Wifi is not up to par in the two hotels we stayed in in Tel Aviv and Nazareth. It takes forever to upload photos and twice I lost all data in my blog as a result of not having the patience to wait before it was saved.
I will be brief as much as possible in my travelogue and will send as much photos as the wifi would allow me.
We started our Holy Land Tour arriving in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 26, 2018. Our group consists of 40 other people, about half of whom Trini and I are related and know. The rest came from the East Coast and are meeting them for the first time.
Our tour agent booked us with Air Canada and had a lay over in Toronto to change planes. We boarded a spacious Boeing 787 Dreamliner taking about 9 and a half hours to take us to Tel Aviv.
Our group after an interminable wait in the immigration line
Our tour welcoming guy
Tel Aviv in the backgroundReady, aim, fire….public excecution – guilty for being happy!Doesn’t this building look like Gaudi’s Btalla masterpiece in Barcelona?Our tour groupMost of the group went to see the underground water system in Megiddo. According to the bible, Megiddo will be the place where Armageddon will take place.
The “survivors” coming out of the water system tunnel which took us about 20 minutes climbing up and down steep stairwells.
The second day of our tour took most of the day: visiting Jaffa, Caesarea, Megiddo, Haifa and finally Nazareth where we will be staying for 3 nights.
Our group with our tour guide, Geva. This is an ancient coliseum in Caesarea – a very important port during the Roman and Byzantin Empires’ time located along the Mediterranean SeaThe beach near our hotel in Tel Aviv.Along the boardwalk near our hotel in Tel Aviv
I am so happy to see you and Manang Nini embark on this Holy Land Pilgrimage with the Antonio’s. I wish you all a blessed and spirit-filled Pilgrimage.
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I am so happy to see you and Manang Nini embark on this Holy Land Pilgrimage with the Antonio’s. I wish you all a blessed and spirit-filled Pilgrimage.
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Thank you, Mil! This is really a very uplifting (spiritually) trip. We all renewed our marriage vows with a couple of dozen people. =)
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