Israel Pilgrimage Christian Tour from Southern Africa
Available Dates: 11 May - 20 May 2023 : 9 Nov- 18 Nov 2023
Arrival at Tel Aviv, Israel
Flight 404 Estimated Arrival time 3:40AM
Meet at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, after visa formalities, transfer to Allenby for crossing to Israel (Over Night in Nazareth Tiberias)
Meet & Assist at the airport. Special Greetings by our airport representative.
Full breakfast
Proceed to Jaffa (Joppa), to see the house of Simon the Tanner and visit St. Peter’s Church. Drive north along the Mediterranean Sea to Caesarea, to view the Aqueduct. Travel onwards to Haifa, Israel’s largest port city, built on the slopes of Mt. Carmel. We then make a brief halt at the Elijah cave at Stella Marris and then we continue to Muhraqa, the place of sacrifice and the site where Prophet Elijah defeated the False Prophets of Ba’al
MORNING : Drive to the Yardenit Baptism Site located on the banks of the Jordan River
Drive to Nazareth, a town where Jesus lived most of the first 30 years of his life on Earth. We will continue to Nazareth to visit the basilica of the Annunciation and the nearby Church of St. Joseph with the traditional Home of the Holy Family. Visit Mary’s Well. Next we drive through the beautiful landscape of Lower Galilee, the home of many Jesus’ disciples. Visit to Mt. Precipice where the wrathful inhabitants of Nazareth wanted to cast Jesus down headlong. Cana visit the wedding Church.
Day 3
We start this day with a boat trip across the Sea of Galilee before we continue to have a St. Peter’s Fish lunch. We will drive around the western shores to visit the pilgrim shrines of the NW shores. Visit to the Mt. of Beatitudes, the scene of the Sermon on the Mount. Continue to Tabgha to visit the Church of the Multiplication of the Loves and Fishes and the nearby Chapel of the Primacy. This is followed by a visit to the ruins of the ancient town of Capernaum which in Jesus’ days was a flourishing border town, also known as “his own city” (Matth. 4:13). We will see the ancient synagogue and the “House of Peter”.
Visit the
Basilica of the Nativity where there will be the opportunity to kneel at the birthplace of Christ in the Grotto of the Nativity. Before living Bethlehem we shall visit the Fields of the Shepherds where the Angel of the Lord proclaimed the birth of the Messiah, the Savior of the World.
AFTERNOON:
Today we drive to the Dead Sea. Bypass Jericho the most ancient city in the world, we drive on, stopping in the shade of sycamore tree of the kind which Zacchaeus climbed in order to see Jesus (Lk. 19:1-10). View only with cable car The Qarantal. IF Float in the salty waters of the Dead Sea. IF TIME PERMITS: Ein Kerem: Church of Visitation, John the Baptist.
FULL DAY FOR THE OLD CITY:
We shall enter within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem and walk in the footsteps of our Lord as he bore the burden of our sins to the Cross at Golgotha. We visit the Pools of Bethesda where Jesus healed the man who had been crippled for 38 years (Joh. 5:1-9) and walk on following the 14 Stations of the Cross from Pilate’s Judgment Hall to the empty tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. We shall visit the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) – you will be granted time for prayers.
After breakfast check out from the hotel and start the tour.
Jerusalem. Start this eventful day with a visit to the Garden Tomb and Gordon’s Golgotha. We drive to Mt. Zion to visit the Upper Room and the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, which is built over the ruins of the Palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest before whom Jesus was brought for trial (Mark 14: 53-65). If time permits: visit TOMB OF KING DAVID We drive to the top of the Mount of Olives from which Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection. From the Mount there is a magnificent view over all ancient and modern Jerusalem, the center of the biblical world. We visit the holy shrines on the Mount and walk on down the “Palm Sunday Road” visiting the Chapel of Dominus Flevit (Jesus wept) en route to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of all Nations where Christ prayed.
Proceed to Jaffa for dinner and Festive ceremony with Tours Staff, certificate, badges & cake.
ESTIMATED DEPARTURE: 1AM ON THE NEXT DAY at 12:45 AM ET405
Christian Tour Package Inclusions
- Return Flights
- Transfes
- 4 **** Hotel Accomodations
- Full board( dinner, bed anA
- Entry Fees
- Luxury A/C tour bus
- Experienced English Guided
FARE: $2700.00
