The one trip we run · 7 days / 7 nights
The PalestineExperience.
Seven days from Jerusalem to the South Hebron Hills and back — led by Palestinian guides, slept in family homes, eaten at family tables. This is the route we take to show you the country as it is.
JerusalemBethlehemNablusRamallahHebronBeit UmmarSouth Hebron Hills
Monday to Monday
Seven days, one thread.
The trip runs on real weekdays because the country does: markets, checkpoints, Friday in the village, Sunday in the hills. Here is where the thread goes.
Day 1 · Monday
Jerusalem
The Old City, then the ring around it
We start with a briefing, then walk the Old City — the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the settler homes wedged into the Muslim Quarter. In the afternoon we drive the ring: Pisgat Ze'ev, Har Homa, Beit Hanina, Anata — the Separation Barrier and the segregated roads that shape daily life. In the evening we go down to Beit Sahour to meet the family hosting you.
Day 2 · Tuesday
Bethlehem
A city inside a wall
A local guide walks you through Bethlehem: the Separation Wall that wraps the city and the Banksy pieces on it, Aida refugee camp with someone from its youth centre, and the Walled Off Hotel's museum and gallery. Then Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity, and out to Mar Saba, hanging over the Judean desert. The evening is yours — Bethlehem after dark.
Tea first. Questions after. Day 3 · Wednesday
Nablus
Up the spine of the West Bank
An early run north on Route 60. On Mount Gerizim we visit a Samaritan village; in the city, Balata refugee camp, then the Ottoman old city — the Turkish baths, an olive-oil soap factory, and Jacob's Well, dug deep into the rock.
Day 4 · Thursday
Ramallah & Hebron
Two cities, one day
Through the Judean desert, past the settlements that watch the road. We enter Ramallah through the Kufr Aqab checkpoint, stop at Arafat's tomb, and walk the city's streets. Then Hebron: the Tomb of Abraham, an old city where settlers and Palestinians live meters apart, and a glass-blowing workshop that has outlasted all of it.
Day 5 · Friday
Beit Ummar
The village takes you in
South past Bethlehem to the village of Beit Ummar. Mousa and his family open the home where you'll sleep the next three nights. In the afternoon we walk the village with local families and hear, on the land itself, what confiscation looks like up close.
Olive season in the south. Day 6 · Saturday
Beit Ummar
Farmers, fields, and quiet resistance
Mornings in the fields and homes around the village. You'll meet the Palestine Solidarity Project and learn how non-violent resistance works here — accompanying farmers to their land, replanting uprooted trees, standing against home demolitions — and visit the women's embroidery cooperative.
Day 7 · Sunday
South Hebron Hills
The people who stay
With Mousa into the South Hebron Hills, past the settlement of Kiryat Arba, to villages holding on under pressure — families living in shacks, tents, and caves on land they refuse to leave. It is the hardest day, and the one people talk about longest.
Monday, again
Back to Jerusalem
After breakfast we head back the way we came, by bus or arranged car. The thread ends where it began — you don't.
The practical part
- Departure
- Mondays at 9:00, from the Jerusalem Hotel Cafe, Jerusalem.
- Length
- Seven days and seven nights. You're back in Jerusalem the following Monday morning, by bus or arranged car.
- Where you sleep
- With a host family in Beit Sahour, then in the family home of your hosts in Beit Ummar.
- Who leads it
- Palestinian guides, drivers, and hosts, start to finish.
- Around the table
- Home-cooked food with the people who host you.
- Dates & price
- Set with each group. Ask us and we'll walk you through everything.
The next step is a conversation
Come sit with us first.
Tell us who you are and what's pulling you here. We'll answer honestly — about safety, logistics, entry, dates, and whether this trip is right for you.