesus
turned water into wine. On then to Nazareth, rimmed by low, green
Galilean
hills. Head south to Beth Shean, site of a well preserved Roman
Theater.
Travel along the Jordan Valley into Judea, a route traced by ancient
and modern pilgrims. Take the old Jericho Road to Tel Jericho, where
ongoing archeological excavations link this ancient city of the plain
to Neolithic times. Visit Elisha's Spring, where the prophet sweetened
the waters. To the west rises the Mount of Temptation that commands
the unforgettable panorama of the Jericho Plain and the Mountains of
Moab. Ascend the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem and the Garden
of Gethsemane, traditional site of Jesus' arrest. Continue on to
Jerusalem.
Day 6/Jerusalem
Tour the Old City today. Walk the narrow street of the Via
Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Dating from the Crusades,
the
church is reverenced as the site of Christ's death, burial and
resurrection. Enter the Arab Quarter to the Western Wall. Just inside
St. Stephen's Gate see St. Anne's Church, renowned for its serenity and
its flowering cloister. Enter the Praetorium, site of the trail of
Jesus and his
condemnation. Visit the Garden Tomb, revered by some Christians as
the site of Jesus' burial. Finally, visit Yad Vashem, the national
memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust. An eternal flame
burns as an everlasting memorial. Drive past the Knesset, modern
Israel's
parliament, to the white domed Shrine of the Book, which houses the
Dead Sea Scrolls.
Day 7/Jerusalem (Sunday)
Enjoy Jerusalem on your own today. Take time to attend a
special worship service, do additional sightseeing or just to walk
around this inspiring city. You may also choose to do an optional day
tour to one of the many attractions ringing the city.
Day 8/Masada
Drive to Wadi Kelt and view the Monastery of St. George,
whose whitewashed walls and blue dome cling to the brown hillside.
Continue to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, and to the Caves of
Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Drive along the
Dead Sea to the fortress of Masada, built over 2,000 years ago, with
its frescoes and mosaics still remarkably preserved. Here, Jewish
defenders slew
themselves and their families rather than surrendered to the Roman
legions.
Return to Jerusalem.
Day 9/Jerusalem
Travel to Bethlehem and visit the Church of the Nativity,
site of Jesus' birth. On the eastern slope of Mt. Zion visit the Tomb
of David,
where a cenotaph, a huge stone monument, marks the royal memorial.
Ascending
a flight of steps, enter the room of the Last Supper, where medieval
arches hallow the site. Enjoy some free time today for that last minute
shopping or photo opportunity. After dinner, you will board your flight
for the trip home.
Day 10/United States
As you arrive home, reflect on the memories of your Holy Land
pilgrimage, for these will be yours for a lifetime.
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