Ashdod Port Shore Excursion: Jerusalem and Bethlehem Day Tour from Ashdod Port

Name: Ashdod Port Shore Excursion: Jerusalem and Bethlehem Day Tour from Ashdod Port
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3.6(31)9 HoursEnglish, SpanishAshdod

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Step off your cruise ship in Ashdod port and make the most of a day in the Holy Land with a tour of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The itinerary for this tour was created specifically for cruise passengers docking at Ashdod port. Tour guide will meet you when you disembark, and take you to Jerusalem in a comfortable vehicle with A/C. Stop to get an overview of the city from Mount Scopus before continuing to Jerusalem’s Old City. Pass the Mount of Olives, and spot the Church of All Nations and the adjacent Garden of Gethsemane. Drive parallel to the Old City walls alongside Kidron Valley, and the Ophel Promenade. Enter the Old City for a walking tour of top sites like the Western Wall, the Cardo, and Via Dolorosa. Tour the Sepulcher Church, and explore the Old City market before taking a lunch break. The tour leaves Jerusalem passing Mount Zion. The next stop is Bethlehem, to see the Nativity Church. At the end of the tour, you’ll be returned to Ashdod port and your cruise ship.

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All Fees and Taxes
A guide will accompany you all day
Air-conditioned vehicle
Pick-up/drop-off at Ashdod cruise port

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What you'll do

Stop to get an overview of the city from Mount Scopus before continuing to Jerusalem’s Old City
20 min
The Cardo
Jewish Quarter, , Jerusalem, Israel
Enter the Byzantine Cardo lined with columns in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City
20 min
Jewish Quarter
Old City, , Jerusalem, Israel
Visit the Jewish Quarter in Old City of Jerusalem
20 min
Western Wall
Western Wall Plaza, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem, Israel
We enter the Old City on foot through one of the massive gates in the 16th-century walls and pass the Western Wall excavations as we walk towards the Western Wall. This sacred Jewish site is all that remains from the 2,000-year-old holy Jewish Temple that once stood on Temple Mount
30 min
The Holy Sepulcher Church was built in the 4th century to encompass Christ’s tom
b and the site of the crucifixion at Golgotha (Calvary)
30 min
The Way of the Cross - Via Dolorosa
Via Dolorosa, Old Town, Jerusalem, Israel
We walk along a section of the Via Dolorosa, as Jesus did bearing his cross
30 min
Christian Quarter
Christian Quarter Road, , Jerusalem, Israel
Visit the Christian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem
30 min
Old City of Jerusalem
, , Jerusalem, Israel
We enter the Old City on foot through one of the massive gates in the 16th-century walls and pass the Western Wall excavations as we walk towards the Western Wall
2 hours
Church of the Nativity
Manger St, Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
In Bethlehem, we tour the Nativity Church and see the Holy Grotto where the nativity took place. Occasionally there are too many visitors at the Nativity Grotto in Bethlehem, which makes a visit not always possible.
1 hour