Holy Land & Turkey 2020

Turkey & Israel 2020
When: Friday 2/14 – Sunday 2/23, 2020
Price: $1,800 per person (Double Occupancy).

Exclusive Low Price Flight on Turkish Airline $1,100 (Must reserve by November 2nd)

To Reserve or for More information Please text
Father Andrew
203-455-7447

Checks should be sent to
Father Andrew Awad
Address: 138 Evergreen Hill Road
Fairfield CT 06824

You can send payment through Venmo  @Abouna

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Flight Information:

• It is highly recommended that you reserve your flight with us by November 2nd to qualify for the law fair price of $1,100.
• Turkish Airline Leaves from JFK on Feb 14 at at 11:55PM Arrive to Istanbul on Feb 15 at 5:25PM.
• Flight Leaves from Istanbul on Feb 17 at 10:10AM arrives at Tel Aviv at 11:25AM.
• Return flight from Tel Aviv leaves on Feb 23 at 7:25AM. it has 3 hours transit in Istanbul, leaves Istanbul at 2:55PM and arrives at JFK at 6:15PM.

Day 1, Friday, Feb 14, 2020

Depart from JKF to Istanbul @ 11:55PM

Day 2, Saturday, Feb 15, 2020

• Arrival @ 5:25PM
• Check in Ramada Istanbul Old City Hotel
• Recommendation: Exploring at Istanbul downtown, Taksim Square and local restaurants/Cafés.

Day 3, Sunday, Feb 16, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

• Breakfast @ Hotel
•  A fully guided tour of the only city to span two continents, visiting the Blue Mosque, St. Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace and the Hippodrome.
• Lunch.
• Cruise between two continents on the stretch of water that separates Europe from Asia in the afternoon.
•  Egyptian Bazar.
• Overnight @ Ramada Istanbul Old City Hotel

Day 4, Monday, Feb 17, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• Fly to Israel
• Arrival at 11:25AM
• Check in Hotel Metropolitan (1 Block away from the Beach)
• Free Time in Tel Aviv (Shopping, Site seeing, Restaurant, Beaches, etc.)

Day 5, Tuesday, Feb 18, 2020:Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• Breakfast @ Hotel
• Drive to Nazareth
• Mount Tabor:
  • Church of the Transfiguration
• Taxis to Mount Tabor
• Cana Wedding Church, Jesus’ first miracle
• Lunch in Nazareth
• Nazareth:
  • Church of the Angel Gabriel’s
  • Mary’s Well
  • Basilica of the Annunciation
  • Coptic Orthodox Annunciation Church
• Check in Legacy of Nazareth Hotel, Dinner & Overnight

Day 6, Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• Breakfast @ Hotel
• Mt. of Beatitudes: where our Lord gave the Sermon on the Mount
• Tabgha:
  • Church of the loaves and fishes
  • Church of St. Peter’s Primacy
• Lunch
• Sail on the Sea of Galilee
• Capernaum: The house of St. Peter
• Check in Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem, dinner & overnight.

Day 7, Thursday, Feb 20, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• 5:00-6:30 AM Optional Liturgy at St, George Nun’s Monastery
• Breakfast @ Hotel @ 6AM SHARP!!!
• Dead Sea @8:15 AM SHARP
• Baptismal Site on the Jordan River
• Jericho:
  • Mount of Temptation (Cable car up Mt. Temptation)
  • Sycamore tree
• Lunch
• Mount of Olives
  • Ascension
  • Pater Naser
  • Palm Sunday Road
  • Dominus Flevit Chapel
  • Gethsemane
  • Virgin Mary’s Tomb
• Overnight @ Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem, & dinner.

Day 8, Friday, Feb 21, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• 6:00-7:30 AM Optional Liturgy at The Holy Sepulcher Church
• Breakfast @ Hotel
• St. Anne’s Church (Pools of Bethesda)
• Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross)
• Church of the Holy Sepulcher
• Lunch
• Mount Zion
  • Upper Room
  • David’s Tomb
  • Dormition Abby
  • St. Peter in Gallicantu
  • Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
• Overnight @ Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem, & dinner.

Day 9, Saturday, Feb 22, 2020 Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

• 5:00-6:30 AM Optional Liturgy at St, George Nun’s Monastery
• Breakfast @ Hotel
• Village of Ein Karem:
  • birth-place of St. John the Baptist
  • Church of the Visitation
• Drive to Bethlehem (birthplace of Jesus)
• Beit Sahour: Shepherds’ Fields, where the Angels appeared to the shepherds
• Bethlehem: Grotto of the Nativity
  • Church of St. Catherine
  • St. Jerome Church
• Lunch
• St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Convent & Church
• Coptic Patriarchate of Jerusalem
• Overnight @ Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem, & dinner.

Day 10. Sunday, Feb 23, 2020 Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Departure back home.

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Price includes:

1. Centrally located hotels in Istanbul & Israel
2. Comfortable motor coach with A/C & WiFI
3. Group transfer from the airport in Istanbul & Israel
4. 16 Meals
5. Cruise between two continents (Istanbul)
6. Boat ride (Sail on the Sea of Galilee)
7. Entry fees to all of the museums & churches as per itinerary

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Price does NOT include:

• International Airfare (If you did not buy the Airfare from us)
• Single supplement $500
• Cancellation/Medical insurance
• Individual transfers from/to the airport
• Meals other than specified
• Beverages during meals (except water and tea or coffee)
• Optional/additional tours and/or extensions and associated entrance fees
• Entrance to temporary exhibits … or to any exhibits that cost extra to  the general museum fee
• Porterage, gratuities* and extras
• Optional Extensions
• It is customary for the tour participants to tip, on a personal basis, the tour escort, driver and local guides based on the satisfaction of the services received. Please use the following as a guideline:
• Driver: 2USD per person/per day.
• Local guides: 3USD per person/per day

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