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Tour Suggestion One - 19 Days

ISRAEL AND PETRA/JORDAN PILGRIMS TOUR
19 Days including travel to and from Australia
Day 2 Tel Aviv/Jaffa(Joppa) - Visit Neot Kedumim, a nature park with plants trees and artifacts referenced by the Bible, at noon time visit the Ayalon Institute. Ancient Jaffa(Joppa). Dinner and overnight in Tel Aviv Leonardo Basel Tel Aviv (1 Night)
Day 3 Galilee - Tel Aviv for Caesarea Maritime, continue and visit Nazareth and Nazareth Village. Visit Mt. Carmel. overnight in Tiberia. Nof Ginosar (Village) Kibutz hotel (3 Nights)
Day 4 - After breakfast, drive to the Mt. of Beatitudes. Tabgha, Capernaum, enjoy a traditional boat ride on the sea of Galillee. See the remains of a boat from the time of Jesus. Fish lunch before or after depending on time. Drive via Cana to Zippori (Sepphoris. Capernaum, Yardenit Baptismal Site. Dinner and overnight in Tiberia
Day 5 Upper Galilee - Visit Biblical Dan and Caesarea-Phillippi. Drive up the Golan stopping at Tel Fahr. Visit Kursi . Return to Tiberia for dinner and overnight
Day 6 - Visit Beit Shean. At the foot of Mt. Gilboa visit the 6th century synagogue of Bet Alfa. Drive to Jerusalem Stop for a welcome to Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus before settling in. Overnight: Jerusalem Leonardo Jerusalem (6 Nights)
Day 7 Jerusalem Old City and Bethlehem - Start with a spectacular view of Jerusalem from the Mt. of Olives - Walk down the Palm Sunday Road, visit the Chapel of Dominus Flevit and the Church of all Nations at the Garden of Gethsemane – Afternoon visit to Bethlehem – here will experience a traditional oriental lunch. Visit the Holy Sites including the Shepherds Field, here will celebrate a mass, Shepherds Church, Church of the Nativity with Birth cave.
Day 8 - Free to enjoy Jerusalem – shopping and personal activities, today we don’t have a bus or a guide. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day 9 - Early morning visit (leave hotel at 7:15 - this to avoid a very long wait in line) to the Temple Mount; visit the Pools of Bethesda, the Sisters of Zion crypt and walk the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Walk through to Damascus Gate and Solomon’s Quarries (also known as Zedekiah’s cave) before ending at Garden Tomb about 3pm.
Day 10 - Begin with a visit to David’s City - see the movie of Jerusalem from its inception (some 4,000 years back) until the time of Solomon. The Pool of Siloam. From here we return via Herod’s drainage channel below his street. Visit the Davidson Center, the steps that led to the Temple. On Mt Zion visit the Last Supper Room and the prison of Christ at St. Peter in Gallicantu – enter the Jewish Quarter and walk the Cardo. Visit the Burnt House.
Day 11 - Drive down to Emmaus. Continue to the Ela Valley to Bet Guvrin where we explore the myriad bell-shaped caves and the wonderfully preserved Roman Amphitheatre. Biblical Lakhish and Bet Shemesh and the Ela Valley (David and Goliath). Return to Jerusalem for diner and overnight
Day 12 - Today we visit the Western Wall and tunnels. View the model of Second Temple period Jerusalem; the Dead Sea scrolls. Continue past the Israel Knesset and the Supreme Court to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Visit En Karem and the birthplace of John the Baptist. Finish our visit to Jerusalem with a walk down Ben Yehuda St. and town center or the outdoor market at Mahaneh Yehudah. Overnight: Jerusalem
Day 13 Masada and the Dead Sea - Depart Jerusalem via the Inn of the Good Samaritan to visit the caves of Qumran, En Gedi and Masada which we ascend by cable car but descend on foot via the Roman ramp where the bus meets us; continue to Dead sea, dinner and overnight in Dead Sea hotel David Dead Sea Resort (Ex Meridian) )1 Night)
Day 14 - Free morning at the Dead Sea hotel to enjoy the spa and hotel facilities. At 11:00, drive through the Negev desert up to Mitzpe Ramon. Drive via the Wilderness of Zin (Ben-Gurion's grave. visit Nabbatean and Byzantine Avdat, - authentic Bedouin visit on this road with Salman. Overnight: Hotel - Mitzpe Ramon Isrotel Ramon Inn (1 Night)
Day 15 - 4WD Jeep ride off-road through the Ramon Makhetesh ending at bedouin village. Mitzpe Ramon visitor's center. Continue to Eilat via Timna Park to see the rock formations and ancient mines and Temples. Visit a re-creation of the Tabernacle in the Sinai desert. - Eilat overview. overnight Eilat Royal Resort Eilat (2 Nights)
Day 16  Petra/Jordan- Trip to Petra in Jordan - Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Eilat Leave hotel in Eilat around 07:30 AM and transfer to the Arava Border Crossing. After ending all border-formalities we drive up to the Jordanian "Desert Highway" and then to the "Rose Red City" - Petra. We enter the ancient city through the famous "Siq" - a narrow natural gorge that made the secret entrance to Petra. At once the valley of Petra opens in front of us, and we see the famous "Khazane Treasury". We visit the most famous monuments, carved in the red Sandstone and eat lunch (included) nearby, before we go back to our bus. After a short city-tour in Aqaba we reach the Arava Border and return to Eilat and transfer back to our hotel.
Day 17 - Leave hotel for airport to board 11am local Flight back to Ben Gurion. We will arrange for a look around Tel Aviv and after an evening meal head to the international airport for our flight that leaves at 11.05pm.  
Days 18/19 - Leave for home - We lose a day coming home .