Tour of Israel – The Holy Land

Walk Where Jesus Walked

6-15 September 2025
7 nights / 8 Days

Group tours to Israel from Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban

Much like all our tours Holy Land Tour to Israel & Jerusalem from South Africa, this tour in November 2024 offers you the chance to experience many of the wondrous holy sites that Israel has to offer. Experience the atmosphere, the Priests Blessing at the Western Wall as walk where Jesus and his Disciples walked.

Just like our other Christian tour packages to Israel from South Africa, this tour is accompanied by our highly experienced guides.There are many ways of touring Israel at all level of rates. Guides are the most important element of a tour and therefore wee employ top of the top tour guides in Israel whom are expert in Christianity history and sites. We visit all the cherished holy sites, a Baptism in the River Jordan and a night Boat Ride in the Sea of Galilee and Shiloh. We also visit sites like Canna, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Caesaria, the Church of Holy Sephulchre, the Room of Last Supper, Mount Hermon and the Garden Tomb. This is the ultimate experience for Christians to the Holy Land from South Africa.

You will be transformed and experience healing in the Holy Land

Deposit: R5,000 Due with registration
Final Payment: Due 10 weeks prior departure

We will follow all the important milestones in Jesus life (click on the links below for more information):
Nazareth, Cana, Mount Tabor, Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Tabgha, Mt. Beatitudes, Baptismal Site at Jordan River, Caesaria Phillipi, Mount Carmel, Megiddo, Caesaria, Jaffa, Ein Karem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Mount of Temptation, Dead Sea, Qumran, Massada, Ein Gedi, Jerusalem, City of David, Siloam Tunnel, Temple Mount, Pools of Bethesda, Via Dolorosa, Ecce Homo Arch, Churh of Holy Sepulchre, Room of Last Supper, Garden Tomb, Gathsemane, Western Wall, Old City Walls, Israel Museum & Dead Sea Scrolls, Yad Vashem.

Tour Features Include:

• Return flights to Israel
• 3 nights in Galilee
• 1 nights in Bethlehem
• 3 nights in Jerusalem
• Breakfast and dinner daily
• Meeting and assistance at Ben Gurion Airport.
• Touring with English speaking guide, expert in Christianity sites and history
• Entrance fees to all sites

Our “Walk Where Jesus Walked” tour takes us to all the milestones in Jesus life including all the sites in the above picture: Mount Precipice (Leaping Mountain), where the angry mob tried to push Jesus off this cliff, Mount Tabor, Izrael (Armagedden) Valley and Mount Gilboa where Saul, Israel’s first king, led a charge against the Philistines (1 Samuel 28:4). There king Saul Fell on his own sword and Saul’s sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Melchishua were killed in battle.

1 Day 1

Galilee : Caeseria / Mt. Carmel / Tiberias

Megiddo (Armageddon) & Izrael Valley

Arrive early in Tel Aviv airport and meet our guide. We drive past Tel Aviv the business capital of Israel, along the coastal highway to Caesarea, an important provincial Roman port town at the time of the Caesar Pontius Pilate. View the Roman amphitheater from times of Christ. The New Testimony tells about Jesus visit here. We drive up to the top Mount Carmel. From the top of the mountain unfolds a view of Izrael (Armagedden) Valley and the Kishon River in the horizon. Here prophet Elijah challenged the profits of the Baal: “whose God is more powerful ?”. After Elijah won, he slaughtered the prophets in the Kishon River below. The Israelites abandoned the Canaanite gods and adopted God again (1 Kings 18).

Dinner & Overnight – Sea of Galilee (B,D)

2 Day 2

Galilee : Caserea Phillipi / Kibbutz / Anciant Boat / Boat Ride / Fish Lunch / Tabgha / Peter’s Primacy / Capernaum / Mt. Beatitudes / Baptismal in Jordan River

Drive through the Hula Valley to the sacred site of Caesarea Philippi at the base of Mount Hermon and the sources of the Jordan River. Here Simon acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah, to which Jesus replied: “You are Peter ? and on this rock (Petra) I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. We travel down to Kibbutz for a tour to learn about this unique community way of life and the settlements in modern Israel. Continue to Gennosar Museum to see an ancient boat from the times of Jesus found under the water. Enjoy a Boat Ride across the Sea of Galilee and hear how Jesus calmed the stormy sea and walked upon these waters. This is uplifting experience.

Enjoy a traditional St. Peter’s Fish Lunch. Visit Peter’s Primacy. Here Jesus met again with the disciples for the “last breakfast” and restored Peter to himself after the disciple’s three denials by asking him three times if Peter loved Jesus. Short distance walk to Tabgha. The site is Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the multitude. View the mosaic, representing fishes and a basket of loaves (Mk. 6:34, Luke 9:10).

Continue to Capernaum. The Gospel tells about Jesus leaving Nazareth to settle in Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee, which became “his own town” and centre of his activities. From its community of fishermen he chose his disciples (Peter, Andrew, James, John and Matthew). Continue to Mt. Beatitudes. Above the now a church Jesus gave the Beatitudes, he taught on many occasions and also performed many of the miracles. Continue to Yardenit Baptismal site in Jordan River for optional Baptism.

Dinner & overnight – Sea of Galilee (B,D)

3 Day 3

Galilee : Cana / Nazareth / Mount Precipiece / Megiddo & Izrael Valley / Beit Shean

Visit Cana, site of the first miracle where Jesus turned water to wine. Continue to Nazareth where Jesus spent his childhood. Visit the Church of Annunciation and Joseph’s workplace.
We then visit Nazareth Village, a model showing how people in Jesus times lived and worked. Go up Mount Precipice just outside Nazareth, where tradition hold that an angry mob attempted to throw Jesus off the cliff (Luke 4:16-30). From this view point view Mount Tabor and Gliad Mountains where King Saul was defeated.

Next visit Megiddo (Armageddon), overlooking the fertile Izrael Valley. Megiddo played a prominent role in the history of the ancient Near East and one of the largest Canaanites cities, controlling the access from Egypt to Mesopotamia, which was the cause for the fiercest battles that took place here. The bible tells about Joshua defeating the Canaanite king of Megiddo, a city which king Solomon built and the site where kings Ahaziah and Joshia killed. For Christians, Armageddon is where forces of God will defeat the forces of Evil in the Final Battle at the End Day.

Visit Bet Shean where the bodies of Saul and his sons where displayed against the city walls. Walk through the archeological site revealing a remarkable Roman city and the Roman Cardo main street connected the upper city with the forum, marketplace, Roman bathhouse, and theatre.

Dinner & overnight – Sea of Galilee (B,D)

4 Day 4

Dead Sea : Jericho* / Masada / Ein Gedi / Dead Sea

Travel along the Jordan River to Jericho to view the Sycamore tree and Mount of Temptation. Continue to drive past Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Ascend Masada by cable car. Our guide will take us on a fascinating tour of this mountain where 960 Jewish defenders organized the last resistance to the Roman conquerors. Outside view the area of Ein Gedi springs where David hid his soldiers from King Saul. Enjoy a float in the salty waters of the Dead Sea and if you are looking for Beauty, cosmetics, health and skin care products, the Dead Sea water is well known to be rich in minerals bought worldwide. Ascend Judeah mountains and enter Jerusalem, the “Eternal City” of GOD. Drive into Bethlehem.

Dinner & Overnight in Bethlehem (B,D)

5 Day 5

Jerusalem: Bethlehem* / Mount of Olives / Dominus Flevit / Garden of Gathsemane

In Bethlehem* visit Church of Nativity and Shepherds Fields. Drive up Mount Of Olives. Here Jesus taught his disciples and prophesized the destruction of Jerusalem city. From here the entire Jerusalem Old City and Temple Mount unfolds before us. Walk to Dominus Flevit and walk along Palm Sunday to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus was identified by Judah and taken captive.

Dinner & Overnight – Bethlehem (B,D)

6 Day 6

Jerusalem: Western Wall & Tunnel / Temple Mount / Pools Of Bethesda / Lithostrotos / Via Dolorosa / Mount Zion / Room of Last Supper / St. Peter Gallicantu / Garden Tomb

Full day walk in the Old City. Visit the Western Wall and Western Wall Tunnel. Proceed to Pools of Bethesda, just outside Temple Mount. The pools were used by the Jews to purify themselves. Here also Jesus performed the miracle of healing an infirm man. We next visit Lithostrotos. Take a short walk along Via Dolorosa and along the Jewish Quarter to Mount Zion.

Visit the Room of Last Supper where Jesus shared Last Supper with the disciples. Next visit is to St Peter Gallicantu where the house of Caiaphas was where Peter denied Jesus. Then visit the Tomb of David. Visit Garden Tomb where we will hold a Communion Service.

Back to the Western Wall at time of evening prayer. One of our past participant described it: “Visiting the Western Wall at the beginning of Shabbat was an amazing highlight…. Probably my most favorite of the whole trip. It is now a treasured memory and I would never leave that out of a tour”.

Dinner & Overnight – Jerusalem (B,D)

7 Day 7

Garden Tomb / Yad Vashem / Ein Karem / Jaffa

Visit the Garden Tomb where we hold a prayer. Continue to Yad Vashem memorial for the Jews died in the Holocaust. Continue to Ein Karem home town of John the Baptist and where Jesus mother stop to visit her cousin on the way to Bethlehem. Travel to Jaffa to see the Old Port and Simon the Tenant House. Transfer to the airport for midnight flight home

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