Coral Travel & Tours operates full-day and half-day tours of Jerusalem for Christians. Their "Half Day Tour of Jerusalem of Gold" departs daily from Tel Aviv. The first stop on the tour is the Mount of Olives, where Jesus often taught and prayed with His disciples. The tour continues to Jerusalem's Old City to visit the Jewish, Armenian and Christian quarters and several working archaeological excavations. There are also stops at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Jewish Wailing Wall and the Western Wall, and walks along the Via Dolorosa. The full-day "Jerusalem of Gold" tour continues where the half-day leaves off, taking Christian visitors to Jerusalem's New City, the Last Supper room, the tomb of King David and the Dormition Abbey.
Coral Travel & Tours
215 Millburn Ave.
Millburn, NJ 07041
866-267-2511
coraltours.org
Israel Christian Tours, with headquarters in Tel Aviv, offers Christian tourists a day tour of Jerusalem. Guided tours depart from Tel Aviv by bus to Jerusalem. Visitors tour the Old City and the Christian Quarter by way of the Via Dolorosa (the Way of Suffering), the street said to be the direct path Jesus took to crucifixion. Christians also visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mount of Olives, the Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Holocaust memorial museum (called Yad Vashem) and the old Roman market (called Cardo).
Israel Christian Tours
26 Ben-Yehuda St.,
Tel-Aviv 63401, Israel
800-762-1779
israelchristiantours.com
Desert Eco Tours offers a one-day guided Jerusalem tour that stops at all of the major Christian sites. The tour begins in Jerusalem at the Church of Agony, located in the Garden of Gethsemane where Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus. Tourists continue to the Mount of Olives and then through Jerusalem's Zion gate, (also called David's Gate), to Jerusalem's Old City. Once in the Old City, Desert Eco Tours takes Christians to all four quarters. The Jerusalem tour makes stops at other important Christian sites, like the Temple Mount, the Church of Saint Ann, the Bethesda pools, the Church of the Condemnation, the Church of Our Lady and the Chapel of the Flagellation, where reputedly Jesus endured a whipping with a cat-o'-nine-tails before crucifixion. Some sites outside the city walls, such as Mount Zion and the Church of the Dormition, are also on the tour.
Desert Eco Tours
P.O. Box 4113
Zofit center, Eilat Israel
+972-522765753
desertecotours.com
