Cairo • Sharm El Sheikh • Tel Aviv • Tiberias • Galilee • Jerusalem • Petra • Amman
Trips in 2026 - $5,999.00
Trips in 2027 - $5,999.00
Trip Itinerary ~ 12 Days
Day 1: Depart from USA. Arrival the next day.
Day 2: Arrive in Cairo. We will meet our guide and head to our hotel by deluxe motorcoach. We will have a brief orientation meeting, enjoy a meal, and acclimate to our new surroundings. Dinner and overnight in Cairo.
Day 3: After Breakfast, Full day tour in Cairo visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza. The valley of the Temple and the Sphinx. Visit the Egyptian museum, the Khan el Khalili Bazaar. Enjoy an evening cruise on the Nile with dinner and entertainment. Return to hotel for overnight.
Day 4: Following breakfast, this morning, get prepared to fly to Sharm El Sheikh. Arrive in Sharm. Upon arrival, we visit the Monastery, claimed to be built around the area of Moses' Burning Bush. After the tour Check in at your hotel at St. Catherine for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: At dawn, climb up Mt. Sinai and enjoy the sunrise. Free afternoon before departing for Tel Aviv. Dinner and overnight in Tiberias.
Day 6: We begin this day with a boat ride across the Sea of Galilee to visit the ruins of Capernaum. Next, we visit the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes and the Chapel of the Primacy at Tabgha. Proceed to visit the Mount of Beatitudes, which commemorates the Sermon on the Mount (Mathew 5:1-12). After lunch visit Cana in Galilee where Jesus turned water into wine during a wedding feast, and we end our tour for the day at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Dinner and overnight in Tiberias, Galilee.
Day 7: After breakfast we drive down through the Jordan Valley to the place of baptism for a visit and for renewal of baptismal vows if desired. Our next stop will be to the oldest city in the world, Jericho, and a view of the Mount of Temptation on which our Lord was tempted 40 days and 40 nights. We shall also view Zacchaeus' tree, then proceed to Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. We continue our drive on up through the Judean Wilderness to Jerusalem, and take a first glimpse of the city from the heights of Mt. Scopus before checking into our hotel. Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 8: After breakfast we shall start our pilgrimage in Jerusalem with a drive to Mount of Olives, from which Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection. Our first visit is the church of the Ascension next to the church of Pater Noster commemorating Jesus teaching his disciples the Lord's Prayer. Walk down the 'Palm Sunday road,' and visit the chapel of Dominus Flevit, here Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem. Then proceed to the garden of Gethsemane, and see the church of Mary Magdalene, and visit the Church of all Nations. Drive to Mount Zion and visit the upper room where Jesus had his last supper. Next, visit the Dormition Abbey where the Virgin Mary assumed into heaven body and soul. Before lunch we visit the church of St. Peter in Galicantu, which was built over the site of the house of the high priest Caiaphas and the dungeon where our Lord was imprisoned before his trial. It is also here that Peter denied knowing Jesus thrice. After lunch we will visit Bethlehem starting with the Basilica of the Nativity and the Grotto venerated as the birthplace of Jesus (Luke 2:1-7). We will also visit the church of St Catherine, the Crusaders' Cloister, the Chapel of St Jerome and the Grotto of the Holy Innocents. Finally, we will visit the shepherd's fields before returning to our hotel. Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 9: After breakfast we will drive to St. Steven's Gate where we shall enter the old city and start our morning tour at the Crusader's church of St. Anne and the pool of Bethesda. We will then continue onto the tower of Antonia where Jesus was tried and the church of the flagellation from where we follow the Stations of the Cross ending inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher. After lunch we shall visit the last standing remnant of the ancient Temple at the Western (Wailing) Wall. We then drive to Ein Karem, home of St. Elizabeth, and mother of John the Baptist the place of the visitation and the church of St. John the Baptist. Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 10: Travel to Amman, Jordan. Visit Bethany Beyond the Jordan - Mount Nebo - Madaba (6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land). Dinner and overnight in Petra.
Day 11: Tour of Petra. Dinner and overnight in Amman.
Day 12: Fly back home from Amman.
