Galilee-dagtour

We took the Christian Galilee Tour. We departed from Jerusalem (6am) which makes the day long because you stop in Tel Aviv to pick up more people for the bus. Each tour is 12-15 people which is a good size. We switched buses in Tel Aviv and picked up our tour guide, Ozzy. We loved all of the stops: Nazareth, Church of Multiplication, Tiberias, Capernaum, and the River Jordan. To walk where Jesus, Joseph, Mary, the Apostles and the disciples walked and lived was truly amazing. We put our feet in the Sea of Galilee and the River Jordan. It was all well worth it. On the other hand, the first stop was a store in Nazareth. Everyone likes to have a safe environment to shop in. However, the shop was very expensive compared to similar items we could get in Jerusalem. Lunch in Tiberias was $25/pp which was also expensive. The Tilapia (Peter's fish) was good but the meal was not worth $25/pp. The most disappointing aspects was our tour guide. He had his script & he was sticking to it. When questions were asked he made up responses and used the same canned responses over & over. He also rushed us through each site so that by the time we reached the last site, River Jordan, we were 2 hours ahead of schedule! I said something to him about how disappointed I was with the "rush job". The tour guide we had the next day for Jerusalem was fantastic. I left feedback for Tour Israel on my disappointment with the tour guide but it was never addressed. Instead I received a generic response from them telling me how grateful they were for my positive review....yet it was not positive which tells me they did not bother to read it. If you are using Tourist Israel ask who your tour guide will be and avoid Ozzy.

Het was een zeer interessante tour met Nazareth, Kafarnaum, het Meer van Galilea en de rivier de Jordaan. De gids was goed, hij wist veel en hij deelde het met de groep. Het was een lange maar interessante dag. Ik ging eind februari en het weer was zonnig en mooi. Het restaurant waar we stopten voor de lunch was vrij duur, vooral de beer. Maar anders was alles geweldig.

Deze tour was een goede manier om in korte tijd een paar dingen te zien! Onze gids was deskundig en vriendelijk. Er is een vaste plek voor de lunch die misschien duur is voor mensen, maar enkelen in onze groep vroegen om alleen de saladebar (kost minder) of sommigen brachten hun eigen lunch mee en aten buiten. Het Meer van Galilea was gewoon adembenemend!