CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE EGYPT-ISRAEL-JORDAN

Day 1 Nairobi-Egypt-Cairo

Day 2 Visit old Cairo -The – hanging church[Al Muallaqa] the church st sergius  [Abu serga]the church old st Mercurius[Abu sefein]and Ben Ezra synagogue.Boat ride on the Nile[pharaonic village]and thereafter,transfer to the hotel for check-in and rest.Overnight in Cairo

Meal plan :Lunch/Dinner

OPTIONAL ITINERARY FOR DAY 2 Breakfast,visit the great pyramids of Giza and sphynx, lunch.Visit a perfumery continue to cairo downtown or mall-free time for shopping,transfer back to your hotel .Overnight in Cairo

Meal plan :Breafast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 3 Breakfast,leave and drive across the suez canal [via underwater tunnel]moses spring ,marah[the place of bitter waters]Rephidim,through the sinai desert to st Catherine [mt sinai].Rest in good time for the night mountain climb.Overnight in st Catherine

Meal plan :Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 4 Early morning mt sinai climb,breakfast,visit the place of burning bush,visit the place where the israelites camped when moses went to receive the ten commandments,tranfer to the border town of Taba for the rest of the afternoon at leisure/rest .Overnight in Taba

Meal plan:Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 5 Breakfast,transfer to the border to enter Israel,meet and assist service at the border,visit Kibbutz-yotvata,lunch,continue to the dead sea via Ein Gedi and Masada,float on the deadsea,Jericho-visit the sycamore tree,ascend to Jerusalem.Overnight Jerusalem/Bethlehem

Meal plan:Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 6  Mount olives-chapel of ascension,our lord’s prayer church,the garden of Gethsamane,across the kidron valley,the wailing wall,mt zion/moriah-the temple mount,pool of Bethesda,lunch and continue in the footsteps of Jesus along the stations of the via Dolorosa.Jesus way of suffering ,the church of the Holy sepulcher where Jesus was crucified,visit the st peter of Gallicantu/caiaphas,room of the last supper,and king David’s tomb.Overnight Jerusalem/Bethlehem

Meal plan:Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 7 After breakfast,departure to Ein karem where john the baptist was born ,visit the st John in the mountains church,the church of visitation,the new city of Jerusalem,lunch,Bethlehem-visit the church of nativity where christ Jesus was born,the milk Grotto and the shepherds fields.Overnight Jerusalem/Bethlehem

Meal plan: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 8  After breakfast,via tel Aviv,drive to caesarea maritima,built by king Herod the great,to Haifa-mt carmel and stella mary’s[Elijah’s contest with the prophets of baal,Al mukhraqa camelite monestry atop mt carmel,lunch,across Tel megiddo-where the last battle shall take place[John;s revelation]Nazareth-basilica and the Grotto st of the annunciation-the old synagogue and mary’s well.Overnight Galilee-Nazareth/Tiberias

Meal plan :Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 9 Sea of Galilee-capernaum,with peter’s house and the famous synagogue,mt of the beatitudes.Tabgha-the miracle of the bread and the fish,lunch,sail on the Galilee,cana of Galilee -renewal of wedding vows.Overnight Nazareth/Tiberias

Meal plan :Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Day 10 After breakfast,leave to cross the border to Jordan,visit the baptismal site on river Jordan,continue to mt Nebo-the place where moses was first shown the promised land by God ,Amman-city of Jordan,dinner,transfer to the airport for flight out.

Meap plan:Breakfast/lunch/Dinner on flight