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SPECIAL NOTES 1. All prices are per person double occupancy and are based upon rates currently in effect and are subject to change without notice. 2. Changes in the tour may by made without notice as necessitated by operational considerations. 3. The right is reserved to cancel any departure for lack of sufficient participation. 4. No refunds will be made on any unused portion of your tour. 5. All prices are based on a minimum of 10 passengers travelling together. 6. Deviations from the group itinerary will be assessed an administrative service charge in addition to any specific cost incurred by such deviation. 7. Please contact your group leader or Garlin Travel for details about the Tour Protection Plan.
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Click on the tour titles below for a detailed brochure. Tour 1 / The Holyland: 10 Days Featuring Jerusalem, Bethlehem, The Galilee, and much more! DAY 1 / DEPARTURE Begin your pilgrimage to the Holyland this evening with your flight to Israel. DAY 2 / Tel Aviv area Upon arrival you will be met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure. DAY 3 / Tel Aviv area / Galilee Travel the Mediterranean coast, where aquamarine waters wash beaches framed by ruined aqueducts, to Caesarea. See the Amphitheater, the Crusader City, the Byzantine street, the aqueduct and Herod’s Port. Continue along the coast to pine covered Mt. Carmel, where Elijah called down fire from Heaven. Visit Acco with it’s crusader ruins. Overnight in the Galilee. DAY 4 / Galilee Enjoy the lush vegetation and cascades at the Banias Nature Reserve. Explore the Sea of Galilee with a boat ride, where ancient fishing boats and modern craft ply waters long made sacred by gospel associations On the Mount of Beatitiudes, site of Sermon on the Mount, view the panorama of lake and mountain. Visit Tabgha and Capernaum, a lake side village. Enter the synagogue, the Church of the Loaves and Fishes, and St. Peter’s house. DAY 5 / Galilee / Jerusalem Leaving the Galilee this morning, visit Cana, where Jesus turned water into wine. On then to Nazareth, rimmed by low, green Galilean hills. Head south to Beth Shean, site of a well preserved Roman Theater. Travel along the Jordan Valley into Judea, a route traced by ancient and modern pilgrims. Take the old Jericho Road to Tel Jericho, where ongoing archeological excavations link this ancient city of the plain to Neolithic times. Visit Elisha’s Spring, where the prophet sweetened the waters. To the west rises the Mount of Temptation that commands the unforgettable panorama of the Jericho Plain and the Mountains of Moab. Ascend the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem and the Garden of Gethsemane, traditional site of Jesus’ arrest. Continue on to Jerusalem. DAY 6 / Jerusalem Tour the Old City today. Walk the narrow street of the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Dat- ing from the Crusades, the church is revered as the site of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. Enter the Arab Quarter to the Western Wall. Just inside St. Stephen’s Gate see St. Anne’s Church, renowned for its serenity and its flowering cloister. Enter the Praetorium, site of the trail of Jesus and his condemnation. Visit the Garden Tomb, revered by some Christians as the site of Jesus’ burial. Finally, visit Yad Vashem, the national memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust. An eternal flame burns as an everlasting memorial. Drive past the Knesset, modern Israel’s parliament, to the white domed Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls. DAY 7 / Jerusalem (Sunday) Enjoy Jerusalem on your own today. Take time to attend a special worship service, do additional sightseeing or just to walk around this inspiring city. You may also choose to do an optional day tour to one of the many attractions ringing the city. DAY 8 / Masada Drive to Wadi Kelt and view the Monastery of St. George, whose whitewashed walls and blue dome cling to the brown hillside. Continue to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, and to the Caves of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Drive along the Dead Sea to the fortress of Masada, built over 2,000 years ago, with its frescoes and mosaics still remarkably preserved. Here, Jewish defenders slew themselves and their families rather than surrendered to the Roman legions. Return to Jerusalem. DAY 9 / Jerusalem Travel to Bethlehem and visit the Church of the Nativity, site of Jesus’ birth. On the eastern slope of Mt. Zion visit the Tomb of David, where a cenotaph, a huge stone mon- ument, marks the royal memorial. Ascending a flight of steps, enter the room of the Last Supper, where medieval arches hallow the site. Enjoy some free time today for that last minute shopping or photo opportunity. After dinner, you will board your flight for the trip home. DAY 10 / United States As you arrive home, reflect on the memories of your Holy Land pilgrimage, for these will be yours for a lifetime. Tour 2 / The Holyland & Jordan: 12 Days Featuring Jerusalem, Bethlehem, The Galilee, Petra • INCLUDING a special visit to see the Chagall windows at the Hadassah Hospital DAY 1 / DEPARTURE Begin your pilgrimage to the Holyland this evening with your flight to Israel. DAY 2 / Tel Aviv area Upon arrival you will be met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure. DAY 3 / Tel Aviv area / Galilee Travel the Mediterranean coast, where aquamarine waters wash beaches framed by ruined aqueducts, to Caesarea. See the Amphitheater, the Crusader City, the Byzantine street, the aqueduct and Herod's Port. Continue along the coast to pine covered Mt. Carmel, where Elijah called down fire from Heaven. Visit Acco with it’s crusader ruins. Overnight in the Galilee. DAY 4 / Galilee Enjoy the lush vegetation and cascades at the Banias Nature Reserve. Explore the Sea of Galilee with a boat ride, where ancient fish- ing boats and modern craft ply waters long made sacred by gospel associations On the Mount of Beatitiudes, site of Sermon on the Mount, view the panorama of lake and mountain. Visit Tabgha and Capernaum, a lakeside village. Enter the synagogue, the Church of the Loaves and Fishes, and St. Peter's house. DAY 6 / Galilee / Jesaha / Amman Depart The Galilee to Sheikh Hussein Bridge. Complete border crossing procedures and enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Travel to Jerash, one of the best preserved and most complete provincial Roman cities. Jerash, Gerasa of Roman times, was one of the cities of the Decapolis, a confederation of ten Graeco-Roman cities dating from the 1st century BC situated in Jordan, Syria and Israel. Known as the Pompeii of the East for its extraordinary state of preservation the ruins indicate human occupation at this location for more than 2,500 years. The most well known monuments include the colon- naded street, the Temple of Zeus, the Forum, and Hadrian’s Arch. Dinner and overnight Amman. DAY 6 / Amman / Petra Drive to the town of Madaba, the biblical Medeba, 30 kilometers south of Amman. Madaba is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics and at the Greek orthodox- church of St. George visitors may view the earliest surviving original map of the Holyland. Visit Mt. Nebo, believed to be the site of the tomb of Moses. Mt. Nebo commands a spectacular view across the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea and then continue to Petra. Walk through the “Siq”, an immense crack in the Nubian sandstone, to the city of Petra. Two thousand years ago the Nabateans carved a city out of the rose red rock and the Treasury, el Khazneh, is one of the most elegant remains of antiquity. Beyond el Khazneh the visitor is surrounded on both sides by hundreds of Petra’s carved and built structures. Dinner and overnight Petra. DAY 7 / Petra / Jericho / Jerusalem Depart hotel to the Allenby Bridge and return to Israel where we continue to Jericho, where ongoing archeological excavations link this ancient city of the plain to Neolithic times. Visit Elisha’s Spring, where the prophet sweetened the waters. To the west rises the Mount of Temptation that commands the unforgettable panorama of the Jericho Plain and the Mountains of Moab. Ascend toward Jerusalem stopping at Bethany and the Mount of Olives over- looking Jerusalem and the Garden of Gethsemane, traditional site of Jesus’ arrest. Continue on to Jerusalem. DAY 8 / Jerusalem Tour the Old City today. Walk the narrow street of the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Dating from the Crusades, the church is revered as the site of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. Enter the Arab Quarter to the Western Wall. Just inside St. Stephen's Gate see St. Anne’s Church, renowned for its serenity and its flowering cloister. Enter the Praetorium, site of the trail of Jesus and his condemnation. Visit the Garden Tomb, revered by some Christians as the site of Jesus’ burial. Finally, visit Yad Vashem, the national memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust. An eternal flame burns as an everlasting- memorial. Drive past the Knesset, modern Israel’s parliament, to the white domed Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls. DAY 9 / Jerusalem Enjoy Jerusalem on your own today. Take time to attend a special worship service, do additional sightseeing or just to walk around this inspiring city. You may also choose to do an optional day tour to one of the many attractions ringing the city. DAY 10 / Masada Drive to Wadi Kelt and view the Monastery of St. George, whose whitewashed walls and blue dome cling to the brown hillside. Continue to the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, and to the Caves of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Drive along the Dead Sea to the fortress of Masada, built over 2,000 years ago, with its frescoes and mosaics still remarkably preserved. Here, Jewish defenders slew themselves and their families rather than surren- dered to the Roman legions. Return to Jerusalem. DAY 11 / Jerusalem Travel to Bethlehem and visit the Church of the Nativity, site of Jesus’ birth. On the eastern slope of Mt. Zion visit the Tomb of David, where a cenotaph, a huge stone monument, marks the royal memorial. Ascending a flight of steps, enter the room of the Last Supper, where medieval arches hallow the site. Enjoy some free time today for that last minute shopping or photo opportunity. After dinner, you will board your flight for the trip home. DAY 12 / United States As you arrive home, reflect on the memories of your Holy Land pilgrim- age, for these will be yours for a lifetime. Free DETAILED
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