BETHLEHEM AND EIN KEREM TOUR

Service Description

Private tour to Bethlehem and Ein Kerem in a comfortable private car driven by your guide.This tour is dedicated to visiting Jesus and John the Baptist Birthplace towns, ​Arrive in Bethlehem, a 15-minute ride drive from the Old City located in Palestine. Cross the border into Palestine. ​At Bethlehem visit the great Church of the Nativity at Manger Square. Walk through the church, where religious ceremonies have been performed for seventeen hundred years. Head to the Grotto of the Nativity. See the Altar with the inscribed star commemorating the nativity and the manger where Jesus was born. ​Stop at St. Catherine of Alexandria formerly a Franciscan Convent. View the stained glass window, representative of the nativity, and The Bas-relief of the Tree of Jesse, given to the church by Pope Benedict XVI. ​And finally, after a breathtaking drive through the forests of Judea, you will arrive to Ein Kerem – the birth place of John the Baptist, to walk its winding alleys and to visit the great churches at the places where John was born and of the Visitation, where Holy Mary met John’ mother Elisabeth. Finally, we shall drive you back to your hotel at Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. ​You may also enjoy a lunch at one of the local restaurants, at you own.