Orthodox

9 - 12 Days
TYPOLOGIES

Pilgrimage

DIFFICULTY

Low

MIN. AGE

18 years

Amazing Experience

Discover the Land of the Bible

Live Your Faith
Follow in the Steps of Jesus

Tour Map

Day by Day

Welcome Tours & Travel offers a unique experience of the Holy Land that no other pilgrimage, tourism or travel agency can provide.

DAY 1 - ARRIVE TEL AVIV

Arrival Tel Aviv airport, meet and greeted by your tour guide and/or driver, assist and transfer to a hotel in Nazareth. Dinner and overnight.

DAY 2 - CANA

After breakfast, drive to Cana of Galilee for a visit to the Church of the First Miracle then continue to visit Akko, Haifa and then back to Nazareth for dinner and overnight

DAY 3 - Church of the Annunciation

Breakfast at your hotel, visit the Church of the Annunciation and Virgin Mary’s Well. Continue to Sea of Galilee and visit Tiberius and the sites Capernaum, Tabgha and the Jordan River. Back to the hotel in Nazareth for dinner and overnight.

DAY 4 - Mount Tabor

Breakfast at your hotel, leave hotel and drive to Mount Tabor and visit the Church of the Transfiguration. Continue through the Jordan Valley to Jericho. Ascend by cable car to visit the Monastery of the Temptations. Then proceed to the Monastery of St. Gerasimos (Deir Hajla). Drive to Bethlehem for dinner and overnight

DAY 5 - Bethlehem

Breakfast at the hotel. This day we will explore the city of Bethlehem and surroundings: the Grotto and, Basilica of the Nativity, the Shepherds’ Field, St. Theodosius and St. Sabas Monasteries. Dinner and overnight in your hotel in Bethlehem.

DAY 6 -Hebron

after breakfast at your hotel, we will drive to Hebron to visit Tomb of Patriarch, and then we will drive back to Bethlehem to visit Pool of Solomon after that we will drive to visit St. George Monastery . Tour Bethlehem to see the wall there, dinner and overnight in Bethlehem

DAY 7 - Jerusalem

after breakfast at your hotel, drive to Jerusalem and ascend of Mount of Olives to visit the Chapel of the Ascension and the Pater Noster Church. Walk down to the Basilica of Gethsemane with its old olive trees garden. Visit Tomb of Virgin Mary. After a short rest, continue to Mount Zion for a visit to the Cenacle and the Dormition Abbey. Back to the hotel in Bethlehem for dinner and overnight.

DAY 8 - Jerusalem Old City

breakfast at your hotel, drive to Jerusalem to explore the Old City. Start at St. Stephen Gate, visit to St. Anne and the Pool of Bethesda. Continue through the Via Dolorosa to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. drive to Ein Karem, this is where Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, became miraculously pregnant, and gave birth to John. And here Elizabeth received a visit from family, which included Mary, who was also pregnant at the time with Jesus. The two women sat near a village well and Mary drank from its fresh waters. Today this very well is called Mary’s Well. Dinner and overnight in your hotel in Jerusalem

DAY 9 - Bethlehem

very early in the morning walk to Holy Sepulture church to attend the celebration of Holy light that appears from the Tomb of Jesus, then continue to Bethlehem to attend the celebration in Bethlehem and attend the Mass in the orthodox church in beit sahour in Arabic language plus attend the celebration there . Dinner and overnight in your hotel in Bethlehem.

DAY 10 - Departure

Departure