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CRADLE OF FAITH – MAGICAL AND LUXURIOUS ISRAEL, 8 DAYS

CRADLE OF FAITH – MAGICAL AND LUXURIOUS ISRAEL, 8 DAYS

Day 1. Welcome to Israel!
At the airport in Tel Aviv your representative from Luxury Travel will be waiting for you, in whose company you will go over passport and border control on the accelerated clearance of a VIP Priority Line. When you receive your luggage, a personal driver will take you to the hotel from Luxury Travel. After checking in a comfortable room the rest of the day is devoted to rest after the journey.

Day 2. Tel Aviv, the Galilee coast
After breakfast in the hotel lobby you will meet a Polish-speaking guide with which you complete a comfortable car ride along the scenic coast of Tel Aviv to the historic Old Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world. Thousands of years of history, beautiful architecture, historic churches, antique shops and galleries and a picturesque fishing port are the biggest attractions of this place.

After leaving Tel Aviv, you take the road leading along the Mediterranean coast to Caesarea. This ancient city and harbor was the seat of Herod the Great. Take a stroll and visit the palace of Herod, the Crusader citadel, the Roman theater and aqueduct. Then, along the coast road, you will go to the city of Haifa. You will visit the Bahai Shrine, Persian Garden, you will admire Mount Carmel and Haifa Bay.

Another destination is Old Arce (Akko) – the city where East meets West, the new with the old, the beauty of the ruins, creating a unique and mystical atmosphere. You will see, among other things: hammams, caravanserai (a resting place, replenishment merchant caravans and pilgrims traversing the Silk Road), the citadel walls. View the remains of the Crusader underground city – a complex of rooms used by the Knights Templar knightly order, where you can explore the extraordinary results of archaeological exploration. Transportation to Galilee. Hotel accommodation and dinner.

Day 3. Galilee, Upper Galilee and Golan Heights
After breakfast, accompanied by a personal guide and driver, you go on another fascinating tour. It will be a drive along the Sea of ​​Galilee (Galilee), which played an important role in the early years of Christianity. This is the place where Jesus lived, preached and performed miracles.
Then you get to Capernaum, in the New Testament known as the City of Jesus. There is one of the oldest churches in the world, as well as a monumental ancient synagogue. It was also the place where Peter lived during the time when Jesus performed miracles.

The next stop on your trip will be Tabha, where there was a miracle of the multiplication of fish and bread by Jesus. Also will visit the renovated Benedictine church, built in the same style and the same principles as the original. On the Mount of the Beatitudes to observe the place of the sermons of Jesus. It offers beautiful views of the groves of palm trees and magnolias, but primarily on the Sea of ​​Galilee, the ruins of Capernaum and Tabhi. Then you complete your scenic trails running through the Golan Heights.
At the end of the tour we invite you to a tasting of regional fruit and wines from the area of ​​the Golan Heights. After a trip back to the hotel.

Day 4. From Galilee, the Jordan valley to Jerusalem
On this day, we offer a fascinating day trip. It will begin with passing through Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity, the city where the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary with the news that she will conceive of the power of the Holy Spirit, as well as the place where Jesus spent his childhood and youth. The Jordan Valley to Beit She’an, a city located between the Jordan Valley and the Valley of Jezreel (Yizre’el), also known as Scythopolis, due to its favorable location at the crossroads of trade routes it became part of the relationship of cities – Decapolis. Gan also visiting Gooro, an unusual place – showing an Australian wildlife park in Israel. There will also be (as an option before exploring the Beit She’an visit to the chocolate factory Galit. Then, through the Jordan Valley you arrive at Jerusalem. The road to the hotel fails along the walls of the Old City. Upon arrival at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem – accommodation and dinner .

Day 5. Jerusalem – Old Town
Before you another great day, full of unforgettable impressions. After breakfast you go with a guide on the Mount of Olives to enjoy the beautiful views of the ancient city of Jerusalem. Separated from the Eastern Hills (the Temple Mount and the City of David) through the Valley of Kidron, Mount of Olives has always had an important place in the landscape of Jerusalem. From the third millennium BC to the hill today it serves as one of the main places of burial. It is also the site of the ascension of Jesus Christ.

Then you can explore the garden of Gethsemane and the Church of All Nations. A surprise for those coming to the Garden of Gethsemane is the fact that the old, gnarled olive trees grow longer, when Jesus came here with students on that fateful night after the Last Supper. The impressive Church of All Nations was built in 1920 on the foundations of earlier churches that have witnessed the events immortal visualized on the mosaics: the prayer of Jesus in isolation, betrayal of Judas, cut off of his ear by the servant of the High Priest.

The next stage of the tour will take you on a ride to the Old City and visit the Temple Mount. It is a sacred place like many others in Jerusalem for Jews, Muslims and Christians. Once there was the great Temple in Jerusalem today to right: Muslim Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque. Then you are visiting the Wailing Wall, the wall which is part of the western wall of the Temple Mount complex. To this part of the wall adjoining the large square to allow the faithful pray in the vicinity.You go through the 14 Stations of the Cross up the hill of Golgotha, the place of crucifixion. It is located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which we will visit.
After those moments of reverie you go on a walk through a colorful Arabic bazaar located within the walls of Jerusalem. After the tour – dinner at one of the city’s restaurants or directly back to the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem.

Day 6. Jerusalem a new city – Dead Sea
After breakfast you begin your day passing by the new city to enjoy its main attractions: the Supreme Court, the seat Knesset (parliament), and Menorah (7 humeral candleholder). Will visit the Israel Museum, the largest cultural institution in the country, the Shrine of which houses the oldest biblical manuscripts, and rare early medieval manuscripts. In the vicinity of the shrine is a model of Jerusalem from the Second Temple period. Optionally, we also walk through the Shuk Mahane Yehuda (food market).
Then you go you toward the Palestinian Authority. After crossing the border, and a visit Christmas Church in Bethlehem. This is the only Byzantine church, which has survived many invasions and destruction. (Trip with a local Palestinian guide, requires a passport). Next landscaped drive along the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea.

Optional participation of ancient Hebrew Hebrew Hospitality ceremony and ride camels in the heart of the desert of Judea. Late in the evening you arrive at the hotel on the Dead Sea.

7. Day of the Dead Sea – Day off the Dead Sea
Day to relax and enjoy – a choice that the hotel spa, beach and hotel pools. You can also go on a tour with a personal guide – paid additionally. Overnight and dinner at the hotel.

Day 8. Last day of stay
Morning time to relax at the hotel. Upon check-out you will travel with a personal driver to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. At the airport you will be waiting for your representative of Luxury Travel, in whose company go over security check in and briefing.

The price for the program depends on the number of persons and date of departure and the availability of hotels.

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