Footsteps of Christ
& Petra, Jordan

Departure on your way to Israel the Land of the Bible.

Welcome to Israel. On arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport our representatives meet and assist you. Transfer to your hotel in Tel Aviv — Israel’s largest modern city. Check in, dinner, and overnight rest near the Mediterranean shore.

• Airport transfer from Ben Gurion to your hotel
• Dinner at your hotel
• 5★ Deluxe or 4★ First Class hotel accommodations

Visit Old Jaffa — where Peter raised Tabitha (Acts 9:36-43). Drive to Caesarea Maritima (Acts 10:24-48), the Roman theater and aqueduct. Stop at Mount Carmel where Elijah challenged the False Prophets (1 Kings 18). Continue to Megiddo / Armageddon (Rev 16), the archaeological excavations. Drive to Nazareth, the Basilica of Annunciation, view from Mount Precipice, and Cana of Galilee (John 2). Arrive at the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Dinner & overnight Sea of Galilee

Special visit to Magdala (Matt 15:39), home of Mary Magdalene. Board a wooden boat and sail the Sea of Galilee. Dock at Kibbutz Nof Ginosar and visit the Ancient Jesus Boat. Drive to the Golan Heights and Banias / Caesarea Philippi (Matt 16:13) — "On this rock I will build my Church." Return via the Hula Valley to Yardenit on the Jordan River (Matt 3:13-17).

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Special St. Peter Fish Lunch in the Galilee
• Dinner & overnight Sea of Galilee

Visit the Mount of Beatitudes (Matt 5-8) — the Church of the Beatitudes chapel. Tabgha — Church of Multiplication with its 4th-century mosaic floor. Capernaum (Matt 4:13) — Jesus' home and the center of his ministry. Drive through Beit She’an (Mark 5:20). Continue through the Jordan Valley past Jericho to the Dead Sea. Check in at the Enjoy Dead Sea Hotel and receive complimentary spa gift products.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Dead Sea spa gift products courtesy of Enjoy Dead Sea Hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Dinner & overnight Dead Sea

Ascend by cable car to Masada — the 1,500 ft fortress, last stronghold of the Jewish rebellion. First-century Synagogue, King Herod's Bathhouse. Continue to Ein Gedi where David hid from Saul (1 Sam 23). Visit Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Arrive in the Golden City of Jerusalem — panoramic view from Mount Scopus.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Dinner & overnight Jerusalem

Mount of Olives (Acts 1), Dominus Flevit — "The Lord wept" (Luke 19:41-44), down Palm Sunday Road to Gethsemane (Mark 14:32) with its 2,000-year-old olive trees. The Western Wall and Western Wall Tunnels. St. Anne Church and the Pool of Bethesda (John 5). Walk all 14 Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Matt 27). Afternoon in the colorful bazaars. Shabbat dinner.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Shabbat Dinner at your hotel

Mount Zion — the Upper Room (Luke 22), Lord's Supper, King David's Tomb, and the Jewish Quarter. Drive to Ein Kerem, birthplace of John the Baptist (Luke 1:57-80), and the Church of the Visitation. Continue to Bethlehem — the Church of the Nativity (Matt 2:1-5) and Shepherd's Field (Luke 2:8-20). Afternoon at The Garden Tomb (1 Cor 15) for prayer. Farewell dinner at the hotel.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, all entrance fees & attractions
• Farewell dinner at your hotel

Drive from Jerusalem to the border crossing to enter Jordan. Proceed to Jerash — a magnificent city of the Decapolis, about 45km north of Amman, with colonnaded streets, Roman baths, and hilltop temples. Then drive to Amman for a city tour of the Jordanian capital.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified Jordanian guide, entrance fees & attractions
• Overnight Amman

After early breakfast, travel south on the road to Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses). Petra — known as "Sela Edom" or red rock city (Isaiah 2:10), the ancient Nabatean capital. An optional horse ride from the visitor center leads to the dramatic Siq canyon. Walk 1.25km through the Siq to emerge at the breathtaking Treasury (El Khazneh). Visit the field of tombs, obelisks, and the altar (Al Madhbah) with panoramic views of the whole rock city.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, Petra entrance fees & attractions
• Overnight Petra (breakfast included)

Drive to Madaba to see the ancient mosaic map of the Holy Land. Continue to Mount Nebo, from where Moses viewed the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 34). Visit the remains of a Byzantine church with a mosaic floor at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George. Then drive to Jordan International Airport or to the border crossing back to Israel for your departure flight home.

• Breakfast at your hotel
• Certified guide, entrance fees & attractions
• Transfer to Ben Gurion Airport or Amman Queen Alia Airport

If your flight departs in the morning you will arrive home the same day. If it departs at night, you arrive the following day. Arrive home and start planning your next memorable trip to the Holy Land with Israel Tourism Consultants.