KMA Enterprises | Pilgrimage Cruise

DAY 1 | DEPART MANILA
Via Qatar Airways
Arrival ATHENS – Overnight Athens Hotel
Includes a visit to: The Acropolis, The Old Palace, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament and The Changing of the Guards. The Temple of Zeus, The Olympic Stadium (the original stadium built in the 1863 for the first modern Olympic games in 1896) and finally, The Plaka.

DAY 2-3 | Embarkation COASTAL SHIP & CABIN Assignment (B. D) - SEA TO EGYPT
PM: CRUISE TO CAIRO
Orientation of the Cruise
Recollection

DAY 4 | ARRIVAL CAIRO (B.D)
PM: CRUISE TO JERUSALEM
Shuttle/Coach will pick-up from the pier proceed for a tour of the Egyptian Museum, city tour, Pyramids and Sphinx.

DAY 5 | MT. SINAI/JERUSALEM (B.D)
We advise you to prepare for a 3 days Hotel stay for 3 days tour.
You will have an optional early morning climb to Mt. Sinai and return back to the ship for breakfast prior to Shuttle pick-up from pier. You will visit St. Catherine Monastery then drive to Taba Eliat Border to cross to Israel. You will be met and assisted upon arrival in Israel and drive thru Arava Dessert. You will then visit Jericho for the Mount of Temptation and Sycamore Tree. You will tour after the pool of Bethesda and the Church of St. Anne. You will also visit the Model Scale of the city before returning back for dinner and overnight. Dinner and overnight at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem.

DAY 6 | EIN KAREM/BETLEHEM (B.D)
After breakfast at the hotel, you will start at Ein Karem to visit St. John the Baptist Church and Church of the Visitation (Magnificat) where the Blessed Virgin Mary visited Elizabeth. Then move on to Betlehem to visit the Shepherd’s Field, The Church of Nativity, Basilica and Grotto of the Nativity, Manger Square, Cave Chapel and Milk Grotto, continue on to Mt. of Olives to visit the Ascension Chapel, Church of Peter Noster, Dominus Flevit, Palm Sunday Road to the Church of All Nations and Gethsemane Garden to see Rock of Agony. Visit Mt. Zion area to see Domition Abbey and the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu. View of Potter’s Field, the Upper Room for mass and King David’s Tomb. Then return back to the ship for dinner and night cruise.

DAY 7 | GALLILEE – DEAD SEA AREA (B.D)
PM: RETURN TO THE SHIP
NIGHT CRUISE TO CYPRUS
After hotel breakfast, drive to Jericho to view again Mt. of Temptation then proceed to Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves. The final stop would be the Dead Sea area and you can experience “floating without the benefit of drowning.” Return back to Jerusalem for dinner and overnight stay.

DAY 8 | CYPRUS (B.D)
AM: ARRIVAL AT UMMASOL, CYPRUS
WHOLE DAY TOUR
Shuttle/Coach will pick-up from the pier to visit the Cyprus Medieval Museum is located near the old port of Limassol. Byzantine castle, Kourion, 12.5m/20km west of Limassol, are the remains of the ancient city of Kourion, where there are baths (5th Century B.C), fine pavement mosaics, the theater (A.D 50-175) performances of music and drama-ancient dramatists, Shakespearean summer, and a Temple of Apollo, Kolossi Castle.

DAY 9 | RHODES, LINDOS (GREECE) (B.D)
WHOLE DAY TOUR
NIGHT CRUISE TO TURKEY
Shuttle/Coach will pick-up from the pier to visit the Acropolis, with its Temple of Athena. You may also visit the Byzantine Church of Our Lady, built in the 13th century. Continuing up to the Acropolis, we can view the Castle of the Knights, the restored temple of the Lindian Athena, and look out on to St. Paul’s Bay with its tiny chapel.

DAY 10 | KUSADASI, EPHESUS (TURKEY) (B.D)
WHOLE DAY TOUR
Farewell Night Party and Night Cruise to Athens
Shuttle/Coach will pick-up from the pier and drive to Selcuk, and visit the Shrine of Virgin Mary, where she is believed to spent her last days. Proceed to ancient Ephesus and see the Odeon, the Bouleterion, the fountains, the temples, the brothel, the library, the agoras, the great theater, the roman baths, the gymnasiums and so on. After lunch, visit the Archeological Museum and the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, Altar of St. Paul. Drive back to ship at the end of your visits.

DAY 11 | ATHENS & CORINTH (B)
Arrival at Athens, Local Tour & Disembarkation
Shuttle/Coach will pick-up from the pier and visit: a wonderful drive South West of Athens until we reach The Corinth Canal which connects the Aegean Sea with the Ionian Sea (short stop). Then you will visit the Ancient Corinth, (where St. Paul lived and reached for 18 months), and Acro-Corinth. The remains of the city, which include The Agora (market place) and Apollo Temple (6th century B.C) clearly show how rich and important Corinth was in Ancient times. After the tour, disembarkation from the ship up bound to airport.