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One Month's Tour from Cairo to COnstantinople, via Palestine, Syria and SMyrna

1st day Cairo. Leave by rail for Port Said (five hours), and thence leave by steamer for Jaffa ( twelve hours), the chief seaport of Palestine.
2d day Jaffa. Arrive, and leave by. rail for Jerusalem ( four hours) .
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Jerusalem. Visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Mosque of Omar, the site of $ Calvary, Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, Mount Zion, etc. Drive to Jericho, where the night can be spent. Visit the Jordan, Dead Sea, Bethany, and the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. An excursion can be made to Hebron.
10th day Return by rail from Jerusalem to Jaffa, and take steamer to Haifa.
11th day Haifa. Arrive, and drive to Mount Carmel Monastery.
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Nazareth (six hours' drive from Haifa). Visit the Church of the Annunciation and the Fountain of Mary; walk to top of the hill behind Nazareth (on which is Wali Siman) and enjoy the great view, which embraces nearly the whole of Palestine.
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Tiberias. Drive to Tiberias, passing Cana of Galilee and the Mount of Beatitudes, from which, tradition tells us, Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount. Stop over at Tiberias and take rowboat on lake, visiting Capernaum, Bethsaida, etc.
16th day Gadara. Leave Tiberias by steamer for Semakh, thence drive through the Heiromax Valley to Umra Keis, the ancient Gadara.

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Damascus. Leave Gadara by Brit Ras, the probable site of the Roman Capitolus, for Mezerib, the southern terminus of the rail to Damas- cus, the " Pearl of the East," and the " Paradise " of Arabic writers.
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Baalbek (six hours by train from Damascus), the Baalgad of Joshua, the Heliopolis of the Greeks, once the most magnificent of Syrian cities, famous now only for the extent and splendor of its ruins.
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Beyrout (six hours by train from Baalbek). Visit the Dog River, to see the ancient rock sepulchers.
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Leave Beyrout by steamer for Smyrna. The French Line takes three days only, but the Austrian Lloyd's, via Alcxandretta, takes seven.

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Smyrna, the second city of Turkey, and very interesting. Excursions to the Baths of Diana and Agamemnon, Mount Pagus, the Valley of Saint Anne, Ephesus and Magnesia on the Sipyle.
31st day Constantinople, in twenty-four hours by steamer from Smyrna.

 

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