ULTIMATE JERUSALEM & JORDAN TOUR | ✙ Coptic.Travel ✙

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Flight Information:

Day 0, Friday, Feb 10, 2023

Depart from JKF to Istanbul @ 11:35 PM

Day 1, Saturday, Feb 11, 2023 Meals: Dinner

Arrival at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, the gateway to the Holy Land @ 5:15 PM
Our guide and driver will meet us at the airport. Afterward, we will be driven to the hotel in Tiberias for dinner and overnight.

Day 2, Sunday, Feb 12, 2023 – 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, Dinner & Overnight

Day 3, Monday, Feb 13, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Breakfast @Hotel and check-out with luggage.
Mount 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 (Included)
Sail on the Sea of Galilee (Tiberias Lake)
Capernaum: The house of St. Peter
Crossing the borders towards the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, then heading to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 4, Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Breakfast @ Hotel
Wadi Harar (known as the Baptism Place) from the Jordan side – (The true place where the Lord Jesus Christ was baptized) which is known to be the real place of his baptism.
Mount Nebo (where Moses saw the Promised Land).
Lunch (Not Included)
City of Madaba / and its famous map of Madaba from 540 AD inside the church, which shows all the churches built by Saint Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, in the Byzantine era.
Hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 5, Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Breakfast @Hotel and check-out with luggage.
Petra – the capital of the Nabatean kingdom 312 BC. It is called and known as the Pink City, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and today it is the symbol of Jordan.
Lunch (Not Included)
A full day in Petra and the evening crossing to Israel.
Hotel in Jerusalem for accommodation, dinner, and overnight.

Day 6, Thursday, Feb 16, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

5:30-7:30 AM Optional Liturgy at Saint George Nun’s Monastery
Breakfast @ Hotel
Head to the old town through the Lions Gate to visit the Pool of Bethesda and visit the Church of Saint Anna, the place where the Virgin Mary was born.
Visit the prison of Christ, and the church of this is the man.
Visit the Church of the Flagellation in which the Lord was flogged.
The Church of Judgment.
Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) and its fourteen (14) stations.
The last station inside the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulcher) and visit all the holy places, spend some time in the church for prayers, meditations, and supplications.
Visit the Coptic Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
St. George’s Monastery of the Sisters in Jaffa gate.
Overnight @Hotel & dinner.

Day 7, Friday, Feb 17, 2023 Meals – Breakfast and Dinner

5:30-7:30 AM Optional Liturgy at Saint Demiana Nun’s Monastery
Breakfast @ Hotel
We start our day by visiting Abu Ghosh:
- The Church of Our Lady of Ark
- The town of Emmaus
- The village of Ain Karem
- The birthplace of St. John the Baptist.
The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary with Elizabeth.
Beit Sahour to visit the shepherd’s Field, which is the place where the shepherds saw the star, and they followed it to the Church of the Nativity.
Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity, the birthplace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Cave of Saint Jerome, where the Holy Bible was translated.
The Milk Grotto.
Visit the Coptic Monastery, the resting place of the Holy Family.
Overnight @Hotel & dinner.

Day 8, Saturday, Feb 18, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

5:00-6:30 AM Optional Liturgy at Saint George Nun’s Monastery
Breakfast @Hotel
Dead Sea @8:15 AM SHARP
Baptismal Site on the Jordan River
Tomb of Saint Lazar
Lunch (Not included)
Jericho:
- Mount of Temptation (Cable car up Mt. Temptation)
- Sycamore tree
The Prophet Elisha’s spring
The monastery of St. Zacchaeus, the Tax Collector of the Coptic church in the city of Jericho
Overnight @Hotel & dinner.

Day 9, Sunday, Feb 19, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Day 10, Monday, Feb 20, 2023 – Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Price includes:

Price does NOT include:

International Airfare
Single supplement $750
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 their satisfaction with the services received. Please use the following as a guideline:
Driver: 2 USD per person/per day.
Local guides: 3 USD per person/per day