Browsing Month September, 2009

Qingdao International Beer Festival was initiated in 1991, and opens in the second weekend of August each year for 16 days, which is the golden tourism season in Qingdao. The slogan is: Qingdao, Toasts with the World! Now, this festival has gradually become a bright city name card of Qingdao, and has well-known reputation and influence in China and the world. What’s more, it doesn’t matter if you miss the festival, you just won’t miss the Qingdao beer selling all over China.

Check the pictures on Iwannagothere.com

Israel Travel Company offers itinerary planning with and without personal tour guiding services.

This can involve suggestions regarding accommodations, activities, sites to visit, special events, places to eat, listing cultural events happening in Israel whilst you are here, etc. We aim to make your time in Israel not just a tour but a memorable travel experience.

Our personal tour guiding service involves a very small and select group of guides, with whom I work very closely and can fully recommend as part of the Israel Travel Company team approach.

We try to match the guide to the nature,style and interests of each travel client or group and in this process we often send a detailed CV of the  available guide or guides we are recommending.

We also specialize in an Israel – Off the Beaten Trackapproach offering walking, bike, horse riding, camel and jeep tours to less known parts of the country as well as integrating such activities into your customized itinerary.

Below are some suggested itinerary options to assist you in your itinerary planning.

Jerusalem Touring Options for 1 to 2 Days

Panoramic view of Jerusalem from Sherover Promenade or from Mt. of Olives, views of city from Jerusalem YMCA tower or from historic neighborhoods of Mishkenot Shanaanim, Yemin Moshe and Moses Montefiore’s Windmill.

Rampart Walk on Old City walls from Jaffa Gate to Western Wall or in direction of Damascus Gate, Lion’s Gate and Kidron Valley.

Visit the City of David – recent excavations, Hezekiah’s water tunnel

Western Wall/Kotel Tunnel tour

Four Quarters of Old City including: highlights of each quarter : Armenian Quarter with its’ Armenian pottery, Armenian Church  and museums,

Jewish Quarter, Synagogues, Museums, Roman/Byzantine main street or  Cardo; the Temple Mount

Churches and institutions of the Christian Quarter including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Bethesda pools ,the Via Dolorosa ,Gethsemane and Mt of Olive churches

Muslim quarter with its busy bazaars and markets, the Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock, El Aqsa Mosque.

Sites in New City:

Yad Vashem, Har Herzl, Israel Museum, Shrine of the Book, Knesset,High Court Building, Chagall Windows, Hadassah Hospital, Italian Synagogue and Museum, Mea Shearim, Russian Compund and Mahane Yehuda Markets.

Jerusalem Region

Other activities in the Jerusalem region include: Archaeological Dig for a Day with Archaeological Seminars, Latrun Tank Museum, Stalactite Caves.

Dead Sea At Dawn or Later…
Client pick up from Jerusalem hotels at 4am. Climb Masada at dawn, with guide explanations, then walk or cable car down. Breakfast at Ein Gedi Kibbutz Guesthouse and tour of the internationally recognized Botanical Garden.
Swimming in the sweet waters of David’s Falls, hike the Ein Gedi National Park or float in the Dead Sea and cover yourselves in mud. Rest and relaxation. This tour can of course start at a more standard hour after you have completed your hotel breakfast in a relaxed and unhurried manner!! (more…)

I have circumnavigated the earth on a shoestring budget without the use of an airplane by traveling through 43 countries via land and sea. By traveling on a freighter ship across the north Pacific, camel-trekking through the Sahara, and riding a horse at full gallop across the wide open Mongolian countryside, I not only learned about the 43 countries I traveled through, but I picked up a few great international backpacking tips. In this post I share 7 of the most useful. read more

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