Wonderful Experience, 3 countries in 2 weeks!
I have to admit that I was a skeptic when it came to going on a tour with +40 people I didn’t know. But I’m so glad that we went. I’m sure our tour was covered in prayer – before and during the tour. About 3 days in we were no longer strangers but were becoming friends – laughing with each other and singing together (in the bus and on the Sea of Galilee) and supporting each other. Now we are friends on FB š. There is a lot of walking on the tour, that is the only way to see everything in the allotted time and some things you’ll wish you had more time on and some things you’ll wish you had less time on – be sure to listen to the guides! – take notes regularly and lots of pictures. All of the guides are very professional – we had Osama in Egypt, Jay in Jordan, and Lital in Israel. In Jordan and Israel, Jay and Lital read or had someone read the bible verses that went with the sites we visited. Lital was especially great about asking what we thought about what the Bible said at each site and listened intently – it was great getting the different points of view. She was extremely knowledgeable about the sites and pointed out why a certain site was associated with the Bible, who made the claim and made know other views about the site to let us come to our own conclusions. Lital was cognizant of my wife’s knee injury (injured before the trip) and was compassionate with her helping her get a taxi back to the hotel when the knee gave out during one of the days and other days allowing her to skip one of the sites to rest the knee. That all being said, Lital was a jewel. And all of the bus drivers were skilled “craftsman” and very nice and courteous. A lady named Naomi came and stayed with the tour as we went through customs from Egypt to Israel to Jordan and stayed until we made it into the Israel leg of the tour – she was very nice and knowledgeable and professional and helped so much with the customs part. I highly recommend America Israel tours to anyone wanting to visit the Holy Land area – especially the Into the Promised Land tour. Oh – if you opt for the Nile cruise be sure to eat something before hand, when we went the buffet was meh. Hope this helps someone.