Nazareth and Sea of Galilee Private Tour from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv


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Duration: 10 hours

Departs: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Biblical Highlights of Nazareth, Tiberias, and the Sea of Galilee 

Discover the New Testament sites of Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee. In Nazareth, Jesus’ childhood home, explore the Church of the Annunciation and Church of St Joseph. After your Nazareth tour, visit some fabled miracle locations around the Sea of Galilee including the site of Tabgha. Visit Capernaum and then pass through Tiberias on route to the Jordan River, with the chance to be baptized in its waters. 

Unforgettable memories will be precious for lifetime. 

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• Receive the undivided attention of a private guide on this private tour
• Full day Private trip to Nazareth, Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee
• Visit the Church of the Annunciation and Church of St Joseph. 
• Guided tour of popular Holy Land sights,
• Transport by air-conditioned coach 
• Hotel pick-up and drop-off


What's Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off.

Private tour

Professional guide

Transport by air-conditioned car.

What's Not Included

Entry fees, parkings, meals and are not included.

Food and drinks

Insurance


Traveler Information

  • TRAVELER: Age: 0 - 99

Additional Info

  • Face masks required for travellers in public areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Recommended for this tour: Comfortable walking shoes, hats, sun screen. Modest dress and head covering are required for visiting holy sites.
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Face masks required for travellers in public areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Recommended for this tour: Comfortable walking shoes, hats, sun screen. Modest dress and head covering are required for visiting holy sites.
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy


What To Expect

Nazareth
There are a many sites of interest to the Christian pilgrim in the Galilee. You can choose from those listed below to make your own personal tour.
Depart your central Tel Aviv or Jerusalem hotel or apartment by air-conditioned coach and travel to the north of Israel to visit Nazareth and Sea of Galilee Christian Sites.

• Admission Ticket Free

Church Of Annunciation
In Nazareth there are a number of options. Church of Annunciation, built on the site where the angel Gabriel appeared before Mary is probably top of the list. Right next to it is the Church of St. Joseph, recalling the carpentry where Jesus and Joseph worked.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

St. Gabriel's Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
Among the other places of interest are the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel and the adjoining well and, in the market, in the courtyard of the Greek Catholic Church are perhaps the remains of the synagogue in which Jesus preached.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Jezreel Valley Winery
On the outskirts of Nazareth, offering a panoramic view of the Jezreel Valley is the Mount of Precipitation where “they lead him to the brow of the hill … that they might throw him down”.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Kfar Cana
Cana, site of the first wonder performed by Jesus, the turning of the water to wine is about half an hour from Nazareth, on the way to Tiberias and the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tiberias
At Tiberias it is possible to board a wooden boat reminiscent of those used by the fishermen of yore. During a short ride on the the Sea of Galilee one cannot but recall how Jesus calmed the stormy waters and walked on them.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kfar Nahum National Park
On the shores of the Kinneret you can visit the Church and excavations at Capernaum, home of Peter, as well as the Benedictine Church commemorating the miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fish and the Franciscan Church of Mensa Christi where Jesus was revealed to the disciples for the last time .

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Sea of Galilee
Pass or visit the Sea of Galilee

• Admission Ticket Free

Yardenit
On the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, at Yardenit, there may be an opportunity for those so desiring to be baptized in the waters of the Jordan River.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Mount Tabor
Time permitting it may be possible to ascend Mount Tabor to the Church of the Transfiguration where Jesus was “transfigured before them and his face shone like the sun and his garments became white as light”.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Church of Mount of Beatitudes
Looking down on the shore is the Church on Mount Beatitude which commemorates the Sermon on the Mount.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Megiddo National Park
At the northern end of the Sea of Galilee are the newly excavated remains of Bethsaida where Jesus healed a blind man . Depending on the route traveled you may be drive through the plain of Armageddon, with a view of biblical Megiddo.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included






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