Day 4 - Central Galilee

Thursday, October 15

This morning travel to Nazareth, visiting Mary’s well (the chief spring of the ancient village),  where Mary would have drawn water and done her family’s laundry and walk through the present-day bazaar, over the site of the ancient village, to the Church of the Annunciation. 

Today we will also visit Nazareth Village - a re-creation of a 1st century Jewish village and have lunch there.

Continue to the viewing ridge, from which one sees the site of the ancient village on one side and the Jezreel Plain and Mt. Tabor on the other.  

Then drive to nearby Sepphoris, the only city in the midst of Galilee at the time when Jesus was growing up — today a rich archaeological site of fantastic mosaic floors. 

Brief stop at modern Cana, commemorating Jesus’ transformation of water into wine and a visit to Mt Tabor round out the day.