Classic Holy Land Tour

Day 1

• Arrival to Israel
• Visit Jaffa - the biblical port city
• Caesarea Maritima  — Model, Roman Theatre, Movie, Praetorium – Pilate’s House & Paul’s Prison, Hippodrome, Aqueduct
• Transfer to Haifa
• Dinner and overnight: Bay View Nof, Haifa

Day 2

• Bahai Gardens & Stella Maris.
• Muhraka Monastery (Elijah vs. Prophets of Baal)
• Lunch at a Druze Restaurant on Carmel
• Tel Megiddo - in the Valley of Armageddon
• Nazareth: City Square, Church of the Annunciation, Church of St. Joseph
• Time permitting, we’ll stop in Cana of Galilee and visit the Church of the Wedding.
• Dinner and overnight: Royale Plaza, Tiberias

Day 3

• Boat ride on the Sea of Galilee from Ginosar to Ginosar
• Visit the 1^stcentury boat at Ginosar
• Arbel Pass - Jesus’ passageway into the Galilee
• Magdala — lookout over the home of Mary Magdalene
• Church of the Primacy of Peter — scene of John 21
• Capernaum — the place mentioned more times than any other city in the New Testament.
• Bethsaida — home to 5 of the 12 disciples
• Prayer at the Mount of Beatitudes
• Enjoy Friday night dinner together
• Dinner and overnight: Royale Plaza, Tiberias

Day 4

• Safed - the city of Kaballah
• Tel Hazor - the capital of the Canaanite Kingdom and the destroyed city of Joshua 11
• Tel Dan - walk through the ruins of Jeroboam’s temple.
• Caesarea Phillipi (“Upon this Rock”)
• Bental Volcano in the Golan Heights and Over the Road to Damascus lookout .
• Dinner and overnight: Royale Plaza, Tiberias

Day 5

• Tel Yizrael - ancient Jezreel & Naboth's Vineyard
• The Harod Spring - where Gideon chose his men
• Drive down the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea
• Qasr el Yahud Baptismal Site - the most likely spot where John the Baptist baptized early disciples.
• Qumran -where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
• Spa time & Evening swim in the Dead Sea
• Dinner and overnight: Prima Spa Dead Sea

 Day 6

• Restful morning at the Dead Sea or the hotel’s private spa.
• Hotel departure at 10:30 am
• Masada - Herod the Great’s desert fortress
• Ahava - shop for Dead Sea products
• Ein Gedi’s lower waterfall – where David hid from Saul.
• Jericho
• Drive up to Jerusalem
• Mount Scopus Lookout over Jerusalem
• Dinner and overnight: Prima Royale Jerusalem

Day 7

• Lookout from the Mount of Olives
• Dominus Flevit - where Jesus wept
• Garden of Gethsemane at the Church of the Agony
• Church of St. Anne and the Pools of Bethesda
• Walk the Via Dolorosa
• Church of the Holy Sepulcher
• Damascus Gate
• The Lord's Prayer at the Church of Pater Noster
• Chapel of Ascension on the Mt. of Olives
• Dinner and overnight: Prima Royale Jerusalem

Day 8

• Peter en Gallicantu -  the House of Caiaphas and the traditional jailhouse where Jesus was kept the night before his trial.
• The Church of the Last Supper and David's Tomb on  Mount Zion
• Jewish Quarter: Hezekiah's Broad Wall
• Temple Institute – Third Temple preparations
• Lunch at the Jewish Quarter
• Southern Wall Excavations - walk up the 1^st century steps of the Temple
• Western “Wailing” Wall
• Dinner and overnight: Prima Royale Jerusalem

Day 9

• The Israel Museum: Shrine of the Book and Second Temple Period model
• Beth Shemesh - drive by Zora and Eshtaol, where Samson grew up
• Tel Beth Shemesh - where the Ark of the Covenant was returned by the Philistines
• Elah Valley, where David fought Goliath
• Bethlehem: The Church of the Nativity, Manger Square & Bazaar Shopping
• Farewell dinner at the Grotto Restaurant, Bethlehem
• Overnight: Prima Royale Jerusalem

Day 10

• Leisure morning
• Garden Tomb and Gordon’s Calvary - an alternative site for the crucifixion and resurrection
• The Road to Emmaus and the Church of the Resurrection in Abu Ghosh
• Transfer to Airport