Pilgrimage to Israel on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Price includes:

• Return flight Chisinau - Tel-Aviv
• Hotel accommodation 4 nights/5 days
• 2 meals per day (breakfast and dinner)
• Group leader and local guide
• All transfers according to the program

Does not include:

• Paid entrance fees
• Tips for local providers (e.g. drivers, local guides): 20 USD/person - practiced in Israel and payable on arrival

Day I, 17.01, Tuesday:

Arrival in Tel Aviv, meet your guide at the airport.

The Pilgrimage Center is not responsible for flight delays or other border service actions.

Lod. St. George's Church - Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in the city. Lod, Israel. The new church was built in 1872. In the crypt of the church is the tomb of the Great Martyr George the Bringer of Victory.

Jaffa: Right Tavita Complex. The Church of St. Peter the Apostle and the Tavita Right is an Orthodox church in the city of Jaffa, Israel, within the Russian Tavita Right Complex, administered by the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. It is consecrated in honor of the feast of the honored chain of the Apostle Peter, and the north aisle is dedicated to the Right Tavita.

Transfer to hotel in Bethlehem. Dinner. Rest.

Day II, 18.01, Wednesday:

Breakfast.

Jericho.

• The monastery and the tree of Zacchaeus
• Mount of temptation Carantania and the monastery
• The Great Sacrament of the Great Host by the Patriarch of
• Jerusalem, Father Theophilus, at the Jordan River - the place of the
• Baptism of Jesus Christ (immersion in the waters of the Jordan)
• The Monastery of St. Gerasim of Jordan
• Hotel accommodation, dinner, rest.

Night Mass at the Tomb of the Lord.

Day III, 19.01, Thursday:

Breakfast. The following sights will be visited:

Gornensky Nunnery
Jerusalem.

• The Lion Gate
• Church on the site of the birth of the Virgin Mary
• The dungeon where the Lord was imprisoned, the church and the Holy Sepulchre
• Way of the Cross, Via de la Rossa
• Church of St. Alexander. Threshold of the Gate of Judgement
• Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• Stone of the Anointing
• Golgotha
• Stone of scourging
• Supper, rest.

Day IV, 20.01, Friday:

Breakfast.

The following sights will be visited:

• Mount Tabor. Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
• Nazareth. Church and spring of the Annunciation
• Cana of Galilee - site of the first miracle
• Magdala - bathing in the holy springs Capernaum. Monastery of the Twelve Apostles
• Lake Galilee.
• Supper, rest.

Day V, 21.01, Saturday:

The following sights will be visited:

Bethlehem.

• Church of the Nativity and the Cave of the Nativity
• Cave of the slain children
• Lunch. Leaving the hotel.
• Shepherds' Field
• The Lavra of Cousin Theodosius the Great
• The Lavra of the Cure of Saint Saviour

Jerusalem.

• Mount of Olives
• Greek Monastery of the Ascension of the Lord "Pantocrator"
• Place of the Ascension of our Lord, footprints
• Russian Monastery of the Ascension of the Lord
• Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene
• Tomb of Our Lady
• Garden of Gethsemane

Transfer to the airport. Flight to Chisinau.