ISRAEL

8 day Splendors of Israel from $1275.00. Includes seven nights 4 Star hotel accommodations, sightseeing of Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Caesarea, Galilee, Cana, Nazareth and Jerusalem and all transfers.

Though great in significance, Israel is small in size, allowing us to show you all the best sights in only eight days.

DAY 1: Jerusalem
Monday Upon arrival you will be met by our representative and will transfer to Jerusalem for overnight.

DAY 2: Jerusalem-New City
Tuesday (BD) Drive to Mt’ Scopus for view of Jerusalem, then to the Garden of Gethsemane and Church of the Agony. Drive to Mt’ Zion for a visit to the tomb of King David, the Room of the last Supper and Dormition Abbey. Sightseeing in the new city including the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book, with the famous Dead Sea scrolls, new Supreme Court bld. Mt’ Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust). Then visit the model of the Heordian city of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the Second Temple. Visit the synagogue with Marc Chagall stained glass windows at the Hadassah Medical
Center, then via Ein Karem (the birth place of John the Baptist). Return to Hotel

DAY 3: Jerusalem-Old City
Wednesday (BD) Walk through the Jaffa Gate to the City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Temple area, then colorful bazaars, Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Continue to Bethlehem to visit Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity and return to Jerusalem for overnight.

DAY 4: Beit Shean, Tiberias, Galilee
Thursday (BD) Drive north via Jericho, the oldest city in the world. Then through the Jordan Valley and the new settlements to Beit Shean. Visit the excavations of this beautiful Roman Decapolis city. Proceed to Tiberias, the old center of Jewish learning. Drive along the shores of the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum to visit the ruins of the ancient synagogue. Continue to a Kibbutz hotel for overnight.

DAY 5: Upper Galilee and Golan Heights/Nazareth
Friday (BD) Drive to the Golan Heigts. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze villages. Via Banias, source of the Jordan River proceed to Kiryat Shmone and the Hula Valley to Safed. City of the Kabbalah, to visit the old synagogue and artists’ colony and then to Nazareth to visit the Christian holy sites. Return to the Kibbutz hotel for overnight.

DAY 6: Acre, Haifa, Tel Aviv
Friday (BD) Check out of your hotel. Visit the old, famous Crusader stronghold and medieval fortifications. Continue to Haifa, including the Bahai Shrine. Persian Garden and Mount Carmel for a panoramic view of the city. Proceed southwards to Caesarea to visit the Roman theater and the Crusader fortress. Drive via Natanya to Tel Aviv.

DAY 7: Tel Aviv
Sunday (BD) Full day of leisure in Tel Aviv.

DAY 8: DEPARTURE
Monday (B) Transfer to the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv for onward flight.

This tour begins every Monday in Jerusalem. You may combine Splendors of Israel and/or Lawrence of Arabia's Jordan with any Nabila tour to Egypt. Nabila will be glad to assist with any special transportation and accommodation arrangements (to/from Egypt, Israel, Jordan or Turkey) to meet the Sunday departure time. The rates do not include any international airfares.