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Abrahamic Faith Tour
World Peace Travel
Petra, Jordan
*Actual dates of travel to be
determined*
Estimated Tour Fee $1980/per person, not including airfare
This fee does not include registration for the IIPT Interfaith
Tourism Conference scheduled at the end of the tour.
Day 1--Depart
Day 2-- Arrive in Amman. Drive to Petra for overnight.
Day 3-- Visit Petra, where
the Nabataean Arabs, ancient masters of the desert, carved breathtaking temples
and monuments, 800 in all, out of the multi-colored sandstone. |
Petra |
Mount Nebo |
Drive to
Mount Nebo, from which God showed
Moses the Promised Land. Overnight in Amman.
Day 4-- Cross the Allenby Bridge. At
Jericho, we visit the tell of this oldest city and view the traditional
mountain of Jesus' temptation. |
Then we drive north through the Jordan Valley to
the mound of
Beth Shean, hearing the story of Saul and viewing the ruins of Roman
Scythopolis. We end the day, if time permits, at the
Arbel cliff, which affords a view over the Lake of Galilee and the main
sites of Jesus' ministry. Lodging near Sea of Galilee. |
Arbel cliff |
Church at
Mt. of Beatitudes |
Day 5-- We drive along
the Sea of Galilee to
Capernaum, where
we visit the synagogue and the place where early Christians remembered Peter's
house. Ascending the
Mt. of Beatitudes,
we listen to Jesus' teachings. On an ancient trade route, we pay a brief visit
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Hazor. |
We then
ascend to Safed,
where Jewish mysticism flowered in the 16th century. We visit some of
the synagogues and hear about the teachings of the legists and mystics who lived
here. We return to our lodging near the Sea of Galilee.
Day
6--We
start at
Nazareth, visiting
the area of the ancient village (Church of the Annunciation)
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Safed |
Mt. Tabor |
and taking in a
view of
Mt. Tabor and the
Jezreel Plain.
Then on to Akko
(Acre), where we shall visit the Jazzar
Mosque, as well as
sites connected with the bizarre history of this oriental city, from the
Crusader period through Napoleon’s siege. Overnight in the Haifa area.
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Day 7-- We visit Muhraka
on
Mt. Carmel, site
of
Elijah's confrontation with
the prophets of Baal. Then we drive south along the coast to
Caesarea Maritima.
We
explore this Roman
bridgehead to the East, which became the Christian springboard to the West.
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Mt. Carmel |
We then follow the
traditional Palm Sunday route to the church known as
Dominus Flevit
("the Lord weeps"). We continue downhill to
Gethsemane, where
we hear the Gospel text.
We then drive to the
excavations south
of the al-Aqsa
Mosque, where we pass through the remains of Omayyad palaces and see
traces of the Temple’s destruction by the Romans(the great historical
watershed, which resulted, some believe, in the split between Judaism
and Christianity. |
Gethsemane |
Western Wall |
We visit the
Western Wall,
Judaism's holiest site. From here we walk to the 5th Station of the
Via Dolorosa,
following it to the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher. After
a late lunch in the Old City, we visit the Garden Tomb.
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Day 10-- Back across the
Allenby Bridge to Jordan. Visit Bethany beyond Jordan, site of Christ’s
baptism, where IIPT launched the Global Peace Parks program in 2000. Visit
Jerash,
which boasts more Roman columns than Rome. Overnight in Amman.
Day 11—IIPT conference
and dinner. (Additional Cost)
Day 12--Depart
For more
information and to join the tour, please contact:
Donald King
iiptambassador@swissmail.org
International Institute for Peace Through Tourism
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