Suggested Program for Choirs
9 Days / 8 Nights Itinerary
This program is a suggestion only. We will be happy to adjust it according to your specifications and suit your special requirements.
Why Amiel Tours for Choir visits to Israel?
The benefit of arranging the visit of choirs in Israel through Amiel Tours is that in addition to visiting the holy sites and having a spiritually meaningful tour of the Holy Land, Amiel Tours will also make every effort to bring interested audiences to attend the concerts. We will do this by promoting and advertising your concerts amongst our other groups visiting Israel at the time, which in the past has proved to be a very effective. While we cannot guarantee the size of the audience at your concerts, we are committed to making an all out effort to ensure that they will be well attended.
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Daily Programs
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Day 1
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Arrival to Tel Aviv International Airport.Meeting and assistance by Amiel Representative. Meet your guide and transfer to Tel Aviv hotel for dinner & overnight.
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Day 2
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After breakfast drive to the Old City of Jaffa and the fisherman's port. Tour of the White City of Tel Aviv; a World Heritage Site founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The buildings were designed by architects who were trained in Europe and they created an outstanding architectural ensemble of the Modern Movement in a new cultural context.
Stop by Rabin Square before driving along the Mediterranean shoreline to visit Caesarea (Acts 9 and 25). Visit the site of Caesarea including the theater, water aqueduct and the hippodrome. Continue to the port city of Haifa and view the magnificent Hanging Bahai Gardens before arrival to Mt Carmel (1 Kings 18); The Carmelite Monastery of St. Elijah marks the place where the prophet Elijah set up his altar and triumphed over the false prophets of Ba'al.
Drive to the Sea of Galilee for dinner and overnight.
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Day 3
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After breakfast take a Boat Ride on the Sea of Galilee. Visit Mount of Beatitudes (Sermon on the Mount, Matt. 5-7). Continue to visit Caesarea Philippi (Banias) or Tel Dan. Ascend the Golan Heights to Mt Bental, viewpoint of Israel and Syrian border.
Descend the Golan Heights to visit Tabgha: The variety of the flora and fauna of the region can be seen in the stunning mosaic floor that was created by two artists in the 2nd century. Site of the miracle of the Christian Savior who fed 5000 starving people with 2 fishes and 5 loaves (Mark > 6). Visit Capernaum (Matt. 4;13); where a 2nd century synagogue was discovered and provides new light on the life of the community of that era.
Dinner and overnight Sea of Galilee
Optional evening
concert in Church
of Multiplication Tabgha (above pic.) |
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Day 4
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We depart our hotel for Mt. Tabor, believed to be the site of the Transfiguration and related to the biblical story of Deborah and Barak (Judges 4; 14). Enjoy the striking view of the Jezreel Valley below. Visit the Sanhedrin City of Zippori and see the beautiful mosaic floor called the Mona Lisa of Galilee. On to the unique biblical village of KFAR KEDEM; learn about our biblical traditions.
Continue to Nazareth where we will visit the Church of Annunciation. Visit the sites including St. Joseph's Workshop and Mary's Well. We stop at Cana, the site of Jesus' first miracle at the wedding feast. Here we invite couples to renew their marriage vows. End the day at Yardenit, site of baptism at the Jordan River
Evening Concert on the shore of the Sea of Galilee or in the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
Dinner and overnight Sea of Galilee. |
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Day 5
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After breakfast drive south to visit Beit Shean – Scythopolis: see the Roman Theater the amphitheater and the Paladius Street.
Continue along the Jordan Valley and stop for a view point on Jericho. Drive south to Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, see the Visitor's Center, the Essene Farm and Qumran Caves (the actual location where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found). Enjoy a swim & float at the Dead Sea.
On the way to Jerusalem stop for a viewpoint at St. George's Monastery, one of the most ancients monasteries in Israel, hidden in a beautiful canyon in Wadi Kelt, in the heart of the Judean Wilderness.
Upon entering Jerusalem, stop for a magnificent overview from Mount Scopus, overlooking the Holy City and the Temple Mount.
Check in to your hotel
Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem. |
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Day 6
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Breakfast in your hotel. Ascend Mt. of Olives for a view of Jerusalem: Overlooking the Old City, the mount is covered partly in olive trees, cemeteries and churches - commemorating the Christian events of Jesus. On to visit the Garden of Gethsemane where the ancient olive trees are believed to date back to the time of Christ. Visit the Church of All Nations. Enter the Old City of Jerusalem via the Lions Gate to visit St Anna Church & the Pool of Bethesda. Continue along the Stations of the Cross (Via Dolorosa) to the Church Holy Sepulchre. Walk through the Jewish Quarter and the Cardo to Mt Zion to visit the Last Supper Room and King David's Tomb. End our day at the Western Wall.
Dinner and overnight in Jerusalem.
Optional evening
Concert at Dormition Abbey on Mt Zion
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Day 7
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Our day in the New City of Jerusalem begins at the Israeli Parliament & Menora. Proceed to the Israel Museum and see the Shrine of the Book and Scale Model of Jerusalem. Next stop is at YAD VASHEM; the Holocaust Memorial Museum. We travel to Bethlehem, site of the birth of Jesus. Our visit here includes Shepherds' Field and the Church of the Nativity.
Time permitting, a short visit to Ein Karem believed to be the birthplace of John the Baptist.
Dinner and overnight Jerusalem.
Optional evening
concert at St Anna Church
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Day 8
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AM: After breakfast visit the new Archeological site at the City of David & Hezekiah Tunnel, and the newly excavated Pool of Siloam. On to an amazing tour through the Wall Tunnels, including a walk along the concealed part of the Western Wall. See the hidden parts of the Holy Temple walls, as they were in Roman Times, prior the destruction of the Temple in the year 70 CE.
Afternoon at leisure.
Evening: Farewell Concert at the Church of Abu Gosh, followed by a Farewell Dinner in Abu Gosh
Overnight in Jerusalem hotel.
Optional evening concert at yhe Church of Abu-Gosh |
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Day 9
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Transfer to Tel Aviv Airport for flight back home |
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