Christian Pilgrimage Tour

10 Day Itinerary

Follow the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land.

Day 1: Arrive from airport and drive directly to the ancient port of Jaffa with its stories of Jonah, St. Peter, Richard the Lionheart, Napoleon and Mark Twain

Day 2: Drive to Jerusalem way of the ancient pilgrims’ route. Stop at the Latrun Monastery to explore its traditional wine industry, Abu Ghosh for a Crusader Church and some of the world’s best hummus, enter the holy city by way of Ein Kerem, the birthplace of John the Baptist, and finish the day with a dusk viewpoint over Jerusalem.

Day 3: Walk in the final footsteps of Jesus’s life on the Via Dolorosa, explore the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and all four quarters of the Old City.

Day 4: Follow Palm Sunday Road on the Mount of Olives, enter the room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, and explore the archeology of the Jewish Temple in the Western Wall Tunnels

Day 5: Visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the ancient city of Jericho, with the Monastery of the Temptation

Day 6: Descend to the Judean Desert to explore the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, relive the last battle of the Great Revolt at Masada, float in the Dead Sea

Day 7: Travel north along the Jordan River to the stunning the Crusader fortress of Belvoir. Continue to the great Roman city of Beit She’an, and finish the day with a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee in Tiberius

Day 8: Follow in the footsteps and read the miracles of Jesus at Capernaum, the Church of Loaves and Fish, the Church of the Supremacy of Peter, Mount of Beatitudes, Ginnosar’s museum of an excavated fisherman’s boat, and finish the day with a Baptism in the Jordan River at Yardenit

Day 9: Go to Nazareth for the Church of the Annunciation, see where Jesus performs his first miracle at Cana’s Wedding Church and the locale of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. Finish the day at the city of Megiddo, the location of the Armageddon

Day 10: Drive south along the coast by way of Haifa and the Bahai Gardens, soak up the Mediterranean amidst the ruins of Caesarea, and return to the airport for the flight home