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| Tour Package 3 |
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This Tour Package includes Flights, Accomodation, Breakfast and a full 11 Day Itinerary.
If you would like to book this tour then please call us now on 028 3839 4489, or simply click the enquire button at the bottom of this page and fill out our online enquiry form.
Please see Itinerary details below:
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| Day 1 |
Depart Belfast/Dublin/Glasgow/London.
Arrive at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
Meeting and assistance by Thompson Travel International representative and transfer to hotel on the Mediterranean Coast.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 2 |
After Breakfast, visit Caesarea with excavations from Roman Byzantine and Crusader periods. Continue to Atlit - detention camp for Jewish immigrants during British Mandate. To Mount Carmel, Muhraka (Elijah's battle against Ba'al's prophets), to Megiddo (ancient Armageddon) and through the Jezreel Valeey to Tiberias on shores of the sea of Galilee.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 3 |
After breakfast, drive to Mount of beatitudes (site of Sermon on the Mount), to Metulla, Banias (Cesarea Philippi), Nimrod Castle, Beit Sa'ida and to Capernaum (ancient synagogue, site of Jesus' Ministry).
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 4 |
After breakfast, boat trip on Sea of Galilee. Tour the Golan Heights, Kursi, Tabgha (Miracle of Loaves and Fishes).
Renew wedding vows at Cana.
Tour Nazareth (boyhood town of Jesus) to Yardenit - baptismal site on River Jordan.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 5 |
After breakfast, "Galilee Experience" multimedia show. Tour Beit Shean, one of the Roman Decapolis cities with extensive ongoing excavations, to Ein Harod and south along the River Jordan Valley, past Jericho - worlds oldest, continuously-inhabited city.
Drive up through the Judean Wilderness to Jerusalem. Stop on Mount of Olives for panoramic view of Jerusalem, then visit Dominus Flevit and Garden of Gethsemane.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 6 |
After breakfast, drive to the Old City, enter through the Dung Gate for walking tour of the Temple Area with the Western Wall and Dome of the Rock and El Aqsa Mosques.
Visit the Temple Institute.
Afternoon drive to Bethlehem to visit Manger Square and Church of Nativity. Visit Model of Jerusalem from Second Temple Period. Visit Southern Wall excavations.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 7 |
After breakfast, drive to the Old City, Visit Western Wall Tunnels. Walk along the Via Diolorosa, visit Church of Holy Sepulchre. Visit St.Peter in Galicantu. Visit Bridges for Peace.
Communication at Garden Tomb.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 8 |
After breakfast, drive to Modi'in. Tree Planting at Modi'in Forest. Visit Ne'ot Kedumim - Biblical Nature Reserve. Tour Beit Guvrin Caves. Visit ancient portcity of Yafo with cobbled streets. Return to Jerusalem.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 9 |
After breakfast, drive down to the Dead Sea. Lowest point on Earth and south along its shores to Massada - ascend and descend by cable car to view excavations of this famous fortress. Stop at the Ein Gedi Spa to experience therapeutic qualities of the Dead Sea. Visit Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. Visit the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Dinner and overnight at hotel. |
| Day 10 |
After breakfast, walk to the Old City.
Service at Christ Church. Visit Mount Zion. Drive to the Knesset (Israel's parliament), view the giant bronze Menorah depicting Jewish history through the ages. Visit the Israel Museum to view Dead Sea Scrolls exhibited in the Shrine of the Book. Visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
Farewell dinner at hotel. |
| Day 11 |
Early departure for transfer to airport. |
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