TOUR INCLUDES

TRIP INCLUDES:

  • Tour all major New & Old Testament sites

(including BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies and Orson Hyde Gardens)

  • Masada and Dead Sea excursion

  • Sea of Galilee Boat ride

  • Tour guides, Larry and Jynene with 16 trip experience

  • Bilingual Israeli tour guide

  • Detailed Holy Land guidebook prepared for this group

  • 4-star deluxe hotel accommodations

  • Daily full Breakfast and Dinner

  • All tips and gratuities

  • All entrance fees for events, activities & sites

  • Transportation in deluxe bus

  • Daily learning discussions in the scriptures

  • Individual “Whisper" headsets

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TRIP DOES NOT INCLUDE


Travel to and from the airport

Food at airport

Souvenirs and personal expenses

Daily Lunches ($15-20. per person)

  • Each day during lunch time you can purchase food. Some bring their own snacks from home. Breakfast and Dinners are very plentiful but do not take food from the dining room.




Planned Itinerary - may be subject to modification or change

Day 1 - Flights from the USA to Tel Aviv

Day 2 - Arrive at TLV Ben Gurion Airport

Transfer to Hotel/Check into hotel

Day 3 - Breakfast/Check out of the hotel

7:30 am Orientation in lobby/conference room

8:00 am Bus Departs

Caesarea and Roman Aqueduct

Haifa

Lunch

Mt Carmel

Mt Tabor

Check into hotel/Dinner at hotel

Day 4 - Breakfast/Bus departs at 8:00 am

Tel Dan

Caesarea Philippi, Banias Springs, then called the Hermon Stream

Lunch/Golan Heights

Bethsaida

Capernaum

Tabgha/Primacy of Peter

Mount of Beatitudes

Dinner at hotel

Day 5 -Breakfast/ Bus departs at 8:00 am

Nazareth Village

Precipice

Lunch

Ginosar - Jesus Boat

Sea of Galilee Boat ride

Dinner at hotel

Day 6 - Breakfast/Check out of hotel/ Bus departs at 8:00 am

Bet She’an

Bethabara - Jordan River, possibly Jesus’ baptismal site.

Tel Jericho

Lunch/Olive wood shop

Bethany

Overlook Jerusalem

Check into hotel/Jerusalem

Dinner at hotel

Day 7 - Breakfast/ Bus depart 8:00 am

Temple Mount (Al Aksa Mosque, Dome of the Rock, Holy of Holies)

Antonia Fortress

Pools of Bethesda/St Anne’s Church

Lunch in Old City

Western Wall/Tunnel tour

Davidson Center - Ophel gardens, steps to the temple

Old City of David, Gihon Spring

Hezekiah’s Tunnel, Warren shaft

The pool of Siloam/Pilgrimage road

Dinner at Hotel

Day 8 - Breakfast/Bus departs at 8:00 am

Dead Sea, En Gedi, Masada

Qumran/Lunch

Dead Sea stop for a swim

House of Caiaphas (St Peter in Gallicantu)

Upper Room/King David’s Tomb

Dinner at Hotel

Optional - Jaffa gate/Light and Sound Show

Day 9 - Breakfast/Bus departs at 8:00 am

Orson Hyde Memorial Garden

Garden of Gethsemane

Lunch in the old city

Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Garden Tomb

Dinner at hotel

Day 10 - Breakfast/ Bus departs at 8:45 am

8:00 am Hotel conference room/BYU Jerusalem Center history

BYU Jerusalem Center outside/photos

10:30 am Sacrament meeting

Lunch in Bethlehem

Church of the Nativity/Manger Square

Shepherd’s Fields

Visit Orphanage

Dinner at Hotel

Day 11- Breakfast/Check out of Hotel

Free time and Lunch

Shrine of the book/Model city/Israel Museum

Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial

Dinner in Tel Aviv

Transfer to Ben Gurion airport

Flights from TLV to USA