5 Days In Israel

Start the day by being collected from your hotel, in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.   As we are leaving Tel Aviv, drive along the Mediterrannean, to Caesarea.   Explore the excavations with your guide, and view the well preserved rooms, a moat, and the gateways.   There is a beautiful Roman amphitheater that is very well preserved, and still used today for major events, and concerts.  See the remains of a hippodrome, and a Roman temple. Continue North through Haifa and tour the Baha'i shrine and the famous gardens.   There are 19 terraces that make up the garden.  Drive on to Rosh Hanikra and decend in a cable car to the grottoes.   Driving back we will see Acre, a huge Crusader city.   It is very well preserved, and it is hard to believe that it has survived through the years.  Tour the Turkish prison that was used under the Turkish rule, and also by the British to hang the Jews, so that it would limit the imigration after World War 2.

Start the tour by being collected from your hotel in Jerusalem at 05:40, or from Tel Aviv at 06:40.  Drive past Netanya and Hertzeliya, traveling north, and drive through the Armageddon plain.   There will be a view of Megiddo, and we will stop at the Mount of Precipitation.  When arriving in Nazareth the first stop will be the Church of Annunciation.   This church was built on the place where the angel Gabriel appeared before Mary.   Next to this is the church of St. Joseph. Leaving Nazareth traveled to the Sea of Galilee, and pass Cana, where Jesus turned water into wine.   The bottom of Mount Beatitude, tour Capernaum, which was the home of Peter, and the Benedictine Church that commemorates the miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish. As we continue, view the Golan Heights in the background, and pass Tiberias, the modern city that was built over 2000 years ago and was named after the Roman emperor Tiberuis. For those who wish there will be a chance to be baptized with the waters of the Jordan River.   On the way back we will pass the site of the Transfiguration, at Mount Tabor. Arrival back  about 18:00.

Start the tour from your hotel in Tel Aviv, where you will be collected by our professional driver at 06:40 a.m. or from Jerusalem at 07:50 a.m    Drive down towards the Dead Sea passing the Inn of the Good Samaritan.   We will stop for a brief time at the sea level marker, and continue to Jericho.   Above Jericho you will be able to see Mt. Temptation where Jesus fasted for 40 nights.   Travel to Bethlehem to the birthplace of Jesus.   Take a walk across Manger Square to the Church of Nativity.   See the beautiful original mosaic floor from the 4th century under the one that was constructed in the 6th century.   Tour the Crusader Church, that is dedicated to St. Catherine, and go down the grotto where the Hebrew bible was translated into Latin by St. Jerome.   In Bethlehem we will pass the milk grotto and go to Shepherd's Fields.   From here we will start the journey back. Arrival back at your hotel about 18:00 p.m.