Bus excursion from Haifa "Tsfat. Jewish and Druze shrines of Galilee"

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We invite you to a bus tour from Haifa "Tsfat. Jewish and Druze shrines of Galilee".
🔹️May 9, Friday
🥗 Attention! This tour includes breakfast and lunch!
🫒Our day will begin with a visit to the oil press, where we will have breakfast and olive oil tasting.
Then we will head to the city of Tsfat - one of the 4 holy cities of Judaism. There we will take a walking tour of the Old City, during which we will visit the ancient synagogues of the Jewish Quarter. We will visit the ruins of a fortress built during the Crusader period, look into the Saraya building - the city hall in the Ottoman period.
🎨 From the Jewish Quarter, we will move to the Artists' Quarter, where we will visit galleries and admire the works of local artists.
🏡From Safed we will head to the Druze village of Hurfeish. There we will be visiting a local family, where we will be treated to a vegetarian lunch and told about the customs and traditions of the Druze.
In the afternoon, we will visit one of the holiest places of the Druze religion - the Makam Nabi Sabalan complex at the grave of the prophet Sabalan, one of the seven holy prophets revered by the Druze.
☕️ And at the end of the excursion, we will stop at a very interesting place:
A colorful restored house of a former local sheikh.
Here we will be met by religious Druze, treated to coffee and told about the history of the house, about modern life and about the products manufactured: natural cosmetics, herbal teas, spice mixes, homemade jam.
➡️The duration of the excursion is about 10 hours.
ℹ️ Guide Evgeniy Davydov
💰Cost 250 shekels (Breakfast and lunch included)