Duration: 14 Days
Dates: April 19, 2023 to April 29 (May 3rd With Egypt), 2023
Departure City: Houston, Texas

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Detailed Itinerary

Day 01 (WED - 19APR): Departure
Today, we will leave the USA on an international flight to Tel Aviv.

DAY 02 (THU – 20APR): Arrival Ben Gurion – Tel Aviv
Upon arrival to Ben Gurion Airport, our guide will assist us through customs and passport control. Transfer to our hotel in Tel Aviv for dinner and overnight. (D)

Day 03 (FRI – 21APR): Caesarea – Mt. Carmel – Megiddo – Nazareth – Tiberias
After breakfast we will start our day with visiting the following biblical sites: Caesarea Maritima (entrance included), the springboard of Christianity to the West (Acts 9 & 25), Mt. Carmel (1 Kings. 18) (entrance included), Megiddo (Armageddon; 1 Kgs. 9:15; Rev. 16:16) (entrance included), Nazareth - Mount of Precipice (Luke 1 & 2). We continue to Tiberias to check into our hotel. Dinner and overnight. (B, D)

Day 04 (SAT – 22APR): Sea of Galilee – Magdala - Baptismal Site
This morning we rise at our hotel on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Start the day with boat ride (included) then we visit the ancient Jesus boat (entrance included), on to visit Mt of Beatitude, Korazin (entrance included), Capernaum (entrance included), Peter's Primacy, and Magdala. We will also have the chance to try St. Peter's fish for lunch. We will end the day at the Yardenit Baptismal site for renewal for baptismal vows. Overnight in Tiberias. (B, D)

Day 05 (SUN – 23APR): Tel Dan – Banias – Golan Heights – Mt. Bental – Katzrin
Today will include many biblical sites in the Upper Jordan Valley: Hazer (Josh. 11:10; 1 Kgs. 9:15) (entrance included), Tell Dan and the Nature Reserve (entrance included), Border of Lebanon (Josh. 11:17), view Mt. Hermon (Deut. 3:8), Caesarea Philippi (Paneas; Mark 8:27) (entrance included), The road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19) in the Golan Heights (Bashan) and will visit Mt. Bental. We continue to Qatzrin (entrance included) to explore the ancient synagogue. Return to Hotel for Dinner and overnight in Tiberias. (B, D)

Day 06 (MON – 24APR): Bet Shean – Bet Arabah – Jericho – Jerusalem
After breakfast we will visit Bet She’an (entrance included), the Disneyland of archeology and also where the bodies of King Saul and his sons were taken and mutilated after their death in battle. Visit Kasr El Yahud “Bet Arabah” (the traditional site of the Baptismal Site). Visit Jericho to include Tel Jericho (entrance included) where the city of Jericho stood at the time of Joshua, view Mt of Temptation and pass by the Sycamore tree that reminds us of Jesus' encounter with Zacheus. Start our ascent to Jerusalem. View the Holy City from Mt Scopus before check in at your hotel. Dinner and overnight Jerusalem (B, D)

Day 07 (TUE – 25APR): Mt. of Olives – Old City – Holy Sepulcher – Israel Museum
Today we begin our tour with an orientation of the City of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives where our guide will point out the most important sites in Jerusalem. Then we continue our walk on the Palm Sunday Road to reach the Dominus Flevit. Then we will go to Gethsemane with its ancient olive grove, and there visit the Church of Agony, where Jesus prayed and was arrested (private time will be given in the private section of the Garden). Then continue to the Old City to visit the Ecce Homo Church (included), and then we will walk the Stations of the Cross in the Old City to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. End of the day will be visiting the Israel Museum (entrance included), including a 1:50 scale model of Jerusalem at the time of Herod the Great and the Shrine of the Book Museum, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are displayed. Dinner at hotel in Jerusalem. (B, D)

Day 08 (WED – 26APR): Temple Mount – Wailing Wall – Western Wall tunnel – St. Anne’s – Herodion – Bethlehem – Shepherd’s Fields
We will ascend the Temple Mount, discussing its connection to both the Old and New Testaments. We will also discuss why it is considered the third holiest site in Islam. Leaving the Temple Mount through the chain gate to visit the Wailing Wall Judaism holiest place. Enter the western wall tunnel (entrance included) where we learn about the architecture of the Temple esplanade built by Herod the great and reach the warren gate where we would be but a few yards from where the Holy of the Holies stood. Exit the western tunnel we proceed to visit the Church of St. Anne’s (included), a perfectly intact Crusader church. It is a wonderful place to gather and sing a song (sometimes with fellow Christians from all over the world). There, we will also visit the pools of Bethesda where the healing at the pool took place (John 5). Continue to visit Herodion (included). End of the day will be visiting Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity where Our Lord was born & Shepherd’s Fields where the angles appeared to the shepherds and announced His Birth. Time will be given for some shopping in Bethlehem. Dinner and Overnight Jerusalem (B, D)

Day 09 (THU – 27APR): City of David – Masada – Ein Gedi – Qumran – Dead Sea – Jerusalem 
This morning we start the day with a visit to the City of David and Pools of Siloam with the option of walking though Hezekiah's Tunnel (entrance included). Depart along the Judean wilderness to visit Masada (entrance & cable car included), where we will ascend high upon the wilderness mountain by way of the cable car to the fortress built by King Herod. Here we survey the ruins of the fortifications, waterworks, synagogue, temples and palaces. Following the road north along the western shore of the Dead Sea, we will stop at the field school for an overview of Ein Gedi where David hid from King Saul (I Samuel 24). Continuing north, we will stop at Qumran (entrance included) and the possible settlement of the first century sect known as the Essenes, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. End of the day will be at the Dead Sea floating in the water. Dinner and overnight at Jerusalem (B, D)

Day 10 (FRI – 28APR): Davidson Center – St. Peter in Gallicantu – Jewish Quarter – Check out from hotel – Garden Tomb
Start the day by visiting the excavations are Davidson Center (included) the main entrance to the Temple and the Teaching steps where Rabbis such Gamaliel used to teach. Depart to visit St. Peter in Gallicantu (included) where Peter denied our lord. We will also visit the Last Supper Room. Then we continue to Jewish Quarter. Return to our hotel to refresh and check out at noontime. End of the day will be visiting the Garden Tomb (entrance included) (B,D)

Day 11 (SAT - 29APR): Flight back home
Today we depart to Ben Gurion airport for flight back home with unforgettable memories, amazing new friends and a life-changing understanding of the Bible.

OPTIONAL EXTENSION TO EGYPT:

Day 11 (SAT – 29APR): Jerusalem – Taba
Arrive Taba border. Meet and assist. Free day on Taba to enjoy the Red Sea Shore. Dinner and overnight in Taba.

Day 12 (SUN – 30APR) Taba morning at leisure – St. Catherine
Breakfast in Taba. One more chance for a swim in the Red Sea. Transfer to St. Catherine. Dinner and overnight in St. Catherine.

Day 13 (MON – 01MAY): Sinai – Cairo
Early morning, Climb Moses' Mountain. It was this mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Descend for breakfast at the hotel. Visit St. Catherine’s monastery (entrance included). View the burning bush where God spoke to Moses and Moses well. Drive to Cairo. Dinner and overnight in Cairo.

Day 14 (TUE – 02MAY): Pyramids – Egyptian Museum
Breakfast at the hotel in Cairo. Visit the Great Pyramids (entrance included) which is considered one of the few remaining world’s seven wonders. On to visit the Sphinx at Giza plateau. Visit the Egyptian museum which displays the ancient Egyptian treasures (entrance included). Dinner and overnight in Cairo.

Day 15 (WED – 03MAY): Departure
Breakfast at the hotel in Cairo. Transfer to Cairo airport to catch the international flight back home.