The following tours will be
offered specially to Congress participants.
Pick-up and drop-off tours
will be from all Congress hotels.
All tours include entrance
fees as per itinerary and touring in an air-conditioned bus with the service
of an English-speaking guide.
Rates for all tours are based
on a minimum of 15 participants per tour.
Changes in routes,
departure/arrival times may occur for reasons beyond our control.
Modest attire is requested to
holy sites during the Jerusalem and Galilee tours. Men should wear long
pants and women should keep their shoulders covered. Please bring
comfortable walking shoes and sun hats.
Tours throughout Israel will
be offered at Congress excursion desk to give participants an opportunity to
explore the country.
TOUR 1 - MASSADA AND THE DEAD SEA Saturday, April 28, 2001
08.00 - 17.00
Travel
to a land of mesmerising beauty and contrast: The Judean Desert and Dead Sea
Valley, ever-changing, remote desert canyons, immense and still. The rock
fortress Massada crowns this unique landscape, where you can find monuments from
every age of humanity. Built by King Herod the Great, King of Judea in the Roman
period, the founder of the Herodian Dynasty, this fortress served as the last
place of refuge for 965 men, women and children, survivors of the "Great
Revolt". Besieged by the Romans and losing all hope, they chose death
rather than surrender. Enjoy the beauty of the Judean Desert and experience the
unique sensation of "swimming" in the Dead Sea and Spa, at the world's
lowest point (420 m below sea level).
Price per person: US$ 75
TOUR 2 - OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM Sunday, April 29, 2001,
08.00 - 17:00
Jerusalem
is truly unique. It is certainly one of the world's great cities, evoking such
intensity of feeling in so many different corners of the world. Step back in
time as you travel along the beautiful stone walls built by "Suliman the
Magnificent". Enter the Old City along the route travelled by generations
of pilgrims. Walk through the oriental market: passing jewellery, textile,
souvenir, spices and sweet stores. Continue to the Cardo, with its colonnaded
Roman City streets and reconstructed Jewish Quarter. Follow the route taken by
the upper city dwellers to the Temple, via the "Western Wall". Walk
the route taken by Jesus as he carried the cross to Calvary, and the Holy
Sepulchre.
Price per person: US$ 52
TOUR 3 - GALILEE
Sunday, April 29, 2001
8:00-17:00
Depart
Tel Aviv and drive along the costal road, Travel to Tiberias, built by Herod
Antipas as his Galilean capital. The wonders of the Galilee unfold as you travel
along the shores of the beautiful Sea of Galilee. Visit Capernaum, where Jesus
began his ministry after leaving his home town of Nazareth. Tabgha "place
of the seven springs", the traditional site of the Miracle of the Loaves
and Fishes.
Continuing to Kana where Jesus performed his first miracle. Visit Nazareth, the
place where the archangel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus.
Travel
to a land of mesmerising beauty and contrast: The Judean Desert and Dead Sea
Valley, ever-changing, remote desert canyons, immense and still. The rock
fortress Massada crowns this unique landscape, where you can find monuments from
every age of humanity. Built by King Herod the Great, King of Judea in the Roman
period, the founder of the Herodian Dynasty, this fortress served as the last
place of refuge for 965 men, women and children, survivors of the "Great
Revolt". Besieged by the Romans and losing all hope, they chose death
rather than surrender. Enjoy the beauty of the Judean Desert and experience the
unique sensation of "swimming" in the Dead Sea and Spa, at the world's
lowest point (420 m below sea level).
Jerusalem
is truly unique. It is certainly one of the world's great cities, evoking such
intensity of feeling in so many different corners of the world. Step back in
time as you travel along the beautiful stone walls built by "Suliman the
Magnificent". Enter the Old City along the route travelled by generations
of pilgrims. Walk through the oriental market: passing jewellery, textile,
souvenir, spices and sweet stores. Continue to the Cardo, with its colonnaded
Roman City streets and reconstructed Jewish Quarter. Follow the route taken by
the upper city dwellers to the Temple, via the "Western Wall". Walk
the route taken by Jesus as he carried the cross to Calvary, and the Holy
Sepulchre.
Depart
Tel Aviv and drive along the costal road, Travel to Tiberias, built by Herod
Antipas as his Galilean capital. The wonders of the Galilee unfold as you travel
along the shores of the beautiful Sea of Galilee. Visit Capernaum, where Jesus
began his ministry after leaving his home town of Nazareth. Tabgha "place
of the seven springs", the traditional site of the Miracle of the Loaves
and Fishes.