Itinerary
DAY 1 TEL AVIV AIRPORT – JERUSALEM
Where you will be met by a Tala Tours representative. Transfer to your hotel in Jerusalem for Dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 2 JERUSALEM – BETHLEHEM
We enter via the Dung Gate to visit the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount. Proceed to Mount Zion to visit the Cenacle – the Last Supper Room, King David's Tomb and The Dormition Abbey. We drive then via the western new city of Jerusalem, observe the Hebrew University, the Parliament House and the Supreme Court. Drive to Bethlehem, to visit the Church of the Nativity and the Shepard's Fields. Drive to Ein Karem to visit the Church of the Visitation and John the Baptist's birth place – on to Yad Vashem the memorial museum of the holocaust Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 3 JERUSALEM – THE OLD CITY
Drive to the Mount of Olives. Where you will enjoy the 'breath taking' view over the Holy City of Jerusalem. From there we descend to visit the Church of All Nations and the Garden of Gethsemane. We will walk the via of the Cross 'Via Dolorosa', Pool of Bethesda, Church of the Flagellation and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. We continue to the Cardo, the Roman main street of the Old City via the Jewish quarter and back to the coach. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 4 JERUSALEM, QUMRAN, MASSADA,DEAD SEA
Leave Jerusalem (800 meters above sea level) and head down to the Dead Sea (420 meters below sea level). We will visit Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered. Then we will ascend by cable car to the top of the Massada Fortress – the last resistance place against the Romans and learn the heroic story. Return to the Dead Sea for a floating experience and back to Jerusalem for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 5 JERUSALEM – JERICHO – TIBERIAS
Drive to Jericho, the oldest city in the world, via Wadi Kelt, on the Roman ancient road for observation of the Monastery of St. Georges. Stop by the Mount of Temptation and visit the Tel of Jericho. Drive through the Jordan Valley and visit the ancient Roman Theatre at Beit Shean. On to the Baptismal site on the River Jordan. Proceed to Tiberias for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 6 TIBERIAS, SEA OF GALILEE AND GOLAN HEIGHTS
Boat rides on the Sea of Galilee to Tabgha the site of the Miracles of the Fish and Loaves. Capernaum where Jesus started his preaching, visit the old Synagogue and house of St. Peter drive to the Mount of Beatitudes – where the ceremony on the Mount took place. Continue via the Golan Heights to Banias (Cesarea Philippi) one of the Jordan River's sources, where Philip son of Herod's established the capital city for his Kingdom on the Upper Galilee. Finally back to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 7 TIBERIAS – NAZARETH – CESAREA – TEL AVIV
Drive from Tiberias to Cana, where Jesus performed his first Miracle of turning the water in to wine. Proceed to Nazareth. Visit the Basilica of Annunciation and the Well of the Virgin Mary. Proceed to Cesarea, the city of Herod's, where you will visit the ruins of the Roman Theatre and the Crusaders City. Finally, drive to Tel Aviv for dinner and overnight stay.
DAY 8 TEL AVIV AIRPORT – DEPARTURE DAY
Transfer from your hotel to Tel Aviv Airport for departure. A Tala Tours representative will assist you through the formalities.
