Welcome to the - the most Magical place in the world.

Visit which is without a doubt one of the most unique cities of all times, the proud capital of modern and the holiest place on earth for two of the three monotheistic religions: Christianity and Judaism and next only to and in its holiness and significance for Islam. For centuries, pilgrims from all over the world have been making the exhausting journey across strange and hostile lands to make a wish at the Western Wall of the Temple of Solomon or to light a candle at Golgotha and the Tomb of Jesus or to pray at the at Al Aqsa on Temple Mount.

Walk in the footsteps of Jesus around the Sea of following the Ministry of Christ.

Spend time in Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps and take a leisurely stroll from the waterfront of Tel Aviv to Old Jaffa one of the oldest cities and certainly the oldest seaport in the world.

Relax in and enjoy the crystal clear waters of the Red Sea. Or float on the Dead Sea with its amazing healing powers and the lowest point on Earth .

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CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN THE HOLYLAND...... 3

CATHOLIC GROUP TO THE HOLYLAND...... 4

8 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND...... 6

HOLY LAND - 13 DAYS /12 NIGHTS...... 8

HOLY WEEK – PALM SUNDAY TO EASTER SUNDAY...... 10

SPECIAL HIKING TOUR OF ISRAEL "OUTDOORS IN ISRAEL " ...... 12

ITINERARY FOR TOUR 7 DAYS / 6 NIGHTS...... 16

GREEK ORTHODOX - PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY LAND 9 DAYS...... 18

REGIONAL ITINERARY , ISRAEL, ...... 20

JORDAN -ADD ON -TOUR 4 DAYS/ 3 NIGHTS...... 22

JORDAN-ISRAEL-EGYPT 11 DAY PROGRAM...... 22

EGYPT - ADD ON -TOURS CAIRO - - 5 DAYS / 4 NIGHTS...... 24

CAIRO & SUBURBS TOUR 4 DAYS / 3 NIGHTS...... 24

CAIRO & CRUISE 9 DAYS / 8 NIGHTS...... 25

EXODUS - EGYPT, JORDAN ISRAEL 14 DAYS / 13 NIGHTS...... 26

TURKEY: THE ROUTE OF ST. PAUL 10 DAYS / 9 NIGHTS...... 28

GREECE AND TURKEY...... 30

TOUR: “TOPKAPI” 4 DAYS/ 3 NIGHTS...... 32

PRIVATE TOURS AND VIP TRAVEL...... 33

GUARANTEED DEPARTURE ON 1ST AND 3RD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH...... 34

GUARANTEED DEPARTURE TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN THE HOLYLAND...... 35

CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND CELEBRATING 3 HOLY MASSES 8 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS...... 36

SPECIAL EVENTS – PAST AND FUTURE...... 38

AGRICULTURAL TOURISM...... 40

2 www.veredgo.com CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS have amazing healing powers. Return to IN THE HOLYLAND Jerusalem for dinner and overnight.

Th Rd HAIFA 27 Dec: Jordan Valley, Tiberias 23 Dec: Arrival - Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Bethlehem, TIBERIAS Jerusalem cana After breakfast drive along the Jordan Th 24 Dec: Jerusalem, Bethlehem MUHRAKA Valley to Tiberius on the . Th 25 Dec: Jerusalem Visit the Mount of Beatitudes, where Th 26 Dec: , Dead Sea CAESAREA Jesus preached the Sermon on the 27Th Dec: Jordan Valley, Tiberias 28Th Dec: Mt. Tabor, Boat Ride, Yardenit Mount. Visit Tabgha,, the site of the TEL AVIV 29ThDec: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, Haifa, JORDAN VALLEY Miracle of the Multiplication. Visit Caesarea, Departure , where Jesus began his JERICHO Rd JERUSALEM preaching career. Check into hotel in 23 Dec: Arrival - Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Tiberius for dinner and overnight. Bethlehem, Jerusalem BETHLEHEM DEAD SEA Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport where 28Th Dec: Mt. Tabor, Boat Ride, you will be met by a Vered tours Yardenit Representative. After breakfast drive to Mt. Tabor, the Visit the Metropolitan city of Tel Aviv, Th site of the Miracle of the Transfiguration- drive through the main streets and past 25 Dec: Jerusalem take a Boat Ride on the Sea of Galilee MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! the main places of interest. Visit the with time for prayer and reflection. After late breakfast enter the old city of ancient Seaport of Jaffa, known to be Enjoy traditional St. Peter’s Fish Lunch Jerusalem. Visit the Church of St. Anne the oldest seaport in the world. Proceed Continue to “Yardenit” traditional and the Pools of Bethesda. Walk along to Jerusalem and check into hotel in Baptismal Site. Return to hotel for dinner the Via Dolorosa following the Stations Jerusalem for dinner and overnight. and overnight. of the Cross. Visit the Church of the Holy Th Sepulchre. Visit the Western Wall and 24 Dec: Jerusalem, Bethlehem 29Th Dec: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, view the Temple Mount . Walk along the After breakfast drive up the Mount of Haifa, Caesarea, Departure Cardo, ancient Roman Road. Visit Mount Olives for a wonderful view of the Old After breakfast drive to Cana, the site Zion, the Hall of the Last Supper and the City of Jerusalem. Visit the Church of the First Miracle where Jesus turned Dormition Abbey. of Dominus Flevit, the Pater Noster water into Wine. Continue to Nazareth to Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Church- continue to the Church and visit the Church of Annunciation. Proceed Garden of Gethsemane and the Church Th to Muhraka where confronted the of All Nations. Continue to the Church 26 Dec: Jericho, Dead Sea priests of . Continue to Haifa for After breakfast drive to Jericho, known to of St. Peter in Gallicantu built on the site wonderful view of the city and harbor. be the oldest town in the world. View the of the house of the High Priest Caiphas Proceed to Caesarea, ancient excavated Mount of Temptation and the Sycamore Proceed to Bethlehem to participate city with many Roman and Crusader Tree. Passing , the site where in the Christmas Celebrations in ruins. Transfer to the Airport for your the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, Bethlehem. Enjoy dinner in this ancient departure flight. city and the Midnight Christmas Mass. proceed to the Dead Sea, where you can Return to hotel for overnight. experience floating in these waters which

www.veredgo.com 3 CATHOLIC GROUP TO of Herod established here the city by the name of Caesarea Philippi. Take a Boat THE HOLYLAND Ride on the Sea of Galilee with time for CAPERNAUM prayer and reflection. Visit Capernaum Day 1: Arrival Day TIBERIAS on the northwest shore of the sea of Day 2: Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Caesarea, Muhraka, Mt. Tabor, Nazareth, Tiberias MUHRAKA NAZARETH Galilee were Jesus began his preaching Day 3: Mt. of Beatitudes, Banias, Capernaum, Boat career. Drive to Yardenit where the Ride, Jordan River CAESAREA Jordan River flows into the Sea of Day 4: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea, Jerusalem Galilee, traditional baptism site. Return Day 5: Old City of Jerusalem JORDAN RIVER Day 6: New City of Jerusalem And Bethlehem TEL AVIV to hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 7: Departure Day 4: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea, JERICHO Day 1: Arrival Day JERUSALEM QUMRAN Jerusalem Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. You will BETHLEHEM After breakfast drive to Jericho a be met by a Vered representative and flourishing oasis in the Judean Desert. DEAD SEA assisted through customs. Check into Ascend to Mt. of Temptation by Cable hotel In Tel Aviv for dinner and overnight. Car. On to Qumran remains of a settlement on the northwest shore of the Day 2: Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Caesarea, Dead Sea and the site of the Qumran Muhraka, Mt. Tabor, Nazareth, Tiberias the Crusader period. Prominent among Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were After breakfast view the Metropolitan these are the hippodrome, the Crusader discovered by desert Bedouins. Travel city of Tel Aviv and visit Jaffa. Continue city and the Roman amphitheater. to the Dead Sea called the "Sea of Salt" along the coastal road to Caesarea an Continue to Muhraka with a breathtaking which is the lowest spot on the surface ancient Mediterranean city containing view of the north of Israel. Here Elijah many ruins most of which date from confronted and defeated the Priests of Baal. Continue to Nazareth an Arab city in the Galilee with many Churches and Monasteries, where Jesus grew to manhood. Continue to Cana the site of the first Miracle. Proceed to Mt. Tabor. Ascend to the summit . Check into hotel in Tiberias for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Mt.of Beatitudes, Banias,Capernaum, Boat Ride, Jordan River (Yardenit) After breakfast drive to Mt. of Beatitudes where Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount. On to Banias one of the main sources of the Jordan River. Philip son

4 www.veredgo.com of the globe. Here you can experience Day 6: New City of Jerusalem And floating and swimming in these waters Bethlehem which have amazing healing powers. Drive up Mount of Olives-a mountain Drive to Jerusalem and check into hotel to the east of the Old City. Christian in Jerusalem for dinner and overnight. tradition maintains that many events related to the life of Jesus took Day 5: Old City of Jerusalem place on the mountain. Visit Yad Enter old city and walk along the Via Vashem Holocaust memorial. Drive Dolorosa also called the Way of the to Bethlehem the site of the tomb of Cross. There are 14 Stations along the and the birthplace of Jesus. route each commemorating an event The town is dominated by the Church along Jesus' route to crucifixion. Visit of the Nativity, built on the grotto where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Jesus was born. It has many other Walk through colorful bazaars. View the sites of great historical and religious Temple Mount in the southeast corner interest. Return to hotel for dinner and of the Old City. Visit the Western Wall overnight. part of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount. Continue to the Cardo the Day 7: Departure main street of the ancient Jewish Quarter You will be transferred to Ben Gurion of the old City which has recently been Airport and a Vered representative fully excavated and restored and shops will help you through your formalities. and galleries have opened along the Departure flight. street. Visit Mount Zion and the hall of the Last Supper and King David's Tomb. Daily mass will be arranged for Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. the group.

www.veredgo.com 5 PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND Nearby, visit the Church of St. Joseph. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. 8 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS CAPERNAUM Day 4: Boat Ride, Mt of Beatitudes, HAIFA tabgha Day 1: Arrival, Tel Aviv TIBERIAS Capernaum, Tabgha, Yardenit cana Day 2: Ceasarea, Haifa, Tiberias After breakfast view the ancient boat Day 3: Mt. Tabor, Cana, Nazareth NAZARETH that was excavated on the shores of Day 4: Boat Ride, Mt of Beatitudes, Capernaum, CAESAREA the Galilee, believed to have been used Tabgha, Yardenit during the time of Jesus. After which Day 5: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea, Jerusalem Day 6: Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, Wailing Wall TEL AVIV take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee as Day 7: Old City of Jerusalem, Mt. Zion, Israel Jesus and the apostles did. Drive up the Museum Mt. of Beatitudes, where Jesus preached Day 8: Bethany, Ein Karem, Emmaus, Departure JERICHO JERUSALEM QUMRAN the Sermon on the Mount. Proceed to BETHLEHEM Capernaum where Christ went to live Day 1: Arrival, Tel Aviv DEAD SEA after He left Nazareth. See the ruins of Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport where you an ancient synagogue, one of the earliest will be met and assisted by a Vered and best preserved of the Galilean representative. Drive to your hotel in Tel synagogues. On to the church built over Aviv for overnight. the ruins of what was believed as the see the aqueduct, now partly buried in house of St. Peter. Proceed to Tabgha Day 2: Ceasarea, Haifa, Tiberias drift sand. Drive north to Haifa and visit and visit the Benedictine Church of the After breakfast proceed to the crusader the Stella Maris. On to the Carmelite Multiplication and Church of St. Peter’s port city of Caesarea to see the Roman Monastery, Chapel of the Holy Family Primacy. Drive to Yardenit, a traditional Amphitheatre and Crusader fortress. and Elijah’s Cave. Begin the drive baptismal site on the Jordan River for the Short drive to Caesarea’s northern tip to to Tiberias for check in, dinner and renewal of baptismal vows. Drive back to overnight. the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Mt.Tabor, Cana, Nazareth Day 5: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea, After breakfast drive to Mt. Tabor where Jerusalem according to tradition the miracle of the After breakfast drive along the Jordan Transfiguration of Christ took place. Next Valley and through the desert to Jericho, stop is Cana where Jesus performed believed to be the oldest city. View the His first miracle at the request of His Mount of Temptation from afar. Continue mother. Couples will have the chance to on to Qumran, where the Dead Sea renew their marriage vows. Drive back scrolls were discovered. Proceed to to Nazareth and visit the Basilica of the the Dead Sea which is also called Annunciation in Nazareth erected over “Sea of Salt” and is the lowest spot the grotto where according to tradition, on the surface of the globe. Here you the archangel announced to Mary can experience floating and swimming that she would be the mother of Christ. in these waters which have amazing

6 www.veredgo.com healing powers. Drive up to Jerusalem Field where appeared to the and check into hotel for dinner and shepherds to announce the birth of overnight. Jesus. Last stop is the holiest site of the Jewish nation, the Western Wall. Back to Day 6: Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, the hotel for dinner and overnight. Wailing Wall After breakfast we drive up the Mount Day 7: Old City of Jerusalem, Mt. of Olives stopping at the Church of the Zion, Israel Museum Ascension then the Church of Pater After breakfast, proceed to the old city Noster where we will see different of Jerusalem stopping first at the Church translations of the Lord’s Prayer. Walk of St. Anne and the pool of Bethesda. along the Palm Sunday Road passing by Continue walking along the Via Dolorosa, the Franciscan Church of the Dominus also called the “Way of the Cross”. There Flevit, where the Lord wept and shed are fourteen stations along the route a tear for the city of Jerusalem. We each commemorating an event along continue on the Palm Sunday Road Jesus’ route to crucifixion. End up at the ending at the Garden of Gethsemane Church of the Holy Sepulchre. On to Mt. and the Church of All Nations. On Zion to visit the room of the Last Supper, to Bethlehem to visit the Church of King David’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity built over the tomb of St. Dormition, where the Blessed Virgin Geronimo. In the grotto under the altar, Mary fell into eternal sleep. Continue on see the silver star which marks the place to the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, of Jesus’ birth. Next door to the Church built on the site of the house of high of the Nativity is the Roman Catholic priest Caiaphas. It is on this site that church of St. Catherine. It is in this Peter denied Jesus three times. Visit church that Christmas midnight mass is the Israel Museum to see the Second celebrated and relayed throughout the Temple Model and the Dead Sea Scrolls. world via satellite. Visit the Shepherd’s Drive back to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Bethany, Ein Karem, Emmaus, Departure After breakfast visit Bethany, the village future mother of Jesus with the words of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. It is the “blessed art thou among women”. Mary scene of the great miracle of the raising responded with the “Magnificat”, a song of Lazarus to life by Jesus. On to Ein of praise to the Lord. Proceed Emmaus Karem, the birthplace of . in Abu Gosh, where you will find a tiny A slow and uphill climb to the Church of Romanesque Crusader city built in 1142 the Visitation where Mary went to see atop three Roman cisterns. Continue to her cousin Elizabeth who greeted the the airport for your departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 7 HOLY LAND Nazareth where Jesus grew to manhood. Visit the Churches, and proceed to Cana 13 DAYS /12 NIGHTS the site of the first Miracle where Jesus CAPERNAUM AKKO SEA OF tabgha turned water into wine. Here it is possible Day 1: Arrival – Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Netanya GALILEE TIBERIAS to renew marriage vows in the Wedding Day 2: Caesarea, Muhraka (Mt, Carmel) Akko cana Day 3: Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, Sea Of Galilee Church. MUHRAKA Day 4: Boat Ride, Boat Museum, Tabgha, NAZARETH Continue to Tiberias on the Sea of

Capernaum CAESAREA Galilee and check into your Day 5: Mt. of Beatitudes, Korazin, Yardenit NETANYA hotel on the shores of the Sea of Galilee Day 6: Beit Alpha, Beit Shean, Belvoir where you can enjoy time swimming in Day 7: Jordan Valley, Jericho, Jerusalem TEL AVIV Day 8: Bethlehem, City of David the Galilee. Dinner and overnight on the Day 9: Mt. of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Kibbutz. Church of All Nations, Pools of Bethesda, Church of JERICHO JERUSALEM St. Anne, Via Dolorosa, Western Wall QUMRAN BETHLEHEM Day 4: Boat Ride, Boat Museum, Day 10: Qumran, Mesada, Dead Sea DEAD SEA Tabgha, Capernaum Day 11: Yad Vashem, Ein Karem, St. Peter Iin MASSADA Gallicantu After breakfast take a Boat Ride on Day 12: Hall of The Last Supper, Tomb of King the Sea of Galilee. Time for prayer David, Old City, Garden Tomb and reflection on the water. Visit the Day 13: Departure Drive through Tel Aviv and along the Boat Museum where you can see the Day 1: Arrival - Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Coast to the Resort Town of Netanya. “Jesus Boat” which was brought up Netanya Rest of the day at leisure to unwind after from the bottom on the Sea of Galilee. Arrive Ben Gurion Airport where you will your long flight. Time to relax and swim in Visit Tabgha the site of the feeding of be met by Vered Tours representative- the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. Check the multitudes and then proceed to Visit the Ancient Sea Port of Jaffa, known into hotel for dinner and overnight. Capernaum where Jesus preached in to be the oldest Seaport in the world. the Ancient Synagogue. Return to your Day 2: Caesarea, Muhraka(Mt, hotel for dinner and overnight. Time to Carmel) Akko enjoy a swim in the Sea of Galilee before After breakfast drive along the coast dinner. to the Roman city of Caesarea with its amazing excavations. After visit continue Day 5: Mt. of Beatitudes, Korazin, to Mt. Carmel where Elijah confronted Yardenit the priests of Baal. Continue to Akko After breakfast drive up the Mt. of (Acre) with its imposing extensive Beatitudes where Jesus preached the Crusader ruins, many khans, bazaars Sermon on the Mount. Drive through and . Check into hotel in the the area and visit the Town of Korazin. area for dinner and overnight. Proceed to Yardenit traditional Baptism site on the Jordan River for Baptism DAY 3: Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, in the same waters where Jesus was Sea of Galilee baptized by John the Baptist. Return to After breakfast drive to the town of your hotel for dinner and overnight. Time

8 www.veredgo.com to enjoy a swim in the Sea of Galilee Day 9: Mt. of Olives, Garden of before dinner. Gethsemane, Church of All Nations, Pools of Bethesda, Church of St. Day 6: Beit Alpha, Beit Shean, Anne, Via Dolorosa, Western Wall Belvoir After breakfast drive up the Mount of After breakfast visit the excavations at Olives for wonderful view of the Old Beit Alpha of the wonderful floor City of Jerusalem. Walk along the of a 6th Century synagogue. Continue Palm Sunday Road to the Garden of to Beit Shean to visit the extensive Gethsemane. Visit the Church of All archaeological excavations and then Nations. Enter the Old city of Jerusalem proceed to the Crusader castle of Belvoir through the St. Stephens Gate and visit overlooking the Jordan Valley. Return to the Pools of Bethesda where Jesus your hotel and time to enjoy a swim in cured the Paralytic man. Visit the Church the Sea of Galilee before dinner. of St. Anne and begin your walk along the Via Dolorosa starting from Lithstrotus Day 7: Jordan Valley, Jericho, ( Judgement Hall) following the Stations Jerusalem of the Cross. Visit the Western Wall. After breakfast drive along the Jordan Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Valley to the Ancient City of Jericho. Enter Jericho and view the Mt. of Day 10: Qumran, Mesada, Dead Sea Temptation and the Tel Jericho. Jericho After breakfast drive to visit Qumran is the oldest inhabited city in the world. where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls Visit the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu Continue to Jerusalem and check into were discovered. Continue to Mesada built on the site of the house of the High your hotel for dinner and overnight. and ascend to the cliff top fortress by Priest Caiaphas. Cable Car to inspect the ruins of Herod’s Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 8: Bethlehem, City of David palace and fortifications which later After breakfast drive to the city of served the Zealots to resist the Romans. Day 12: Hall of The Last Supper, Bethlehem to visit the Church of Descend by Cable Car and proceed to Tomb of King David, Old City, Nativity where Jesus was born and the the Dead Sea to enjoy floating in the Garden Tomb Shepherds Fields where the shepherds waters of the Dead Sea which have After breakfast visit Mt. Zion, the Hall of were tending their flocks when they amazing healing powers. The Dead Sea the Last Supper and the Tomb of King heard a heavenly chorus and followed is the lowest place in the world. Return David. Enter the Old City walking through the Star to Bethlehem. . Time for to your hotel in Jerusalem for dinner and the colorful bazaars. Continue to the Shopping in Bethlehem. overnight. Garden Tomb for prayer and reflection. Leave Bethlehem and drive back to Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Jerusalem to visit the City of David, Day 11: Yad Vashem, Ein Karem, St. excavations of the original City of David, Peter Iin Gallicantu Day 13: Departure outside the Walls of the Old City. After breakfast visit Yad Vashem Breakfast in hotel - Rest of day at leisure Return to hotel for dinner and holocaust Memorial. Continue to EIN until transfer to Airport for your departure overnight. Karem the Birthplace of John the Baptist. flight.

www.veredgo.com 9 Holy Week – Palm Sunday to Basilica of Annunciation in Nazareth and visit Mary‘s Well. Return to Tiberius Easter Sunday. to Yardenit the traditional Baptism site CAPERNAUM

tabgha on the Jordan River. Return to hotel for Day 1: Arrival to The Holy Land TIBERIAS dinner and overnight. Day 2: Bethlehem, Jerusalem MT.CARMEL cana Day 3: Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Tiberias NAZARETH Day 4: Cana, Nazareth, Yardenit Day 5: Boat Ride, Capernaum, Mt. of Day 5: Boat Ride, Capernaum, Mt. of Beatitudes, CAESAREA Beatitudes, Tabgha. Tabgha. TEL AVIV After breakfast take a boat ride on the Day 6: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea. Sea of Galilee. Time for prayer and Day 7: Old City of Jerusalem Day 8: Emmaus, Ein Karem. reflection. Visit Capernaum visiting the Day 9: Easter Sunday Synagogue and the house. Continue JERICHO Day 10: Morning At Leisure - Departure. JERUSALEM QUMRAN to the Mount of Beatitudes where BETHLEHEM Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Day 1: Arrival to The Holy Land Mount. Then on to Tabgha the site of Arrive to Tel Aviv Airport where you will DEAD SEA the Miracle of the Multiplication. Drive be met by your guide. Transfer to your along the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem hotel for dinner and overnight. and check into your hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 2: Palm Sunday, Bethlehem, Old City following the procession of the Jerusalem many tourists visiting the Old City on this Day 6: Jericho, Qumran, Dead Sea. After breakfast drive to Bethlehem to visit special Sunday. Visit the Western Wall of After breakfast drive to Jericho to visit the the Church of Nativity where Jesus was the ancient Temple. Return to your hotel oldest city in the world. View the Mount born and the Shepherds fields. Return to for dinner and overnight. of Temptation and the Sycamore Tree. Jerusalem and drive up to the Mount of Continue to the caves of Qumran where Olives and begin the Palm Sunday walk Day 3: Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Tiberias the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. to the Old City of Jerusalem. Enter the After breakfast drive along the coastal Drive to the Dead Sea to enjoy floating road to Caesarea. Visit the excavations in waters which have amazing healing of these Roman and Crusader ruins. powers. Return to your hotel for dinner Visit Muhraka, where Elijah confronted and overnight. the priests of Baal. Continue to Mt. Tabor and ascend to the summit. The site of Day 7: Good Friday. Old City of the Miracle of the Transfiguration. Drive Jerusalem to Tiberias and check into your hotel for After breakfast return to the Mount of dinner and overnight. Olives to visit the Church of All Nations and the Garden of Gethsemane. Enter Day 4: Cana, Nazareth, Yardenit the old city visit the Pools of Bethesda After breakfast drive to Cana, to visit the and the Church of St. Anne. Walk along Church of the First Miracle where Jesus the Via Dolorosa following the stations turned water into wine. Continue to the of the cross. Visit the Church of the

10 www.veredgo.com Holy Sepulchre. In the afternoon visit Day 9: Easter Sunday Mt. Zion, the Hall of the Last Supper After breakfast return to the old city of and Dormition Abbey. Continue to the Jerusalem to join the Mass in the Church Church of St. Peter in Galicantu, but on of the Holy Sepulchre on this special the site of the house of the High Priest Sunday. Time to enjoy the bazaars of the Caiaphas. Return to your hotel for dinner Old City of Jerusalem. Walk along the and overnight. Cardo, ancient Roman Road. Visit Yad Vashem, Holocaust memorial. Return to Day 8: Emmaus, Ein Karem. hotel for dinner and overnight. After breakfast drive to ancient Emmaus. Continue t Ein Karem, the birthplace of Day 10: Morning At Leisure - St John the Baptist. Visit the Church of Departure. Visitation where Mary visited her cousin, After breakfast, day at leisure until time Elizabeth. Return to hotel for dinner and for departure to Airport for your flight overnight. home.

www.veredgo.com 11 of Baal. Drive to Rosh Hanikra. The SPECIAL HIKING TOUR OF ISRAEL BANIAS ROSH HA’NIKRA waves lapping at the foot of the cliff have "OUTDOORS IN ISRAEL " MT.MERON CAPERNAUM GAMLA carved labyrinthine grottos out of the SEA OF GALILEE white cliffs which jut into the sea called Day 1: Arrival - Jaffa, Tel Aviv MT.CARMEL the Ladders of Tyre. A cable car will Day 2: Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Rosh Hanikra, Mt. BEIT SHE’AN take you from the top of the cliffs to the Meron, Sea of Galilee. CAESAREA Day 3: Mount of Beatitudes, Good Fence, Tel , fascinating grottos below. Next, its inland Banias, Tel Fachar, Castle, Golan Heights, TEL AVIV toward the region of Galilee, stopping at Birkat Ram. Mt. Meron, 4,000 feet above sea level Day 4: Mt. Arbel, Boat Ride, Capernaum, Gamla, JERICHO JERUSALEM and the highest summit in Galilee. After Gedera, Jordan River. QUMRAN BEIT GUVRIN Day 5: Belvoir, Beit Shean, Jericho, Qumran, Dead climbing the steep path to the ruins of DEAD SEA Sea. an ancient synagogue, you will descend Day 6: Arugot, Ein Gedi MASSADA to the dark cave where Israel's most Day 7: Flour Caves, Large Crater, Yerucham, Nachal TEL SHEVA arad famous Rabbi Hillel the Elder is buried. Zim, Ein , Mamshit Day 8: Massada, Arad, (Possible Camel Ride) Tel From there you will climb for two miles on a steep rocky path to the "Throne of Sheva, Yad Mordechai, Ashkelon, Beit Guvrin, Elah hamachtesh Valley, Jerusalem hagadol Messiah" where ancient Jews believed Day 9: Mt. of Olives, Garden Tomb, Calvary, Old the Messiah would appear and Elijah, City, Abu Gosh his forerunner would flow his trumpet to Day 10: Jerusalem Day 11: Departure Day. of Simon the Tanner. To your right are the herald the deliverance of Israel. You will beautiful plains of Sharon. To your left finish this exciting day by driving down Day 1: Arrival - Jaffa, Tel Aviv you will see the sun just beginning to set the steep descent to the beautiful blue Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport where you in the blue Mediterranean Sea. Check Sea of Galilee, 600 feet below sea level, will be met by Vered Tours representative into Hotel for dinner and overnight. and checking into the lovely guest house Drive through ancient Jaffa( Joppa) at Nof Ginossar Kibbutz on the western where Peter had his vision on the rooftop Day 2: Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Rosh shore. After dinner you will relax and go Hanikra, Mt. Meron, Sea of Galilee. to sleep hearing the waters of the Galilee After breakfast travel north along the blue lapping outside your window. Mediterranean to Caesarea an ancient Mediterranean city halfway between Tel Day 3: Mount of Beatitudes, Good Fence, Aviv and Haifa, containing many ruins Tel Dan, Banias, Tel Fachar, Nimrod most of which date from the Crusader Castle, Golan Heights, Birkat Ram. period. Prominent among these are the Before dawn gather on beach to watch hippodrome, the Crusader city and the the sun rise above the Golan Heights. Roman amphitheater. Walk through the After breakfast drive to Mount of Roman Colosseum, visit the Crusader Beatitudes site of Jesus' Sermon on the city, clamber on 2000 year old Roman Mount. Continue to the Good Fence and Aqueduct. Continue north to summit of visit Tel Dan Nature Reserve. Proceed , where you will learn of to Banias (Caesarea Philippi) one of Elijah's experience with the prophets the main sources of the Jordan River

12 www.veredgo.com which runs through lush woodlands and hotel for breakfast. After breakfast take ends in a broad lagoon in the shadow a Boat Ride across the Sea of Galilee to of Mount Hermon. Philip son of Herod Capernaum on the northwest shore of established here the city by the name the sea of Galilee were Jesus began his of Caesarea Philippi and the town is preaching career. The town is also well mentioned in the New Testament and known during , Roman Talmud. Visit Tel Fachar and then on and Byzantine periods. Visit Gamla, the to . Drive up the Golan first outpost to fall during the Jewish Heights the site of fierce battles between Revolt against Rome. Two mile round Israel and Syria during 1967 and 1973. trip hike to ruins of city and fortress. An and then visit Birkat Ram a natural pool easy descent and an invigorating climb on the northern Golan Heights with water back. Visit to Gadara where Jesus has sources from both underground flow and His encounter with the wildman in the rainwater. Legend claims a connection Cemetery. Climb down the steep bank between the pool and the sources of the to a remarkable beach of pebbles. From Banias . This pool serves as a reservoir there you will drive to a beautiful spot for settlements in the area. Return to on the Jordan River where some of the hotel for dinner and overnight. group will be baptized. After Baptismal service return to Nof Ginosar for dinner Day 4: Mt. Arbel, Boat Ride, and overnight. Capernaum, Gamla, Gedera, Jordan River. Day 5: Belvoir, Beit Shean, Jericho, Early Morning visit Mt. Arbel with its Qumran, Dead Sea. half mile hike to the summit. Return to After breakfast travel back 2000 years Valley and Dead Sea. After lunch head driving south through the Jordan Valley south along the beautiful Dead Sea to up high mountains to the ancient the caves of Qumran where the Dead Crusader castle of Belvoir. Explore the Sea Scrolls were discovered. Continue castle, drive south to ruins of Roman south past great salt deposits. Before Amphitheater at Beit Shean. Continue dinner there is time for a quick swim. south, with every kilometer telling a Dinner and overnight at hotel on the Biblical Story on the way to Jericho- shores of the Dead Sea. oldest and lowest city in the world. Northwest of city, hanging precariously Day 6: Wadi Arugot, Ein Gedi on a steep cliff, is the Monastery of Today is a wonderful all day desert hike The Temptation, Quarantal. Close by or to remain at the hotel to swim in the Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness Dead Sea. Hike starts with a drive up after He was tempted by . Walk the coast to beautiful Wadi Arugot in the the steep easy path to the monastery Desert near the entrance of Ein for a visit then climb above the building Gedi. Here David hid from King . Ten for spectacular view of Jericho, Jordan mile trek through Wadi to high springs.

www.veredgo.com 13 Stop at one of the clear refreshing pools 30km long, 8 km wide and 200 meters to swim or relax in the shade of lush deep. An ancient Nabatean fort lies to foliage. Following steep desert path, hike the east. Visit Yerucham And up canyon to beautiful waterfall which an ancient city south of Beersheba, built feeds stream to Dead Sea. Area abounds by the Nabateans in the 2nd Century at in wildlife, Ibex, Mountain sheep and the a major trade crossroad in the Negev unique little Coney. Carry box lunch from Desert. The remains have been partially hotel which you can eat at the waterfall. reconstructed and Avdat is one of Take time for swim and stretch out on the most important monuments from a warm rock to dry. Return to hotel for the Roman, Nabatean and Byzantine delicious dinner and overnight. periods in the entire Negev. Return via MAMSHIT to the Dead Sea. Dinner and Day 7: Flour Caves, Large Crater, overnight at hotel. Yerucham, Nachal Zim, Ein Avdat, Mamshit Day 8: Massada, Arad, (Possible After breakfast proceed to the Flour Camel Ride) Tel Sheva, Yad Caves. Proceed to the Large Crater Mordechai, Ashkelon, Beit Guvrin, dramatic act in Jewish history when lying between the Zin Desert and the Elah Valley, Jerusalem Jewish rebels elected mass suicide Oaran Wadi close to the town of Mizpe Early morning walk up the snake path rather than submit to Roman capture in Ramon, this is the largest of three to Massada a massive rocky outcrop in 73 A.C. The site has been fully excavated natural craters that are among the most the Judean Desert 2km from the shore and the remains of Herod's impregnable striking of the Negev's features. It is of the Dead Sea and the site of the most fortress have been exposed, as have the remains of the eight roman army camps that surrounded the mountain, and the rebel's living quarters. See the wonderful Sunrise. Return to hotel for breakfast. After breakfast return to Massada and ascend by Cable Car for visit of the area. Visit Tel Sheva and Yad Mordechai south of Ashkelon, a Kibbutz since 1943 named after Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. On this site signs of fierce battles in the War of Independence are seen and remains of the shelled water tower were left as a tribute. Sites include a mark in memory of the fallen, a model of the 1948 battle site and a museum of the Holocaust ghetto resistance and a military history of the Negev desert.

14 www.veredgo.com Proceed to Ashkelon and the Bell Cave Western Wall, drive to Abu Gosh where at Beit Guvrin. Proceed through the Elah is believed to have Valley, where David Slew Goliath and rested. Return to Jerusalem via the check into hotel in Jerusalem for dinner ancient Emmaus Road as Jesus did the and overnight. evening of His resurrection. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 9: Mt. of Olives, Garden Tomb, Calvary, Old City, Abu Gosh Day 10: Jerusalem Pre dawn wake up call. Atop Mount After breakfast either remain in of Olives experience sunrise over Jerusalem for shopping in the Old City or "Jerusalem of Gold". Return to hotel hike on the Jericho Road. Eight mile hike for breakfast. After breakfast visit the down the mysterious Wadi Kelt dried beautiful Garden Tomb outside the riverbed through the Judean wilderness, city walls next to the ancient site of close to the place where Elijah was bed Calvery. Pause, remember and celebrate by ravens. Hike part of the aqueduct communion. Remainder of the morning which brought water from Jerusalem to in Jerusalem's Old City. Enjoy a Falafel Jericho. Climb to visit the St. Georges lunch in the Jewish Quarter, visit the Monstery. Bus back to Jerusalem passing

the INN of the Good Samaritan. Watch the sun set over the village of Jesus' birth. After dinner at hotel head back to Mt. of Olives for time of quiet meditation above Garden Of Gethsemane to share stories of the cross . Return to hotel full of thoughts and worship.

Day 11: Departure Day.

www.veredgo.com 15 Itinerary for tour offers you the experience of gaining first- hand knowledge of the basic tenets of 7 days / 6 nights science and technology, which have

SEA OF GALILEE HAIFA made life so much more comfortable Day 01: Arrival, Tel Aviv - Jaffa TIBERIAS for us. The museum contains over four Day 02: Caesarea, Haifa, Tiberias hundred exhibits which are there for you, Day 03: Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea Day 04: Dead Sea, Jerusalem to experience and therefore make it easy

Day 05: Jerusalem CAESAREA for you to sample the different scientific Day 06: Jerusalem phenomena through actually handling Day 07: Jerusalem, Mini Israel Departure TEL AVIV them. You will be able to play with them and thus experience them first hand. Day 1: Arrival, Tel Aviv - Jaffa Here are some examples: How is a Arrival to Ben Gurion Airport where JERUSALEM sound wave created? What is a magnet? you will be met by Vered Hasharon Why do we see different colors? How representative. Drive to Tel Aviv to view does an electric motor work? How is a the Metropolitan city of Tel Aviv, driving DEAD SEA radio program transmitted? Drive to your through the main streets and past the hotel in Tiberias for dinner and overnight. main places of interest. Continue to visit Jaffa - south of Tel Aviv which is history during which you will be Day 3: Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea considered to be the world's oldest sea- introduced to the various civilizations that After breakfast drive to Mt. of Beatitudes, port. Much of Old Jaffa has been lovingly controlled the city. From Herod's time, to where Jesus preached the Sermon restored and now houses an artists the Roman Period; from the Byzantine on the Mount. Visit Capernaum on the colony and galleries, together with the Era, the , the to the northwest shore of the sea of Galilee many churches and mosques which first days of Zionism in the country as were Jesus began his preaching Career. make for a unique site. Check into hotel embodied by Baron Rothschild. Continue The town is also well known during in Tel Aviv for dinner and overnight. to Haifa, view the Bahai Gardens - Second Temple, Roman and Byzantine located in the heart of Haifa, comprise a periods. Take a Boat ride on the Sea of Day 2: Caesarea, Haifa, Tiberias staircase of nineteen terraces extending Galilee. Continue to the Dead sea, called After the breakfast drive along the all the way up the northern slope of the "Sea of Salt" and is the lowest spot coastal road to Caesarea, an ancient Mount Carmel. The golden-domed on the surface of the globe. Arrival at Mediterranean city halfway between Tel Shrine of the Báb, the resting place of Genesis land, situated in the heart of Aviv and Haifa, containing many ruins the Prophet-Herald of the Bahá’í Faith, the Judean desert, in the land where most of which date from the Crusader stands on the central terrace. Enjoy a the Patriarchs lived. A magical place, period. Prominent among these are trip by cable car, which offers you the it enables visitors to experience life as the hippodrome, the Crusader city magnificent view of the Carmel and the it was in biblical times. We shall meet and the Roman amphitheater. Reveal shore line. The cable car comprises Eliezer, the slave of and his Caesarea Experience - the film on all three transparent balls, which take you caravan of camels, which are waiting periods of time, a fascinating, moving right up the mountain and back again to take the guests to the reception in movie experience that will take you on down its slopes. Continue to the Haifa Abraham’s tent. Dinner and an overnight a magical journey through Caesarea's National Museum of Science, which experience in the tent.

16 www.veredgo.com Day 4: Dead Sea - Jerusalem to the present day, in its After the breakfast enjoy a jeep ride Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art across the endless desert landscape. and Life Wings, and features the most Drive to the Dead sea, experience extensive holdings of biblical and Holy floating and swimming in these waters Land archaeology in the world. Among which have amazing healing powers. the highlights of the Museum’s original to move in 6 different directions. This Drive to Jerusalem. Check into hotel for campus is the Shrine of the Book, unique and unforgettable experience dinner and overnight. which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the combines learning and enjoyment in oldest biblical manuscripts in the world, the best tradition of "Edutainment" Day 5: Jerusalem as well as rare early medieval biblical (Education + Entertainment). Continue After breakfast drive to the Old City manuscripts. Adjacent to the Shrine is to the City of David, an actual location of of Jerusalem to visit the holiest site of the Model of Jerusalem in the Second the Biblical City of Jerusalem, captured the Jewish nation, the Western Wall. Temple Period, which reconstructs the by King David over 3,000 years ago. After breakfast drive to the old city of topography and architectural character of Deep underground, the City of David Jerusalem stopping first at the Church the city as it was prior to its destruction is revealing some of the most exciting of St. Anne and the pool of Bethesda. by the Romans in 66 CE, and provides archeological finds of the ancient world. Continue walking along the Via Dolorosa, historical context to the Shrine’s While above ground, the city is a vibrant also called the “Way of the Cross”. There presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. center of activity with a visitor's center are fourteen stations along the route Dinner and overnight in the hotel in that welcomes visitors for an exciting each commemorating an event along Jerusalem. tour to the site where much of the Bible Jesus’ route to crucifixion. End up at the was written. Dinner and overnight in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Continue Day 6: Jerusalem hotel in Jerusalem. to the Bloomfield Science Museum. A visit After the breakfast visit Time Elevator, to the museum is an active experience a fascinating interactive experience that Day 7: Jerusalem, Mini Israel, for everyone. All the family joins guided takes the visitor to unforgettable voyages Departure exhibition tours, participates in science through fascinating places. Descend to After the breakfast, drive to Mini Israel, demonstrations and enjoys science Jerusalem's history of fly over Israel's the “Showcase of Israel”. Exhibited in it theatre. Kids build small apparatus wonders – It is all happening at the hundreds of amazingly exact models, that present scientific concepts. Time Elevator. Combining motion based at a scale of 1:25, of the most important Adults participate in exhibition tours that seating, panoramic screens, special architectural, historic, archeological, answer their intellectual needs. Everyone effects carefully synchronized to the religious and social sites as well as is invited to the Resource Center for action of the film; visitors have the buildings of importance to all religions reading, watching movies, use the sensation of viewing the movie as a and cultures inhabiting the country. The Internet and relaxation. participant rather than a spectator. 25,000 miniature “Israeli” residents in Continue to The Israel Museum, the A motion based seat system lets the the models are all… 7cm in height!! The largest cultural institution in the State of viewer to feel completely "swallowed- exhibit extends over an area of about Israel and is ranked among the world’s up" inside the experience. The 35,000 square meters (7.5 Acres). leading art and archaeology museums. revolutionary and innovative system Transfer to the airport for departure. For The Museum houses encyclopedic of motion based seats is the first of late departures, free time for shopping collections, including works dating from its kind in Israel, with each seat able and then transfer to the airport.

www.veredgo.com 17 Greek Orthodox - Pilgrimage the First Miracle. After that you will be transported to Mt. Tabor to visit the Church to Holy Land of the Transfiguration after which you

CAPERNAUM 9 Days AKKO will be driven to the summit. Dinner and tabgha overnight will be at a hotel in Tiberias on HAIFA TIBERIAS Day 1: Tel Aviv, Lod, Jaffa-Tel Aviv cana the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Day 2: Caesarea, Haifa, Akko, Nazareth Day 3: Nazareth, Cana, , Tiberias NAZARETH Day 4: Mt of Beatitudes, Tabgha, Capernaum, Day 4: Mt of Beatitudes, Tabgha, CAESAREA Yardenit BEIT SHE’AN Capernaum, Yardenit Day 5: Jordan Valley, Beit Shean, Jericho, Jerusalem In the morning visit the Mt. of Beatitudes Day 6: Jerusalem TEL AVIV which is the site where Jesus preached Day 7: Jerusalem LOD the Sermon on the Mount. This will Day 8: Bethlehem, Bethany, Wadi Kelt, Qumran, Dead Sea, Jerusalem JERICHO be followed by a visit to the site of the QUMRAN Day 9: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv JERUSALEM Miracle of the Multiplication at Tabgha. BETHLEHEM From there to Capernaum followed by a Day 1: Tel Aviv, Lod, Jaffa - Tel Aviv boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. Continue DEAD SEA On arrival at Ben Gurion Airport our to the traditional baptism site at Yardenit. representative will be there to meet you. The day will end with a visit to Banias You will then be transported to Lod for which is the source of the Jordan River a visit to St George’s Church. After that Breakfast at the Hotel to be followed after which you will return to the Hotel for travel to Jaffa’s ancient port, the site of by a drive to Caesarea along the dinner and overnight. the embarkation of the Prophet. Mediterranean coast, where you will see Dinner and overnight in Tel Aviv. the excavations of Herod the Great’s Day 5: Jordan Valley, Beit Shean, capital city. After that drive to Mount Jericho, Jerusalem Day 2: Caesarea, Haifa, Akko, Carmel and Haifa to see the sites and Today will start with a drive to one of Nazareth other places of interest connected to the Israel’s oldest cities, Beit Shean, to view Prophet Elijah. This will be followed by this fascinating archaeological site. This a visit to view the historical sites from will be followed by a drive to the most different periods at the ancient port of Akko. Continue to Nazareth for dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 3: Nazareth, Cana, Mount Tabor, Tiberias The day begins with visits in Nazareth to St. Gabriel’s Church, the Basilica and ancient Grotto of the Annunciation, the Church of the Holy Family and the Church of Mary’s Well. Travel to Kfar Cana and visit the site of the Marriage Feast and

18 www.veredgo.com ancient city in the world, Jericho, after Day 7: Jerusalem which you will ascend by cable car to Today will start after breakfast with a the Qarantal Monastery on the Mount of visit to King David’s Tomb, the Dormition Temptation. Dinner and overnight will be Abbey as well as a visit to the Hall of in Jerusalem the Last Supper. There will be a visit to see the Dead Sea Scrolls and a model Day 6: Jerusalem of Jerusalem at the time of the Second In the morning after breakfast you will Temple at the Shrine of the Book. Drive be driven to see the incredible views to view the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament), of Jerusalem’s old city from the Mount continuing on to the Greek Orthodox of Olives. The day will be spent visiting Monastery of the Cross. Dinner and such places as the Chapel of Ascension, overnight in Jerusalem the Church of Mary Magdalene, the Gardens and Tomb of the Virgin Mary. Day 8: Bethlehem, Bethany, Wadi The Old City is also included in today’s Kelt, Qumran, Dead Sea, Jerusalem sightseeing starting with following the Your day will begin with a drive to Stations of the Cross along the Via Bethlehem via the Mar Elias Monastery. Dolorosa. Then a visit to the Church of On the way to the Basilica of the Nativity the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple Mount in Bethlehem you will visit Rachel’s tomb Area and the Western Wall. On to the followed by a visit to Bethany, home birthplace of John the Baptist at Ein of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. After Karem and the Church of the Visitation. that you will be driven to St. George’s Return to Jerusalem hotel for dinner and Monastery via Wadi Kelt, along the Old overnight. Jericho Road, the place where the Profit

Elijah was fed to the Ravens. After that there will be a visit to where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a cave at Qumran. Finally enjoy the unique experience of floating in the healing waters of the Dead Sea. Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem

Day 9: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv After Breakfast in your Jerusalem hotel, you will be transported to Ben Gurion Airport in time for your departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 19 tabgha CAPERNAUM cana TIBERIAS Day 5: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, REGIONAL ITINERARY MUHRAKA NAZARETH Caesarea , Jerusalem JORDAN, ISRAEL, EGYPT CAESAREA After breakfast drive to Cana the site of the First Miracle where Jesus turned Day 1: Arrival, Amman AMMAN water into wine. Visit the Wedding Day 2: Amman, Madaba, Mt. Nebo JERUSALEM MT.NEBO Church where couples can renew their Day 3: Depart Jordan, Tiberias, Mt, Beatitudes, BETHLEHEM DEAD SEA Tabgha, Capernaum. Marriage Vows. Proceed to Nazareth, MADABA Day 4: Boat Ride, Yardenit, Mt. Tabor, Tiberias where Jesus grew to Manhood. Visit Day 5: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, Caesarea , the Church of Annunciation. Continue Jerusalem Day 6: Jerusalem, Bethlehem to Muhraka, where Elijah confronted the Day 7: Church of St. Peter In Gallicantu, Dead Sea, priests of Baal. Taba Border Drive along the coastal road to the Day 8: Mt. Sinai, Cairo ancient excavated city of Caesarea. Day 9: Cairo CAIRO TABA BORDER Continue to the holy city of Jerusalem Day 10: Cairo, Departure CHECK POINT I and check into hotel for dinner and A N SI T. M overnight. Day 1: Arrival, Amman TO Arrive Amman Airport where you will be met and transferred to hotel in Amman Day 6: Jerusalem, Bethlehem Day 3: Depart Jordan, Tiberias, Mt, for dinner and overnight. After breakfast drive up the Mount of Beatitudes, Tabgha, Capernaum. Olives. Walk down the Palm Sunday After breakfast drive to Sheik Hussein Road to the Garden of Gethsemane. Day 2: Amman, Madaba, Mt. Nebo Bridge to cross into Israel After breakfast full day orientation tour Visit the Church of the Agony, Enter the Proceed to Tiberias. Drive up Mt. of of Amman, Visit Madaba, Mt. Nebo and old city and visit the Pools of Bethesda Beatitudes where Jesus preached the return to hotel for dinner and overnight. and the Church of St.Anne. Walk along Sermon on the Mount, Visit Tabgha the site of the Miracle of the Multiplication. Visit Capernaum where Jesus began his preaching career. Check into hotel in Tiberias for dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Boat Ride, Yardenit, Mt. Tabor, Tiberias After breakfast take a Boat Ride on the Sea of Galilee. Time for prayer and reflection. Proceed to Yardenit, traditional Baptism Site. Continue to Mt. Tabor, Ascend to the Summit by Taxi to the Church of the Transfiguration. Return to Tiberias for dinner and overnight.

20 www.veredgo.com the Via Dolorosa following the Stations of the Cross. Visit the Church of the Holy Sepurchre. Visit Mt. Zion, the Hall of the Last Supper. Proceed to Bethlehem, visit the Church of Nativity and the Shepherds Fields. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Church of St. Peter In Gallicantu, Dead Sea, Taba Border After breakfast visit the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, built on the site of the High Priest Caiaphas. Leave Jerusalem and drive to the Dead Sea, the lowest place on the surface of the earth. Experience a swim in these waters which have amazing healing powers. Continue through the Desert to the Border at Taba to Cross into Egypt. You will be met by Egyptian tour guide and bus and drive to St. Catherine. Check into hotel in Sinai Desert for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Mt. Sinai, Cairo Early morning walk up Mt. Sinai to see the Sunrise. Return to hotel for breakfast. Leave and drive through the desert to Cairo. Check into hotel in Cairo for dinner and overnight. entertainment. Return to hotel for dinner Day 9: Cairo and overnight. Full day tour visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza. The valley of the Temple and the Day 10: Cairo, Departure Sphinx. After breakfast sightseeing tour of Cairo Visit the Egyptian museum. Visit the Visit the Mohamed Ali Mosque and the Khan el Khalili Bazaar. Enjoy an evening Old city of Cairo. Transfer to Airport for cruise on the Nile with Dinner and your departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 21 HAIFA cana Sermon on the Mount. Proceed to Tabgha JORDAN-ISRAEL-EGYPT NAZARETH CAESAREA and visit the Benedictine Church of the 11 DAY PROGRAM Multiplication and Church of St. Peter’s Primacy. View the ancient boat that was Day 1: Amman AMMAN excavated on the shores of the Galilee, Day 2: Amman, Petra, Amman JERICHO JERUSALEM believed to have been used during the Day 3: Amman, Sheik Hussein, Mt. Tabor, Tiberias Day 4: Jordan River (Yardenit)-Capernaum-Mount BETHLEHEM time of Jesus. After which take a boat ride Of Beatitudes, Tabgha, Nazareth on the Sea of Galilee as Jesus and the Day 5: Cana, Haifa, Caesarea, Jerusalem apostles did. On to Nazareth to visit the Day 6: Old City of Jerusalem, Mt. Zion-Israel Museum Basilica of the Annunciation erected over Day 7: Mt. of Olives, Ein Karem Day 8: Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Sea, Wailing Wall, the grotto where according to tradition, Jerusalem the archangel Gabriel announced to Mary PETRA Day 9: Jerusalem, Taba Border, St. Catherine that she would be the mother of Christ. Day 10: Mt. Sinai, Cairo Nearby, visit the Church of St. Joseph. CAIRO Day 11: Cairo TABA BORDER Back to the hotel for dinner and overnight. CHECK POINT ne ri Day 1: Amman he at C t. S Day 5: Cana, Haifa, Caesarea, Arrival in Amman. Visit the City of & ai in S t. Jerusalem M Madaba, site of the oldest mosaic map of to Jerusalem. Visit Mt. Nebo where Moses After breakfast proceed to Cana where pointed to the Promised Land. Drive Return to Amman for dinner and Jesus performed His first miracle, at to the hotel for check-in, dinner and overnight. the request of His mother. Couples will overnight. have the chance to renew their marriage Day 3: Amman, Sheik Hussein, Mt. vows. On to Haifa to visit the Stella Maris Day 2: Amman, Petra, Amman Tabor, Tiberias Church and Elijah’s Cave. On to the After breakfast drive to the lost City of After breakfast transfer to Sheik Hussein crusader port city of Caesarea to see Petra. Enjoy a horse ride through the Border to cross to Israel. Drive to Mt. the Roman Amphitheatre and Crusader picturesque Siq and visit the Treasury, Tabor where according to tradition the fortress. On to Jerusalem for check-in, Royal Tombs and Roman Theater. miracle of the Transfiguration of Christ dinner and overnight. took place. On to Tiberias for check-in, dinner and overnight. Day 6: Old City of Jerusalem, Mt. Zion, Israel Museum Day 4: Jordan River (Yardenit), After breakfast drive to the Old City of Capernaum, Mount Of Beatitudes, Jerusalem stopping first at the Church Tabgha, Nazareth of St. Anne and the Pool of Bethesda. After breakfast drive to Yardenit, a Continue walking along the Via Dolorosa, traditional baptismal site on the Jordan also called the “Way of the Cross”. There River for the renewal of baptismal vows. are fourteen stations along the route each Proceed to Capernaum where Christ went commemorating an event along Jesus’ route to live after He left Nazareth. On to the Mt. to crucifixion. End up at the Church of the of Beatitudes, where Jesus preached the Holy Sepulchre. Drive to Mt. Zion and visit

22 www.veredgo.com the room of the Last Supper, King David’s Karem. Visit the birthplace of John the Tomb and the Church of Dormition, where Baptist. A slow and uphill climb to the the Blessed Virgin Mary fell into eternal Church of the Visitation where Mary went sleep. Continue on to the Church of St. Peter to see her cousin Elizabeth who greeted in Gallicantu, built on the site of the house the future mother of Jesus with the of high priest Caiaphas. It is on this site that words “blessed art thou among women”. Peter denied Jesus three times. Visit the Mary responded with the “Magnificat”, a Israel Museum to view the Dead Scrolls and song of praise to the Lord. Drive back to the Second Temple Model. Drive back to the the hotel for dinner and overnight. hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 8: Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Day 7: Mt. of Olives, Ein Karem Sea, Wailing Wall, Jerusalem After breakfast we drive up the Mount After breakfast on to Bethlehem to visit of Olives stopping at the Church of the the Church of the Nativity built over the Ascension then the Church of Pater tomb of St. Geronimo. In the grotto under Noster where we will see different the altar, see the silver star which marks translations of the Lord’s Prayer. Walk the place of Jesus’ birth. Next door to along the Palm Sunday Road passing by the Church of the Nativity is the Roman the Franciscan Church of the Dominus of St. Catherine. It is in Flevit, where the Lord wept and shed this church that Christmas midnight mass a tear for the city of Jerusalem. We is celebrated and relayed throughout the continue on the Palm Sunday Road world via satellite. Visit the Shepherd’s ending at the Garden of Gethsemane Field where angels appeared to the and the Church of All Nations. On to Ein shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. On to Jericho, believed to be the oldest city in the world to view the Mt. of Day 10: Mt. Sinai, Cairo Temptation and an old Sycamore Tree. Early morning climb to Mt. Sinai. Proceed to the Dead Sea, the lowest Descend then take your breakfast. spot on earth, to experience floating Time permitting, visit the St. Catherine at its therapeutic waters. Drive back to Monastery then start the drive to Cairo Jerusalem stopping at the Wailing Wall passing by the Exodus route. Check-in, before proceeding to the hotel for dinner dinner and overnight. and overnight. Day 11: Cairo Day 9: Jerusalem, Taba Border, St. After breakfast proceed to the Pyramids Catherine of Giza, Sphinx then to the Papyrus After breakfast, depart Jerusalem to factory and the Perfumery. On to Old Taba Border to cross to Egypt. Drive to Cairo to visit the Hanging Church and St. Catherine for check-in, dinner and the crypt of the Holy Family. Transfer to overnight. the airport for departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 23 JORDAN -ADD ON -TOUR EGYPT - ADD ON-TOURS CAIRO & SUBURBS TOUR 3 days/ 2 nights CAIRO - MT. SINAI 4 days / 3 nights 5 days / 4 nights Day 1: Amman Day 1: Cairo Day 2: Amman, Petra Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara Day 1: Cairo Day 3: Amman Day 3: Cairo Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara Day 4: Cairo Day 3: Cairo Day 1: Amman Day 4: Cairo, Mt. Sinai Arrive at Amman airport or land border Day 5: Mount Sinai, Eilat Day 1: Cairo from Israel and transfer to the hotel Arrive Cairo airport and transfer to your Day 1: Cairo hotel for overnight. Day 2: Amman, Petra Arrive Cairo airport and transfer to hotel– Depart to Petra where you will see the overnight in Cairo Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, pink city where the Nabatean's lived Sakkara 300 years BC. Walking tour through the Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, Tour to Memphis and Sakkara, the Ciq Canyon. The Treasury (al-Khazna). Sakkara Great Pyramids of Giza. The valley of Tour to Memphis and Sakkara, the The ruins of this palatial building. Small the Temple and the Sphinx. Overnight in Great Pyramids of Giza. The valley of tombs, some Roman, some Nabataean, Cairo. the Temple and the Sphinx. Overnight in are carved into the mountain sides in Cairo. Petra. The spectacular monastery, the Day 3: Cairo largest monument in Petra. Day 3: Cairo Full day visiting the Egyptian Museum, Return to Amman for overnight. Full day visiting the Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Mohamed Ali Mosque, Old City, Citadel, Mohamed Ali Mosque, Old City, The Hanging Church, Continue to Khan Day 3: Amman The Hanging Church, Continue to Khan Khalili Bazaar. Overnight in Cairo. Drive to Mount Nebo where Moses saw Khalili Bazaar. Overnight in Cairo. the Promised Land. Continue to Madaba Day 4: Cairo to see the famous Byzantine Mosaic with Day 4: Cairo, Mt. Sinai Transfer to Airport for departure flight. the map of Jerusalem. Transfer to Airport Depart Cairo via the Suez Canal. Cross for departure or to Israeli land border. the Sinai desert , passing the Elim Oasis and arrival to Mount Sinai area for overnight.

Day 5: Mount Sinai, Eilat Very early morning Climb up Mt. Sinai for Sunrise. Return to hotel for breakfast. Visit St. Catherine Monastery. See the Burning Bush. Continue to Taba Border to cross into Israel. This can be reversed by crossing Taba Border to Mt. Sinai and ending in Cairo for departure flights.

24 www.veredgo.com CAIRO & NILE CRUISE 9 days / 8 nights EILAT CAIRO

Day 1: Cairo GIZA Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara SAKKARA MEMPHIS Day 3: Cairo, Aswan, Cruise Day 4: Cruise, Kom Ombo, Edfu EGYPT Day 5: Cruise, Esna, Luxor Day 6: Cruise, Luxor Day 7: Cruise, Luxor, Cairo Day 8: Cairo LUXOR Day 9: Cairo EDFU

Day 1: Cairo KOM OMBO Arrive Cairo airport and transfer to your ASWAN hotel for overnight.

Day 2: Cairo, Pyramids, Memphis, and Agha Kahn Mausoleum. Dinner and Sakkara overnight on board. Tour to Memphis and Sakkara, the Great Pyramids of Giza. The valley of Day 4: Cruise, Kom Ombo, Edfu the Temple and the Sphinx. Overnight in Visit the Dam of Aswan, the Temple of Cairo. Filae and the granite quarry. Sailing to Kom Ombo and visit to the Temple. Day 3: Cairo, Aswan, Cruise Continue to Edfu. Dinner and overnight Transfer to airport for flight to Aswan. on board. Arrival and transfer to the port to board the cruise ship. Visit to Kitchene island Day 5: Cruise, Esna, Luxor Visit the Temple of Edfu. Sail to Sena temple for visit. Continue to Luxor. airport to take flight to Cairo. Arrive Dinner and overnight on board. in Cairo and transfer to the hotel for overnight. Day 6: Cruise, Luxor Visit the of the Nile with the Day 8: Cairo Valley of the Kings and Queens. The Full day visiting the Egyptian Museum, nobles and the temple of Dir El Bahari. Citadel, Mohamed Ali Mosque, Old City, Dinner and overnight on board. The Hanging Church, Continue to Khan Khalili Bazaar. Overnight in Cairo. Day 7: Cruise, Luxor, Cairo Visit to Luxor and Karnak temples. Day 9: Cairo Disembarkation and transfer to the Transfer to Airport for departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 25 akko CAPERNAUM crossing between Israel and Jordan. tabgha HAIFA SEA OF GALILEE EXODUS - EGYPT, JORDAN ISRAEL TIBERIAS cana Cross into Jordan where you will be met 14 DAYS/ 13 NIGHTS NAZARETH by your Jordanian guide and driver and CAESAREA transferred to Petra for overnight. Day 1: Cairo Day 2: Memphis, Giza AMMAN JERICHO MT.NEBO Day 6: Petra, Amman Day 3: Cairo QUMRAN Day 4: Cairo, Suez Canal, St. Catherine JERUSALEM Morning visit of Petra - Afternoon DEAD SEA Day 5: St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai, Petra. MASSADA departure to Amman. Panoramic City Day 6: Petra, Amman tour. Overnight in Amman Day 7: Amman, Mt. Nebo, Jerusalem Day 8: Qumran, Massada, Dead Sea Day 9: Caesarea,Haifa, Acre, Galilee, Tiberias Day 7: Amman, Mt. Nebo, Jerusalem Day 10: Galilee, Capernaum, Tabgha, Mt of City tour of Amman and visit to Mt Nebo.

Beatitudes, Jordan River. SINAI Cross into Israel where you guide and Day 11: Tiberias, Cana, Nazareth, Jordan Valley, driver will meet you. Transfer to hotel in Jericho, Jerusalem CAIRO Day 12: Jerusalem and Bethlehem giza Jerusalem for overnight. memphis suez TABA BORDER Day 13: Jerusalem CHECK POINT Day 14: Jerusalem Day 8: Qumran, Massada, Dead Sea & i e n a i n r i e S Drive to Massada passing Qumran

. h t t a M C O . t Day 1: Cairo T where the Dead Sea Scrolls were S Arrival to Cairo Airport and transfer to Day 3: Cairo discovered. Visit Massada and the Dead hotel – Overnight Cairo. City tour of Cairo including - Egyptian Sea. Ascend by Cable Car to visit the Museum, the Citadel, Mohamed Ali last Fortress of the Zealots with the Day 2: Memphis, Giza Mosque, the Old City and Khan el Khalili excavations of Herod’s Palace, Roman Visit Memphis, Sakkara, the Pyramids of Bazaar. Overnight in Cairo. Baths, etc. Descend by Cable Car and Giza, the Sphinx. Overnight in Cairo. drive to the Dead Sea for the unique Day 4: Cairo, Suez Canal, St. experience of floating in these waters Catherine Depart Cairo and drive via the Suez Canal to St. Catherine for overnight.

Day 5: St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai, Petra. Those wishing to climb up Mt. Sinai will begin their climb in the early hours of the morning. Ascend to Mt. Sinai. Return to the hotel for breakfast. Visit the Monastery of St. Catherine, the Burning Bush. Drive to the Taba border crossing between Egypt and Israel, where your bus and guide will meet you and transfer you to the border

26 www.veredgo.com which have amazing healing powers. Day 11: Tiberias, Cana, Nazareth, Overnight in Jerusalem Jordan Valley, Jericho, Jerusalem Drive from Tiberius to Cana, the site Day 9: Caesarea, Haifa, Acre, of the First Miracle. Visit the Wedding Galilee, Tiberias Church – where you can renew your Drive along the coastal road to the Marriage Vows. Proceed to Nazareth, excavated city of Caesarea. Drive Church of Annunciation and Mary's Well. through the port city of Haifa to Ancient Drive along the Jordan Valley to the Akko ( Acre). Visit this ancient Crusader ancient town of Jericho. View the Mount City with its many excavations. Continue of Temptation and the Sycamore tree. to Tiberias and check into hotel for dinner Continue to Jerusalem and check into and overnight. your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 10: Galilee, Capernaum, Tabgha, Day 12: Jerusalem and Bethlehem Mt of Beatitudes, Jordan River. Visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, Take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. the Shepherds Fields and the Church Visit Capernaum and the ancient of Nativity. Time for shopping for Olive Synagogue. Visit Tabgha, the site of the Wood articles. Return to Jerusalem and Miracle of the Multiplication. Drive up visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. the Mount of Beatitudes where Jesus Continue to Ein Karem, birthplace of preached the Sermon on the Mount. John the Baptist. Return to hotel for Time for Baptism in the Jordan River, dinner and overnight. traditional baptism site where Jesus was Baptized by John the Baptist. Return to Day 13: Jerusalem hotel for dinner and overnight . Drive up the Mount of Olives. Visit the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of All Nations. Enter the Old City of Jerusalem. Visit the Pools of Bethesda and the Church of St. Anne. Walk along the Via Dolorosa following the Stations of the Cross. Visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Walk through the colorful bazaars to the Western Wall. Visit Mt. Zion – the Hall of the Last Supper, the Tomb of King David and the Dormition Abbey. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 14: Jerusalem Transfer to Airport for departure flight.

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10 days / 9 nights ISTANBUL

Day 1: Arrival to Istanbul. ANKARA Day 2: Istanbul. CANAKKALE

Day 3: Istambul, Canakkale. PERGAMON Day 4: Canakkale, Pergamon, Izmir, Kusadasi. PAMUKKALE

Day 5: Kusadasi, Ephesus, Pamukkale. IZMIR Day 6: Pamukkale, Konya, Cappadocia. EPHESUS KONYA Day 7: Capadoccia KUSADASI Day 8 : Cappadocia, Ankara. Day 9: Ankara, Istanbul. Day 10 : Departure.

Day 1: Arrival to Istanbul. Sophia, the most influential church of Arrival to the airport of Istanbul, Byzantium, it still stands today as one assistance and transfer to the hotel. of the world's greatest architectural Dinner and overnight. marvels. Then visit the Blue Mosque, another Day 2: Istanbul. of the world's most important religious Start the day with a visit to Haghia buildings. Built in the 16th century the Day 4: Canakkale, Pergamon, Izmir, mosque is unique for it's 6 minarets Kusadasi. and celestial interior decorated with the Breakfast and departure to the old city famous blue tiles of Pergamon, one of the old centers of Next, visit the Hippodrome, scene of culture, commerce and medicine. Visit chariot races. to the great Acropolis (the Altar of Zeus, Obelisk of Theodosius, the Serpentine Asclepios, etc) Lunch and departure to Column and the Column of Constantine Izmir for a panoramic view of the city. The grand Topkapi Palace, residence of Continue to Kussadasi. Dinner and Ottoman 's from the 15th to the overnight. 19th century. Overnight. Day 5: Kusadasi, Ephesus, Day 3: Istambul, Canakkale. Pamukkale. Departure to Canakkale situated on the Breakfast. Departure to Ephesus, the Asian side of the Dardanelles strait. best conserved old city on Minor Asia Lunch and departure to Troy, the famous During the I and II centuries the city had old city which remains, the other poetic 250.000 inhabitants and was the name the Iliad of Homer. Visit to the Monopoly of richness in the Middle Trojan Horse. Dinner and overnight at East. Visit to Adrian’s Temple, The Canakkale Roman Baths, the Library, The Odeon,

28 www.veredgo.com the Theater ,etc. Visit The Virgin Mary’s the natural citadel of Uchisar. We will house, The Basílica of St John. Lunch then visit the Goreme Valley and the and drive to Pamukkale. Overnight. open air museum featuring ancient churches with colorful frescoes, Day 6: Pamukkale, Konya, which are hewn from the rock. The Cappadocia. next stop is Pasabagi Valley , with its In the morning visit the ancient site of vineyards, volcanic cones and monk's Hierapolis including Theater, Apollo dwellings. We will then visit the famous Temple and Necropolis, then the calcium pottery center of Avanos. Overnight. terraces of Pamukkale. Today we will also visit the Greek-Roman site of Day 8: Cappadocia, Ankara. Aphrodisias. Lunch and continue to Breakfast and departure to Ankara, Cappadocia. Dinner and overnight. capital of the Turkish Republic,. Lunch on route, arrival to Ankara. P.M visit Day 7: Capadoccia the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Today we explore Cappadocia with which is located in a restored bazaar. the the underground city of Kaymakli and Mausoleum of Ataturk, which serves as a

tribute to the founder of modern Turkey. Dinner and overnight.

Day 9: Ankara, Istanbul. Breakfast and departure by bus to Istanbul. Arrival, transfer to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.

Day 10: Departure. Breakfast and transfer to the airport.

www.veredgo.com 29 Greece and Turkey main square. Dinner and overnight Izmir. (B.L.D)

Day 1: Arrive Istanbul Day 2: Istanbul Day 4: Sardis, Philadelphia, Day 3: Izmir, Smyrna ISTANBUL Pamukkale Day 4: Sardis, Philadelphia, Pamukkale Today we visit Sardis, Philadelphia, and Day 5: Laodicea, Kusadasi Pamukkale, one of the most picturesque ANKARA Day 6: Ephesus CANAKKALE areas. King Croesus of Sardis was the Day 7: Priene, Bodrum Day 8: Bodrum, Istanbul, Athens PAMUKKALE first to mint pure gold & silver coins here,

Day 9: Corinth, Athens IZMIR guaranteed by the face value. In Sardis Athens EPHESUS Day 10: Athens, Cruise KONYA we will visit the temple, the beautiful KUSADASI Day 11: Athens, Istanbul Byzantine church, and the Roman - Day 12: Return Home era synagogue. We continue on to BODRUM Philadelphia where we will visit the great Day 1: Arrive Istanbul Basilica with some 11th century frescoes. Welcome to Turkey! Upon arrival in We then visit Pamukkale - cotton castle Istanbul our professional tour escort will - an apt description of the natural meet & assist us to our private deluxe master piece of Byzantine architecture, phenomenon of fantastic white limestone motor coach for transfer to the hotel. the Blue Mosque and its magnificent terraces. A fantastic sight at sunset to Welcome reception and orientation. Time interior with blue tiles. Topkapi Palace to see the necropolis and the great baths to unpack and rest. Tonight dinner at a see the treasures of the , and the of Hierapolis. Overnight Pamukkale. local restaurant. (D) Hipppdrome, where chariot races took place during the Roman empire. Time to (B.L.D.) Day 2: Istanbul have lunch and browse the shops and Day 5: Laodicea, Kusadasi After buffet breakfast we begin touring the famous Grand Bazar, the largest After breakfast we depart for Kusadasi. of Istanbul, including; St. Sophia's - the and oldest covered market in the world. Dinner and overnight Istanbul. (B.D.) En route we will visit Laodicea which was at the crossroads between Sardis and Day 3: Izmir, Smyrna Perge. We continue on to the beautifully After breakfast we transfer to the airport excavated Aphrodisias, the city of for the short flight to Izmir, proceeding Aphrodite, with its near perfect stadium, on to ancient Smyrna, a mosaic of theatre, and temple. Afternoon arrival 50 centuries of civilization sharing in Kusadasi, a seaside resort town. with Athens the longest history of any Overnight Kusadasi. (B.D.) Mediterranean civilization. It was here that St. Polycarp, a disciple of St. John, Day 6: Ephesus met a martyr's death at the age of 92 in Today a full day visit to Ephesus. St. 155 AD. After hotel check in and lunch, we visit the Church of Smyrna, one of the Paul called it "the most beautiful city famous Seven Churches of Asia Minor in all the world." The great library, the and tour the highlights of this ancient amphitheater where Paul addressed city including the one time European an angry pagan mob, the tower where

30 www.veredgo.com St. Paul was imprisoned and wrote the the ancient and splendid amphitheater letters to the Ephesians. It was here that After lunch we continue down the Agean in 431 AD the historic Third Ecumenical coast to visit the ancient city of Miletuis Council convened and declared Mary the - the most prosperous city of the 6th Mother of Jesus, and where the Virgin century BC. Nearby we visit Didyma, site Mary spent her final years between of the Temple of Apollo. Afternoon arrival 37 and 48 AD with St. Paul. We will in the seaside city of Bodrum, where the also visit the house of the Virgin Mary Castle of St. Peter, built by order of the spectacularly located above the ruins. Pope in 1402, guards the entrance to It is believed that St. John brought the semi-circular Bodrum Bay. Dinner and Virgin Mary to Ephesus, and that she overnight Bodrum. (B.L.D.) spent the rest pf her days in this house on the hilltop. The home is visited by Day 8: Bodrum, Istanbul, Athens thousands of pilgrims each 1ear, and After breakfast we transfer to the airport Pope John Paul II celebrated mass here for the flight to Istanbul. Arrival Istanbul and in the Church of the Virgin Mary. We and transfer to flight for Athens. Arrival also visit St. John’s Basilica, believed Athens. After hotel check-in and lunch, to have been built over the tomb of we will visit some of the highlights of the apostle, and the temple of Diana ~ ancient Athens including the Pnyx, one of the seven wonders of the world. Acropolis and Parthenon. Tonight dinner Return to Kusadasi for overnight. (B.L.D) at a typical Greek retaurant. Overnight Athens (B.D.) Day 7: Priene, Bodrum Athens. Tonight a farewell dinner After breakfast we depart Kusadasi for Day 9: Corinth, Athens with music and Greek dancing! the resort town of Bodrum. En route we Today we visit ancient Corinth. Time to (B.D.) will visit Priene, called the absolutely explore the marketplace and Temple perfect place for a picnic! Here we visit of Apollo, and the museum. Return to Day 10: Athens, Cruise Full day cruise of the Greek Islands. Return to Athens. Dinner on your own tonight. Overnight Athens. (B.L.)

Day 11: Athens, Istanbul Transfer to airport for flight to Istanbul. Free time to do some last minute souvenir shopping. Dinner and overnight Istanbul. (B,D)

Day 12: Return Home Transfer to the airport for our return flight home.

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Day 1: Arrival to Istanbul. ISTANBUL Day 2: Istanbul. Day 3: The Bosphorus. Bosphorus Day 4: Departure from Istanbul.

Day 1: Arrival to Istanbul. Arrival to the airport of Istanbul, assistance and transfer to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Istanbul. Start the day with a visit to Haghia Sophia, the most influential Byzantine chariot races. Church , it still stands today as one of the Obelisk of Theodosius, the Serpentine world's greatest architectural marvels. Column and the Column of Constantine Then visit the Blue Mosque, another The grand Topkapi Palace, residence of of the world's most important religious Ottoman Sultan's from the 15th to the buildings. Built in the 16th century the 19th century. Overnight. mosque is unique for it's 6 minarets and celestial interior decorated with the Day 3: The Bosphorus. famous blue tiles Enjoy a morning scenic cruise on the Next, visit the Hippodrome, scene of Bosphorus, the strait connecting the

Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. The ferry stops on both the Asian and European sides. Visit of Rumelihisar fortress, the Summer Palace and the old houses of wood. The cruise ends at a fishing town called Sariyer, near the Black Sea. Drive by bus crossing the intercontinental bridge above the Bosphorus from Europe to Asia till Camlica Hill for a panoramic view. Return to the hotel.

Day 4: Departure from Istanbul. Transfer from the hotel to the airport.

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34 www.veredgo.com GUARANTEED DEPARTURE TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN THE HOLYLAND Valley to Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee. 23Rd Dec: Arrival, Jerusalem Visit the Mount of Beatitudes, where Th HAIFA 24 Dec: Jerusalem, Bethlehem TIBERIAS Th Jesus preached the Sermon on the 25 Dec: Jerusalem cana Th 26 Dec: Jericho, Dead Sea MUHRAKA Mount. Visit Tabgha,, the site of the NAZARETH 27Th Dec: Jordan Valley, Tiberias Miracle of the Multiplication. Visit Th 28 Dec: Mt. Tabor, Boat Ride, Yardenit CAESAREA Capernaum, where Jesus began his Th 29 Dec: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, Haifa, preaching career. Check into hotel in Caesarea TEL AVIV 30Th Dec: Departure JORDAN VALLEY Tiberius for dinner and overnight.

Th Rd JERICHO 28 Dec: Mt. Tabor, Boat Ride, 23 Dec: Arrival, Jerusalem JERUSALEM Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport where Yardenit you will be met by a Vered tours BETHLEHEM After breakfast drive to Mt. Tabor, the DEAD SEA Representative . site of the Miracle of the Transfiguration Transfer to Jerusalem and check into - take a Boat Ride on the Sea of Galilee hotel for dinner and overnight. with time for prayer and reflection. the Via Dolorosa following the Stations Enjoy traditional St. Peter’s Fish Lunch 24Th Dec: Jerusalem, Bethlehem of the Cross. Visit the Church of the Holy Continue to “Yardenit” traditional After breakfast drive up the Mount of Sepulchre. Visit the Western Wall and Baptismal Site. Return to hotel for dinner Olives for a wonderful view of the Old view the Temple Mount . Walk along and overnight. City of Jerusalem. Visit the Church of the Cardo, ancient Roman Road. Visit Th Dominus Flevit, the Pater Noster Church- Mount Zion, the Hall of the Last Supper 29 Dec: Cana, Nazareth, Muhraka, continue to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Dormition Abbey. Haifa, Caesarea and the Church of All Nations. Continue Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. After breakfast drive to Cana, the site to the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu of the First Miracle where Jesus turned Th built on the site of the house of the High 26 Dec: Jericho, Dead Sea water into Wine. Continue to Nazareth Priest Caiphas Proceed to Bethlehem to After breakfast drive to Jericho, known to to visit the Church of Annunciation. participate in the Christmas Celebrations be the oldest town in the world. View the Proceed to Muhraka where Elijah in Bethlehem. Enjoy dinner in this Mount of Temptation and the Sycamore confronted the priests of Baal. Continue ancient city and the Midnight Christmas Tree. Passing Qumran, the site where to Haifa for wonderful view of the city and Mass. Return to hotel for overnight. the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, harbor. Proceed to Caesarea, ancient proceed to the Dead Sea, where you can excavated city with many Roman and 25Th Dec: Jerusalem experience floating in these waters which Crusader ruins. Proceed to Tel Aviv and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! have amazing healing powers. Return to check into hotel for dinner and overnight. After late breakfast enter the old city of Jerusalem for dinner and overnight. Th Jerusalem. Visit the Church of St. Anne 30 Dec: Departure Th and the Pools of Bethesda. Walk along 27 Dec: Jordan Valley, Tiberias After breakfast transfer to Airport for your After breakfast drive along the Jordan departure flight.

www.veredgo.com 35 CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND Multiplication and Church of St. Peter’s Primacy. After which take a boat ride CELEBRATING 3 HOLY MASSES on the Sea of Galilee as Jesus and the 8 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS apostles did. In the afternoon, drive up CAPERNAUM TABGHA to Mt. Tabor where according to tradition Sunday:Arrival, Tel Aviv TIBERIAS the miracle of the Transfiguration of cana Monday: Muchraka, Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias Christ took place. Return to hotel for Tuesday: Mt of Beatitudes, Capernaum, Tabgha, Boat MUHRAKA NAZARETH dinner and overnight. Ride, Mt. Tabor Wednesday: Jordan River, Jericho, Dead Sea, Jerusalem Wednesday: Jordan River, Jericho, Thursday: Bethlehem, Ein Karem, Wailing Wall TEL AVIV Dead Sea, Jerusalem Friday: Mount of Olives, Old City of Jerusalem After breakfast drive to Yardenit, a Saturday: Mt. Zion, Israel Museum, Emmaus, Tel traditional baptismal site on the Jordan Aviv JERICHO Sunday: Departure JERUSALEM River for the renewal of baptismal vows. OPTION 1: PETRA, JORDAN BETHLEHEM Drive along the Jordan Valley and Sunday: Tel Aviv, Eilat through the desert to Jericho, believed to Monday: Eilat, Petra, Eilat DEAD SEA Tuesday: Departure be the oldest city. Proceed to the Dead OPTION 2: CAIRO Sea which is also called “Sea of Salt” Sunday: Tel Aviv, Cairo Christ. Nearby, visit the Church of St. and is the lowest spot on the surface Monday: Cairo Joseph. Celebrate Mass In Nazareth. of the globe. Here you can experience Tuesday: Departure On to Cana where Jesus performed His floating and swimming in these waters first miracle, at the request of His mother. which have amazing healing powers. Sunday:Arrival, Tel Aviv Couples will have the chance to renew Drive up to Jerusalem and check into Arrival at the Ben Gurion Airport where their marriage vows. Begin the drive to hotel for dinner and overnight. you will be met BY Vered Hasharon Tiberias to check into hotel for dinner representative. Transfer to your hotel for and overnight. Thursday: Bethlehem, Ein Karem, dinner and overnight. Wailing Wall Tuesday: Mt of Beatitudes, Capernaum, After breakfast drive to Bethlehem to visit Monday: Muchraka, Nazareth, Cana, Tabgha, Boat Ride, Mt. Tabor the Church of the Nativity built over the Tiberias After breakfast drive to the Mt. of tomb of St. Geronimo. In the grotto under After breakfast drive north to the Beatitudes, where Jesus preached the altar, see the silver star which marks direction of Haifa to visit the Carmelite the Sermon on the Mount. Proceed to the place of Jesus’ birth. Next door to Monastery in Muchraka. It is on this Capernaum where Christ went to live the Church of the Nativity is the Roman summit that the dramatic battle between after He left Nazareth. See the ruins of Catholic church of St. Catherine. It is in Elijah and the prophets of Baal took an ancient synagogue, one of the earliest this church that Christmas midnight mass place. Drive to Nazareth and visit the and best preserved of the Galilean is celebrated and relayed throughout the Basilica of the Annunciation erected over synagogues. On to the church built over world via satellite. Visit the Shepherd’s the grotto where according to tradition, the ruins of what was believed as the Field where angels appeared to the the archangel Gabriel announced to house of St. Peter. Proceed to Tabgha shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. Mary that she would be the mother of and visit the Benedictine Church of the Celebrate Mass In Bethlehem Continue

36 www.veredgo.com to Ein Karem, the birthplace of John the Last Supper, King David’s Tomb and Baptist. A slow and uphill climb to the the Church of Dormition, where the Church of the Visitation where Mary went Blessed Virgin Mary fell into eternal to see her cousin Elizabeth who greeted sleep. Continue on to the Church of St. the future mother of Jesus with the words Peter in Gallicantu, built on the site of “blessed art thou among women”. Mary the house of high priest Caiaphas. It responded with the “Magnificat”, a song is on this site that Peter denied Jesus of praise to the Lord. On to the Old City three times. CELEBRATE MASS IN of Jerusalem to visit the holiest site of the JERUSALEM. Visit the Israel Museum Jewish nation, the Western Wall. Drive to see the Jerusalem Model as well as back to the hotel for dinner and overnight. the Dead Sea scrolls. On to Emmaus in Abu Gosh, where you will find a tiny Friday: Mount of Olives, Old City of Romanesque Crusader city built in 1142 Jerusalem atop three Roman cisterns. Continue to After breakfast we drive up the Mount Tel Aviv for dinner and overnight. Tuesday: Departure of Olives stopping at the Church of the After breakfast transfer to airport for your Ascension then the Church of Pater Sunday: Departure departure flight to Ben Gurion Airport to Noster where we will see different After breakfast transfer to airport for your connect to your flight home. translations of the Lord’s Prayer. Walk departure flight.. along the Palm Sunday Road passing by OPTION 2: CAIRO the Franciscan Church of the Dominus OPTION 1: PETRA, JORDAN Sunday: Tel Aviv, Cairo Flevit, where the Lord wept and shed Sunday: Tel Aviv, Eilat After breakfast transfer to airport for a tear for the city of Jerusalem. We After breakfast transfer to airport for your your flight to Cairo. Arrive Cairo where continue on the Palm Sunday Road flight to Eilat. Pick up at Eilat Airport you will be met by our representative ending at the Garden of Gethsemane and transfer to hotel – rest of the day at and transfer to hotel in Cairo. Evening and the Church of All Nations. In the leisure in Eilat - dinner and overnight. Dinner Cruise on the river Nile. Return to afternoon, enter the old city of Jerusalem hotel for overnight . stopping first at the Church of St. Anne Monday: Eilat, Petra, Eilat and the pool of Bethesda. Continue After breakfast transfer to Arava border Monday: Cairo walking along the Via Dolorosa, also crossing into Jordan where the Jordanian After breakfast visit the Egyptian called the “Way of the Cross”. There are Agent will wait for you and take you to museum with its many wonderful fourteen stations along the route each the wonderful "Red Rose City" of Petra, artifacts. Continue to visit the Pyramids commemorating an event along Jesus’ which was inhabited by the Nabateans of Giza and the Sphinx. Stroll through route to crucifixion. End up at the Church from 300 BC. Enjoy lunch in Petra and the Khan el Khalili bazaar. Dinner and of the Holy Sepulchre. Drive back to the walk through the dramatic "Ciq" Canyon. overnight in Cairo. hotel for dinner and overnight. See the Treasury, carved in pink stone and continue past the Roman Theatre, Tuesday: Departure Saturday: Mt. Zion, Israel Museum, the Corinthian Tomb and the Palace After breakfast transfer to the airport Emmaus, Tel Aviv Tomb to the Roman Road. Return to for your departure flight to Ben Gurion After breakfast visit the room of the Eilat for dinner and overnight. Airport to connect to your flight home.

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Religious Conferences – Incentives and Agricultural Seminars.

Joint College of Bishops Conference from USA to Rome 2004.

Gafcon - Global Anglican Future Pilgrimage and Conference.

Cinpec Pilgrimage – Senegal – 2007, 2009, 2011.

Spiritual evenings led by prominent South African Religious leaders – in Jerusalem and on the Shores of the Dead Sea – GIG 2010 and GIG 2011.

Gospel Africa Music Concert – 2011.

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"Norwegian Project" - 2005

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