Archeology Tour:
Day 1: Gateway to the Holy Land
• Tour of the old city of Jaffa, the oldest known port city on earth • Walking tour from ancient Jaffa to modern Tel Aviv
Day 2: Up the Coast
• The Roman port city of Caesarea • Ruins of the Bronze and Iron Age fortress city of Megiddo
Day 3: Crusader and Ottoman Galilee
• Hospitalier Halls and Templar Tunnels under the current Ottoman city in the Crusader capital of Akko (Acre) • Ruins of the Teutonic castle of Montfort • Hike along the perennial stream of Nahal Kziv, which gave Monfort guarded
Day 4: Rabbinic Pilgrimage sites in the Galilee
• Tomb of Yonatan ben Uziel • Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Mystical city of Tsfat (Safed) with its ancient synagogues and holy cemetery
Day 5: Sea of Galilee
• Ancient Capernaum, including its synagogue and church • Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and fish • Roman period synagogue at Migdal • Byzantine period synagogue at Chamei Tverya • Byzantine monastery at Kursi • Excavations at Beit Saideh
Day 6: Golan
• Ancient Talmudic city of Katzrin • Ancient olive oil press
• The ancient spa of Hamat Gader
Day 7: Golan and Upper Galilee
• Roman acropolis at Banias • Medieval Islamic castle now called Nimrod’s fortress • City from the time of Abraham at Tel Dan • Canaanite and, subsequently, Solomonic city of Tel Hatzor
Day 8: Jordan Valley
• Roman City of Beit She’an • Crusader ruins of Belvoir • Oldest, continuously inhabited city on earth at Jericho
Day 9: Judean Desert
• Qumran, city of the Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls • The desert oasis of Ein Gedi • The last stronghold of the Jewish rebellion at Masada
Day 10: Jerusalem – Old City I
• Mount of Olives viewpoint, ancient burial tombs, and churches • Via Dolorosa • Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Day 11: Jerusalem – Old City II
• Temple Mount • Western Wall Plaza and excavations • Jewish Quarter excavations • Mount Zion including David’s Tomb and room of the Last Supper
Day 12: Jerusalem outskirts
• City of David and the politics of archeology
• Ein Kerem – the birth place of John the Baptist • Nebi Samuel: a structure built as a church, converted into a mosque, and today an Orthodox synagogue