Bethlehem Travel

Bethlehem, which means ‘House of Bread’ in Hebrew, is the birthplace of Jesus Christ and King David. As pilgrims descend on Bethlehem this Christmas, they have the option of staying in restored centuries-old guesthouses, taking food tours of local markets, and perusing the dystopian art in and around a hotel designed by the British graffiti artist Banksy.
I didn’t in fact make it to Bethlehem for Christmas Eve, I got there a couple of days after Christmas, but it was still one of the most magical days of the Elijah Israel year for me. I don’t consider myself religious in the least, but the feeling of being at the very cradle of Western civilization was just incredible.

This year, Banksy encouraged even more people to come by opening the Walled Off Hotel right next to the border, where guests can stay the night in an art-filled hotel bragging the worst view in the world.” Next door a graffiti shop charges guests to add their mark by supplying stencils and paint.
Through having direct contact and solid connections with the local churches, organisations, charities and travel suppliers, they can offer a professional service and expertise in organising pilgrimages for individual travelers and a tailor made service for groups from Great Britain and Ireland.

With his wife about nine months pregnant, Joseph has to leave Natzeret and travel six days to Bethlehem, arriving about Monday, September 23rd, 3 BC. Since the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) was approaching, many men of the David line had traveled to Bethlehem, and secured rooms for their wives at inns while the men would build a sukkah (mistranslated as “manger”) to eat and live in for the eight days of the feast.
11:00 a.m. – The lathes at Giacaman’s factory on Milk Grotto Street near the Nativity church will be humming as skilled workers carve Christmas and other Biblical scenes from the rich wood of gnarled old olive trees that are collected from all over the West Bank.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters Life!) – The birthplace of Jesus is hardly an easy weekend getaway” spot, but for a taste of how today’s Holy Land feels, this hospitable Palestinian town draped over the steep hilltops outside Jerusalem is an essential place to visit.

The Church of Nativity is visited by thousands of believers each year, making it one of the foremost destinations for tours to the Holy Land The Church of Nativity encapsulates in it two cathedrals, both run by the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic denominations in conjunction with one another.
The first thing that will catch your attention is the fortress-like appearance of the church, not dissimilar to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – the Church of the Nativity is one of the most ancient in the world, having first been established by Constantine’s mother Helena in 339 AD. However, it was destroyed and rebuilt several times throughout the centuries.