Calvary Tours

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Tours E xpe rie n ce... $3595 Round Trip Airfare Deluxe Hotels Three Meals Each Day All Entrance Fees Taxes, Tips, and Gratuities Group Travel Insurance

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DAY 01 - NORTH AMERICA Your exciting journey begins as you board a transatlantic jetliner in New York DAY 05 – DEAD SEA AREA for an overnight flight headed to Israel. Dinner will be served on board. After breakfast we will check out of our hotel. Our day begins as we board our motor-coach to drive through the lush green Jordan valley to the lowest point on DAY 08 - JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY earth – The Dead Sea. Then we will visit Qumran to view the caves where the The New City is on today’s agenda. We will begin at Yad Vashem, the Holo- DAY 02 - ARRIVAL TEL AVIV/TIBERIAS Dead Sea Scrolls were found. As we continue our journey, we will make a brief caust memorial, with its astounding new historical museum, Hall of Remem- After breakfast in air, we will land in Tel Aviv, Israel’s modern-day metropolis. stop at En Gedi where David hid from Saul who tried to kill him. After lunch we brance, and Children’s’ Memorial commemorating the six million Jews that Our guide and bus driver will be on hand to greet us after completing passport will drive south to Masada where the Zealots held off the Roman army for over lost their lives during the Holocaust. Continue to Ein Karem, the birth place formalities. We will drive north along the Mediterranean coast into Tiberius, three years. They ended up taking their own lives – not wanting to become slaves of John the Baptist, to visit the Church of John the Baptist. Return to our hotel where we will check into our hotel for our welcome dinner and overnight on to Rome. We will also visit the “oasis” town of the longest continually in- for dinner and overnight. the Sea of . habited town in the world. As we continue on toward the Holy City of Jerusalem,  we will stop in to see the Tomb of Lazarus, then continue on to Jerusalem  for dinner and overnight. DAY 03 - AREA DAY 09 - JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY Today, our day will be spent visiting sites around the Sea of Galilee. Our first Our touring today will begin as we enter the through St. Stephen’s stop will be a visit to Mount Beatitudes, the site of the Sermon on the Mount. DAY 06 - JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY Gate, where a thousand and one sights and sounds will greet you. The Pool This morning, drive to the for an unforgettable panoramic view Then on to Tabgha, a chapel dedicated to the miracle of the “loaves and fish- of Bethesda will be our first stop, which is the site of the miraculous healing of the Old City of Jerusalem, with the Temple Mount just before us. Next we visit es”. Stop at the Primacy of Peter for a short service on the shores of the Sea of of a paralyzed man by . After viewing the Ecce Homo Arch (Behold the the Chapel of Ascension commemorating the ascension of our Lord 40 days after Galilee. A short drive takes you to the city of to visit the area where Man), we will begin walking the , the traditional route walked by his resurrection. Pater Noster is where Jesus taught his disciples to pray. Begin our Jesus lived, the house of Simon Peter, and the ancient synagogue. After lunch, Jesus as he carried his cross to Mount Calvary. The route ends at the Church decent by foot down the Palm Sunday Road, visiting along the way Dominus Flevit we will enjoy a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. Before returning to our hotel, of the Holy Sepulcher, the ancient site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus. Chapel where Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem, and the Church of All Nations we will stop at the Jordan River where it leaves the Sea of Galilee and begins its Next, we visit the rebuilt Jewish Quarter with its old Sephardic synagogues, the standing in the Garden of Gethsemene where Jesus prayed “not my will, but Thine descent towards the Dead Sea. A baptismal service will be held for those want- Byzantine-era Cardo, and the first temple-era Broad Wall. We will end our be done.” ing to be baptized. We end our day with dinner at our hotel and overnight. tour with a communion service at the Garden Tomb where you will see the amazing Place of the Skull and the rock hewn tomb believed by many to be DAY 07 - JERUSALEM / the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection. Return to our hotel for DAY 04 - / Begin the day on Mount Zion to visit St. Peter in Gallicantu, built over the house dinner and overnight. Start our day with a beautiful drive to the Mount of Transfiguration, where Je- of Caiaphas, the High Priest, where Jesus was held overnight in the dungeon be- sus was transfigured. Drive to Cana of Galilee, the site where the first miracle fore his crucifixion. We will also visit the Tomb of David, and the Upper Room, took place, when Jesus turned the water into wine. A short drive to Nazareth the site of the Last Supper. A short drive will take us to Bethlehem to see the DAY 10 - JERUSALEM/NORTH AMERICA brings us to the boyhood home of Jesus where we will visit the monumental Shepherd’s Field where the angels announced to the shepherds that a Savior had We reluctantly say farewell to Israel, taking with us memories that will Church of the Annunciation, Mary’s Well, and the Jewish Synagogue. After been born. At the Church of the Nativity, we will visit the cave where Jesus was last a life-time. Our departure from the hotel to the airport will be early lunch, we will visit Nazareth Village, a recreation of an ancient village as it laid in the manger. Return to Jerusalem for dinner and overnight at our hotel. morning. would have been during the time of Jesus. Return to our hotel for dinner and