Albert Tours
Private Tour Guide in Israel
Bible - History - Archaeology
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Jerusalem Tours
The city of Jerusalem dates back from the period of the Patriarchs, and is an important site of worship for the three monotheist faiths. It also attracts people interested in archaeology as it is the most excavated site on Earth. There are many fun activities for children too.
I have three popular tour itineraries that we can adapt according to your particular interests.
Religions
We will start our day with a morning visit to the Temple Mount to view the Dome of the Rock, El-Aqsa mosque and other sites.
We continue to some stations of the Via Dolorosa until the Muristan where we have lunch.
The afternoon visits will take us to the Holy Sepulcher, then a rooftop panorama of the Old City. We then go the Western Wall, then up to the Jewish Quarter and view the Cardo and the Hurva synagogue. From there we exit the Old City from Sion Gate and visit the Room of the Last Supper. Depending on time, we will add a few more sites along the way.
For a Christian Tour in particular, click to the specific page here.
History
Jerusalem's unique history is alive on every corner. We will start with the Davidson Center and the Wall excavations for structures dating back from the First and Second Temples. Then we visit the underground Kotel Tunnels, to understand the Herodian construction around the Second Temple. The exit from the tunnels which will take us to the Ecce Homo convent which we can visit if time permits to see the remains of the Roman Jerusalem of the 2nd century.
Then we will stroll along the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus is believed to have walked on the way to his crucifixion. We will stop for lunch at one of the many restaurants.
We will then continue via the former Crusader markets, see the ancient walls of the city from different ages and head to the Jewish Quarter to see the Roman-Byzantine Cardo. Walking out from the city walls dating from Soliman the Magnificent, we will visit Mount Zion with the Tomb of David and the Cenaculum (Room of the Last Supper) with its historical context. Then, if time permits, we can finish with the Tower of David museum which covers over 3000 years of history of Jerusalem.
Family
With a family and their children, we start with the museum of the Tower of David, then walk to the Muristan and go up the bell tower of the Church of the Redemptor.
Back to the shuks where we have lunch at a tasty hummus place, we then continue to the roof panorama towards the Dome of the Rock. We continue to the Jewish Quarter to see the Cardo and then down to the City of David to learn about the Jerusalem of Biblical times and, also, to get our feet in the water inside the Hezekiah Tunnel (except if someone suffers from claustrophobia). On the way back, we walk inside the underground Herodian Street and drainage system to reach the Wall excavations in the Davidson Center. We end the day at the Kotel Plaza.
