Bespoke Personal and Group Tours in Israel
All of our personal and group tours are design to be bespoke to your requirements. If you’ve looked through our site you will have gathered that we don’t tend to do the obvious. However, there is no doubt that certain sights and locations in Israel just have to be visited, and we do that, but with a personal twist wherever possible.
Tours of Jerusalem (The City of Gold)
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, this City is on the crossroads of modern and ancient religion. Mount Moriah and the Dome of the Rock – where Abraham brought Isaac to be sacrificed; where the Holy of Holies of the Jewish Temple stood; where Jesus overturned the stalls of the merchants; where later the Prophet Muhammad stood before ascending to heaven.
Western Wailing Wall – write your personal request.
Via Dolorosa, the Stations of the Cross, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher where Jesus was crucified and buried.
View the Old City from the heights of the Mount of Olives and visit the Church of the Garden of Gethsemene.
King David’s Tomb and the Room of the Last Supper.
The ancient steps that Jesus climbed to enter the Temple.
Alternatively take one of our arial tours of the city by helicopter! It’s an eye opening view of a diverse city, in many ways.
Galilee of the Jews
Sipphoris, the capitol of the Galilee after the destruction of the Second Temple, home of the Rabbis who compiled and edited the Talmud and the Mishna. See the beautiful mosaic floors, the ritual baths, the cardo and the ancient reservoir.
Safed, the Mystical City where the Kabbalah sought influence, the synagogues, the verandah where The “Ari” wrote the prayers we use today to welcome the Sabbath, the graves of the holy people of yesterday. Enjoy the mountain views and visit the artist quarter, where traditional meets modern city life.
Tiberius, built at the time of King Herod the Great, later a burial site of Jewish nobles such as Rabbi Moses Ben-Maimon. The 2000 year old mosaic floor of the synagogue has to be seen as does Mount Meron and the Sea of Galilee.
Israel Today
Visit the baptismal site at Yardenit or spend a day on the Golan Heights.
Kibbutz Tel-Katsir, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, threatened by the Syrians between 1948-1967.
Climb the Golan Heights to Peace Vista where the Syrian soldiers had their emplacements looking down on Israel.
A tour of the plain and it’s stunningly beautiful landscape. With snow covered mountain peaks, volcanoes, streams and waterfalls. Visit the reservoirs, villages and the historic Roman Crusader ruins and fortresses. At certain times of the year you can ski on the Golan. With notice and the luck of the weather this can be arranged. Just ask us for details.
Visit Mount Keramim and see the Druze villages, the Hermon Mountain and the Ram Pool – a volcanic crater. Take tea with a local Druze artist and see his works, meet his family, see their house and hear his views of the situation.
Galilee of the Christians
Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth where the Angel Gabriel first appeared to Mother Mary. Cana and the “Wedding” churches dedicated to His first miracle.
Mount of Beatitudes where He gave the Sermon of the Mount, Tabcha where He fed the multitudes on five loaves and two fish, Capernum the village of Jesus with its ancient synagogue and first “praying room”.
Archeology
Visit Meggido (Armageddon) and see more than twenty archaeological layers of successive human occupations that started here some 7000 years ago; Kings Solomon’s and Ahab’s stables, walls and gates, a hidden tunnel to the spring, a silo and many temples.
Walk in the recently reconstructed center of the Jewish/Roman/Byzantine city of Beit-Shean and see the temples, the cardo, the fountain and pool, the theater, the amphitheater and the Roman baths.
Climb the ramparts of the Crusader Fortress of Belvoir and enjoy the view. Travel thru the Jezreel valley where Gideon ambushed the Middianites, where the Judge Deborah brought havoc upon the mighty chariot army of Sisrah and where King Saul and his son Jonathan lost their lives to the Philistines.
The Judean Plain
Visit the Armored Corps Museum and Memorial site at Laterun. Climb the tanks and feel the might of the Israeli Army.
Walk thru the Absalom stalagmite caves and see nature’s beautiful creations.
Visit Beit-Guvrin and Maresha, an immense area full of Greek/Roman man-made caves used as reservoirs, olive presses, bath houses, burial caves and bell shape mines. See the amphitheater.
Travel thru the Elah valley where the shepherd boy David slayed Goliath. See the Roman milestones on the ancient road to Jerusalem.
The “Dead Sea”
Descend to the 400 meter below-sea-level Dead Sea thru the Judean mountain desert.
Visit Kumeran where 2000 years ago the “monks” of the Essene sect wrote and later hid the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Visit Massada, a massive table mountain, that King Herod the Great used as his mountain retreat. See his palaces, baths, pools, synagogue, store rooms and fortifications. Hear how later the Sicarii zealots defied the Roman siege.
In the afternoon relax at the beach and swim in the sea.
On the way see the Inn of the Good Samaritan. Cross the plains of Jerico where Joshua marched, where Elijah ascended to Heaven in his fiery chariot and where John the Baptist roamed. View the magnificent wonders of the geological formations of the Dead Sea Rift Valley.
Western Galilee
View the beautiful mountain and port city of Haifa. Spend a minute of solace in the cave where Elijah the Prophet hid from King Ahab. Visit the majestic Bahai Shrine and its hanging gardens.
Tour the Crusader Fortress of The Knights of Saint John in Acre. See the White Mosque with its underground reservoir, the port of the Crusader trading fleets and modern fishing boats, the Ottoman Khan, the bath house, the secret escape tunnels.
Take the cable car to the grottos at Rosh-Hanikra carved out by the massive force of the sea. Have your picture taken at the Lebanese Border gate. View the beautiful northern sea coast of Israel.
Bedouins & The Desert
Drive through the northern Negev Desert to a Bedouin tent camp near Dimona. Enjoy their hospitality and learn about their way of life, customs and adjustment to today’s society.
Take a 2-hour trek on the back of a camel and see the mountain desert and nearby canyon.
Later relax in a Bedouin tent and participate in the traditional “Hafla” – a Bedouin meal of “Mansaf”, pita bread, salads, soft drinks and coffee.
In the afternoon visit the ancient, 2000 year old, ruins of the Nabathean town of Mamshit (Kornov) and see how the nomad tribe of camel train navigators adjusted to the then Roman urban society.
If time permits (daylight) tour the Big Machtesh, a unique geological “crater” formation and see the wonders of the forces of nature.
Wine Tasting
Israel has about a dozen big and established wineries and over 150 family and boutique wineries with more to come.
Enjoy one or more wine tasting tours to the various Israeli wineries in these areas:
The Golan Heights.The Upper Galilee Mountains and the Dalton Heights.
The Carmel Mountain and the Jizrael Valley.
The Judean Plains and the Sharon Coast.
The Jerusalem Mountains.
The Northern Negev Desert.
Tour one of the big and established wineries in each area to learn the process and then try 2-3 boutique and family wineries.
At each winery we will be able to taste a few of their wines and if you like them you can always take a bottle or two home.
The tours will be organized regionally in the areas where we are spending an overnight and can also be done as one day tours out of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
Add a short culinary experience to your trip by having lunch or dinner at a local “native” restaurant where you will not meet any other tourists, only Israelis out for a special meal. These restaurants are local, authentic places from the various cultures that have gathered in Israel from the four corners of the Earth. I promise not to take you to any gourmet restaurants.
Add a visit to a goat and sheep cheese farm or to an olive oil production facility (olives, oil, soaps and heath products) and experience something typically Mediterranean.