CATHOLIC TOUR
CAIRO - HOLY LAND, 10 DAYS
OCT. 17 - 26, 2010
FR. DONALD LOMASIEWICZ - spiritual director on tour
MR. BOB HINER - tour coordinator
CAIRO - NAZARETH - CANA - SEA OF GALILEE - BETHLEHEM - JERUSALEM
ITINERARY
Day 1 - Oct. 17th, 2010 - DEPARTURE
Board you transatlantic flights to Cairo, Egypt. Meals served on the board of the plane.
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Day 2 – Oct. 18th, 2010 - ARRIVAL EGYPT, CAIRO
Arrival to Cairo International airport, meeting with your guide and after the acquiring Egypt visa at the airport you will proceed with the transfer to your 5* hotel. Buffet dinner before your first night in Cairo.
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Day 3 – Oct. 19th, 2010 - OLD CAIRO - GIZA PYRAMIDS
Today tour will start with the drive to Giza,
crossing the Nile today on few occasions. Here you will visit and spend some time by the pyramids, Sphinx. One of the most famous Pyramids of Giza is the Cheops (Khufu) Pyramid, the largest of the three, was built in the 3rd Dynasty about 2690 BC, and is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. In front of the Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), we find the Sphinx carved from a single piece of stone. It is a lion with a Pharaoh's head thought to be a portrait of the pharaoh Chephren (Khafre). Enjoy a camel ride by the Pyramids area, dealing with the Bedouins always shows as a unique experience! Later today we will continue to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and late in the afternoon group will finish with the visit of Cairo by the "medieval bazaars" of “Khan-El-Khalili”, where one can bargain hand-tooled leather items, gold, silver and semiprecious stones. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 4 – Oct. 20th, 2010 - CAIRO - TEL AVIV
Depart Cairo, late in the afternoon; we will have transfer to Cairo Intl. Airport for flight to Tel Aviv. Free time in the morning before the departure for Holy land group will celebrate holy mass, return to airport, check in for flight to Tel Aviv. Upon arrival to Tel Aviv, meet with our Christian guide for Holy land and transfer to hotel.
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Day 5 – Oct. 21st, 2010 - CAPERNAUM - TABGHA - SEA OF GALILEE - JORDAN
Today we will literally follow the "Footsteps of Jesus".
First in the morning we will leave for Nazareth the boyhood of Jesus and the place where He spent the first 30 years of His life. We will say many prayers in the most inspiring churches of St. Joseph and Annunciation where the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that She would be the Mother of God see the Well where our Mary went for the water. Same day we will visit Capernaum where Jesus spent most of His preaching; new church built at the site of the Home of St. Peter, ruins of the synagogue that had being built in the time of Jesus. Through story of our guide we will get to know more of the Life of Jesus in Capernaum. We will enjoy a boat ride from Capernaum, chance to experience the “spiritual storm” Christ’s followers experienced. Than we drive to Mt. Of Beatitudes where the Lord Jesus preached Sermon on the Mountain celebrate the mass here and continue to Tabgha the site of the Multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the church of St. Peter's Primacy. Driving around the Sea of Galilee you will end by the baptism site on river Jordan – time for the renewal of our Baptismal vows. At the end of the day visit the Museum hosting the boat from the time of Jesus. In the early evening we are back to our hotel, dinner and overnight in Tiberías.
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Day 6 – Oct. 22nd, 2010 MT. TABOR - JERUSALEM 
This morning we will leave Northern Israel and Sea of Galilee are and head to Jerusalem. On the way group will first visit Cana the site of Jesus first miracle. In this little town church we will have the renewal of the marriage vows and blessing of families. Next stop will be at the Mt. Tabor – site Transfiguration. Our pilgrimage continues then through the Jericho dessert, visiting the oldest city in the world - Jericho. Same afternoon you will be on the coast of the Dead Sea where will have a chance to float in with the minerals richest water in the world. Arrival to Jerusalem will be in the early evening, dinner and overnight.
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Day 7 – Oct. 23rd, 2010 - JERUSALEM
After breakfast we start our day with a view of the Holy City from the Mount of Olives following the Palm Sunday Road, the road Jesus followed on His way to Jerusalem. We stop at the chapel of Dominus Flevit
where our Lord wept and shed a tear for the city of Jerusalem (Luke 19: 37- 42). We than proceed to the Garden of Gethsemane and pray at the church of All Nations (Church of Gethsemane), where Jesus prayed: "Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me, nevertheless not my will, but thy, be done". In the afternoon we will visit the area of Mt. Zion. We will visit the church of St. Peter Gallicantu; church built on the site of the house of high priest Caiaphas, where Jesus spent night in the rooms (dungeon) that are still there. On this site Peter denied Jesus three times. We will also see the room of the Last Supper, church of Dormition where the Blessed Virgin Mary fell into Eternal Sleep.
Day 8 – Oct. 24th, 2010 BETHLEHEM - JERUSALEM
This morning we drive south of Jerusalem to Bethlehem (house of bread in Hebrew), to see the church of Nativity built over the tomb of St. Jerome. In the Grotto under the central altar one can see the Holy Manger, and the Silver Star with the Latin inscription "Hic de Maria Virgine Jesus Christus Natus est". After the visit to a birthplace of Jesus we will visit Shepherd’s field where Angels appeared to the shepherds (Luke 2), to announce the Birth of Jesus. Here is beautiful view on Mt. Herodian and Judean Hills. In the afternoon we drive towards Ein Karem. We will visit the Church of Visitation the site of the Blessed Virgin Mary's visit with her cousin Elizabeth. This is the place where Our Lady said Her "Magnificat". The birthplace of St. John the Baptist is the last church we visit today.
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Day 9 – Oct. 25th, 2010 - JERUSALEM OLD CITY
Jerusalem as our destiny, today early in the morning you will enter the old town and follow the Stations of the Cross or the Via Dolorosa – from the Pilate’s fortress to the today Church of the Holy Sepulcher, site of Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We will see the pool of Bethesda where Jesus Christ healed a man who was crippled for 38 years. The church of St Anne one of the rare churches that was spared from destruction of Moslems because was built over the crypt venerated as a birthplace of Mary and a home of her parents Joachim and Anne. Today we are also see the Temple Mount with the Al Aqsa Mosque, and the Wailing Wall. After rather long day you will have a chance to spend rest of the day on your own, shopping or additional sightseeing. Dinner will be at the hotel.
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Day 10 – Oct. 26th, 2010 - FLIGHT BACK HOME
Early morning transfer to Ben Gurion International Airport, for flight home.
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RATES: - per person in double room, price based on min 15 pilgrims in the group
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INCLUDES
+ Airfares Grand Rapids – Cairo; Cairo – Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv – Grand Rapids
+ Airport tax
+ 2 nights in Cairo, 5* hotel
+ 6 nights in Israel, first class, 4* hotels in Tiberias and Jerusalem
+ Buffet dinner and breakfast daily
+ Escort from Cairo until departure from Tel Aviv
+ Local guides in Cairo and Holy land
+ Entrance fees as per itinerary, Egyptian Museum, Nof Ginossar museum
+ Holy mass daily celebrated by priest in the group
+ Porterage of luggage in/out hotels
+ Tip for guides, hotels staff, drivers, porterage
NOT INCLUDED
+ travel insurance
+ lunch daily, drinks
+ Egypt visa, at the moment $20.00 upon entering Egypt at the Cairo Airport
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