ISRAEL JORDAN 10 DAYS
ISRAEL JORDAN
Duration : 9 Nights / 10 Days
Package Cost : 0.00 INR
FROM 19TH JANUARY 2020
Tour Itinerary
Day 00: Depart from Pune for flight to Jordan via Mumbai. (Pune – Mumbai complimentary transfers)
Day 01: Ammam – Tel Aviv (PL, D)
Arrive Amman Airport – Direct transfer to Allenby border. Packed Lunch. Afternoon border crossing via Allenby. Thereafter transfer to Tel Aviv and halt. Over-nightGrand Beach, Leonardo City or similar. Indian Dinner and overnight @ Tel Aviv.
Day 02: Tel Aviv – Haifa. (B, L, D)
Breakfast. Morning start your Tel Aviv City Tour. Visit Old Jaffa – walk through the picturesque neighbor-hood and absorb its unique charm. Visit Yitzhak Rabin Center & Museum - An interesting and well-presented history of Yitzhak Rabin alongside the history of Israel during the same years. Teyelet—white sandy beach of Tel Aviv, Azriely Centre (Outer view). Evening transfer to Haifa and halt. Dinner in the hotel. Overnight in Tiberias Club hotel or similar.
Day 03: Haifa – Sea of Galilee (Kibbutz stay). (B, L, D)
Morning visit Rosh Hanikra. Take the cable car, which is the steepest in the world, takes visitors down for a fascinating encounter with the sea grottoes. The grottoes were formed in the wake of underground shocks that ripped open gaps within the bedrock. Slowly, rainwater penetrated these rifts, forming tunnels and caves that continued to expand due to the waves that slammed against the rock. Visit to Haifa Bahai Temple and then Bahai Gardens. Beauty, grandeur, and inspired design combined with the painstaking gardening of generations create the unique atmosphere of the Bahai shrine and gardens in Haifa. Evening we transfer to stay in Kibbutz near Haifa kibbutz communities, (option to stay in Kibbutz near Sea of Galilee.)
Day 04: Kibbutz stay (stay in the Agricultural farm). (B, L, D)
Morning we will visit some cultivated farms and to some of their Farming using drip irrigation and water management systems, Green Houses, Dairy etc. We will spend the full day engaged in Kibbutz. Overnight stay on the farm.
Day 05: Jerusalem & sightseeing. (B, L, D)
After Breakfast transfer to Jerusalem. Visit to the Old City of Jerusalem. Enter the Old City to begin exploring the wonders of Jerusalem. Walk through the Cardo, the main street of Jerusalem 2000 years ago. Visit the Western Wall where first temple of Jew religion was located. Visit Dome of the Rock from where Prophet Mohamed went to Heaven. Walk along the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus carried His Cross during his last journey. Continue to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where Jesus was crucified. Visit colorful Arab bazaar. Visit the Church of All Nations. Proceed to Mount Zion to see the tomb of King David and the nearby Room of the Last Supper. Get a panoramic view from the Mount of Olives, overlooking the walls of the old city and the ancient Jewish cemetery. Evening enjoy Light & Sound show. Dinner and Overnight at Best class hotel (BF, Lunch in local restaurant, Dinner in Hotel).
Day 06: Jerusalem sightseeing (B, L, D)
Breakfast. Morning visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial at Jerusalem. Visit Bethlehem- famous for being the place of Jesus Christ's birth. Visit the Church of Nativity, St. Catherine's Church. Also visit Mar Saba Monastery - This historic old Greek Orthodox monastery is a magnificent sight squeezed between the almost vertical rock walls of the Kidron Gorge. Also visit the Shrine of the book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed and the miniature model of Jerusalem as it was during the second temple period. Border crossing at Allenby - Transfer to Jordan and Drive to our hotel in Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth deep in the Jordan Valley. Overnight stay in Dead Sea.
Day 07: DEAD SEA – MADABA – NEBO – KERAK – PETRA (B, L, D)
After breakfast, Proceed to the Dead Sea - one of the most spectacular natural and spiritual landscapes in the whole world. It is the lowest body of water on earth, the lowest point on earth, and the world's richest source of natural salts, hiding wonderful treasures that accumulated throughout thousands of years. Visit Madaba, a city best known for the famous 6th century Mosaic map of Jerusalem & Holy Land and for its spectacular Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics and visit of St. George’s Church. Mt. Nebo (site only as the church is closed down for renovation) a city mentioned in the bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land that he would never enter. Kerak Castle is a Crusaders’ Castle built on a triangular plateau dating back to the 12th century.
Overnight stay at the Dead Sea (D)
Day 08: WADI RUM – AQABA (B, L, D)
After breakfast, Visit the Nabatean Red Rose city of Petra, one of the 7 world wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Enter the city through 1 KM long narrow gorge which is flanked either side by 80m high cliffs! Notice the dazzling colors and formations of the rocks. The site is massive, and contains hundreds of elaborated rock-cut tombs, a treasury, Roman-style theatres, temples, sacrificial altars and colonnaded streets. We head further down in southern Jordan to visit other significant sites including Wadi Rum. Explore Wadi Rum on a 01.30 hour jeep ride into the Jordanian desert! Wadi Rum was best described by T.E. Lawrence as “Vast, echoing and god-like”, and by the locals as “Valley of the Moon”. Overnight stay in the Aqaba.
Day 09: AMMAN. (B, L, D)
After breakfast, depart from Aqaba hotel to the capital city Amman. Sightseeing visiting sites and museums including the Archeological Museum, the Folklore Museum, The citadel, the blue mosque and the Amphitheatre. Evening free for shopping. Dinner and overnight at Amman.
Day 10: DEPARTURE AMMAN.
After breakfast, morning may be free for last moment shopping. Depending on the flight departure, transfer to Amman Queen Alia Airport for flight to Mumbai.
Arrive Mumbai late evening and transfer to Pune visa complimentary transfers.
