Cradle of three religions

There was never any mineral resources and there was never enough drinking water. There is no place to grow crops. It is not convenient to defend against enemies. Why have different peoples been fighting for Jerusalem for 30 centuries?
Perhaps because it is the only city in the world, which has 70 names? One of them - Shalem, which in Hebrew means «complete, perfect» ...

from 668 $ 8 days/7 nights

The tour price depends on the number of guests, dates and duration of the tour, season, selected hotels and room category.

Tour price includes

Group transfers, Ben Gurion Airport, en route.
Accommodation in a hotel in Jerusalem - 7 nights;
Meals - breakfast;
Tour of the program.

Tour price does not include

Airline tickets
Food during excursions
Paid entries to tourist attractions/museums/parks during excursions
Insurance

Details

Day 1

Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport

Arrival at the airport, meeting hall.

Moving to Jerusalem.
Hotel check-in

«Thus said the Lord: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy, my house will be built in it...»(Zacharias, 1:16)

In these streets walked the feet of prophets and heroes, poets and warriors, scientists and dervishes, seeking hope and losing faith...
Do you see the footprints of their sandals on the thousands-year-old paths of the eternal city?

During this week, try to understand or guess what drew them all to these ancient walls.

In the evening you can stroll through the streets of old Jerusalem and relax in one of the many cafes in the city center.

A more detailed description of excursion options can be found in the section Attractions

Interesting

Israeli hotels do not have a «star» classification: instead, there is a system of «classes». Since there are a lot of hotels in the country of different «chains», their classification tour operators set themselves, based on their objective assessments.

Day 2

Jerusalem Tour

The eternal city of Jerusalem and its famous temples.
Gethsemane Garden. The Stone of Supplication for the Cup (here Christ prayed to God the Father for deliverance from suffering; in this place the betrayal of Judas - the arrest of Christ - took place).
Nearby, in the rock - the greatest Christian shrine - the underground tomb of the Virgin Mary - the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Next - sacred places for the Christian - Mount of Olives, Via Dolorosa, Temple of the Holy Sepulchre, Golgotha.

Mount Zion with the tomb of King David of the Bible.

We will go to the Wailing Wall - a sacred place for any Jew. Right above it - Kubbat as-Sahra, the golden dome of the Rock, built on the ruins of the Temple of Tsar Solomon. Inside the dome is a ledge of a rock from which, according to legend, the prophet Muhammad made a mirage - an ascension to heaven to meet the Supreme...

Interesting

In the Bible the word «Jerusalem» occurs 340 times.... - «Hail of our God» (Ps.47:2-3); «City of the Great King» (Matt.-5:35); «Hail of God, Holy Home of the Highest» (Ps.-45:5); «Holy City» (Naem.11:1); «City of Festive Assemblies» (Isa.33:20); «Vera. (Zach.8:3). ) and other.

Interesting

From the top of the Mount of Olives in good weather you can see the Dead Sea.

Day 3, 4 and 5

Free days

Rest and independent walks in the old and new quarters of Jerusalem. Those wishing can book additional excursions, No.:

The roofs of the old city - (the route «Seven Secrets of Jerusalem», from the time of the First Temple to our time), through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Cardo Street is a restored Roman era Jerusalem street.
Underground Jerusalem – Hizkiyahu Tunnel (entrance to the tunnel from the Wailing Wall). The Hasmoneev Tunnel is part of an underground complex of ancient canals supplying water to the Temple under the Western part of the Temple Mount. Here comes to life the siege and capture by David of the ancient city of the Jebusites, as described in the Bible, in the Second Book of Samuel (Second Kingdoms). The underground excursion ends at the Gihon Key, the most important water source of Jerusalem for more than a thousand years - here, according to the description in the Book of Kings, Solomon was anointed to the kingdom. «Holy of Holies» - the room located in the tunnel opposite the place where there was Dvir in the Temple - where the Divine Presence lived, or

Night light-sound performance in the «Tower of David», which tells about the centuries-old history of the city - from the emergence to the proclamation of the capital of Israel...

Interesting

70,000 porters, 80,000 stonemasons, nearly 4,000 overseers worked on the First Temple for seven years. The most amazing thing is that in all this time, not one of the builders got sick and did not die. Not only that - not even a single tool broke!

Day 6

Dead Sea Tour

By crossing the Judean Wilderness, on which Moses led his people for 40 years, and rounding the salt pillars of Sodom and Gomorrah, we will find ourselves in the lowest place on earth’s land.

The Dead Sea once served as a sanctuary for King David. Here, near the winter palace of Herod the Great, the world’s first resort was built, and it was here, in biblical times, the basics of balsam for the mummification of the Egyptian pharaohs. According to the decoded papyri, the clay extracts brought from the area are part of Cleopatra’s beauty secret.

Low humidity, high temperature, no pollen and other allergens, glorified mud with a high content of iodine and hormone-like substances, rich in organic and mineral sea water, Thermo- mineral springs - this amazing cocktail has a beneficial effect on health and makes the Dead Sea unique. Sunlight, overcoming the additional distance to the lowest point of the planet, lose the harmful spectrum of ultraviolet, so you can safely sunbathe, as much as possible, without harm to the body. Thanks to its special microclimate, filled with mineral evaporation, it is one of the few places on earth where it is impossible to burn in the sun.

And although every year the sea level falls an average of 1 meter, which means that after sometime this lifelike source of beauty and health threatens to disappear - while the sea steadfastly prevents attacks of time.

Rest and swimming in the saltiest sea of the world.

Interesting

The Bible says that the water of the Dead Sea will one day be fresh. This prophecy may have already begun to come true, as recent studies suggest that freshwater sources have been clogged at the bottom of the Dead Sea.

Interesting

• The highest temperature in Asia (+53.7°C) was recorded in 1942 in Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, located in the northern part of the Jordan Valley.

Day 7

Rest and independent walks

Recreation and independent walks in the old and new quarters of Jerusalem. For those wishing to book additional excursions, such as:

The Necropolis of Jerusalem - are the burial caves of the 8th century BC and the descent into the fiery Gehena, where the words of the ancient prophets are inscribed. The true «nave of the Earth» opposite the cave of the Holy Sepulchre, as well as scrolls from the Kumran caves, exhibited in the Temple of books. You want to know why the privilege of being buried on the Mount of Olives is worth a million dollars?
We’ll tell you and show you...

HERODION -
"On the mountain, against Arabia, he built a fortress, which he called by his own name... made by human hands and decorated with luxurious buildings: the top of this hill he has encircled with round towers, and the enclosed square he has built up so majestic palaces, that not only their interior, but also the outer walls, teeth and roofs were distinguished by unusually rich decorations...
Two hundred dazzling white marble steps led up to the castle, because the hill was quite high and was entirely a creation of human hands."
Joseph Flavius.

Interesting

The name «Gethsemania» is the Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew word «gat shemen» - oilfield. What is left now in Gethsemane is only a small part of a giant garden that grew almost all over the western slope of Olivet. The Garden of Gethsemane is now owned by Catholics. It was here that Jesus spent the last hours of his earthly life.

Interesting

The Western Wall consists of 45 rows of masonry, 28 of which are above ground level and 17 below ground level. The first seven visible rows of stones are from Herod’s reign, the next four rows are from the Umayyad and 14 are from the Ottoman period. The wall was constructed in the 19th B.C. by Herod the Great to support the earthen embankment around the Temple. The length of the Wailing Wall is 57 m, height - 19 m (visible part) and 32 m - with a foundation.

Day 8

Getting back

Transfer to Ben Gurion Airport.

Getting back.

Interesting

In 2017, Israel was visited by 3,611,800 tourists, which is 25% higher than in 2016. The growth of the tourist flow from Russia - in 2017,331 500 tourists visited the country, which is 27% more than a year earlier.