Travelers have to book their itineraries provided by local travel agencies during the sukkot or other public holidays. Of course, I could not be exempt, so I booked one day tour around Tel Aviv for my second day in Israel.

The driver picked me up near my hotel and collected other people from different hotels, where they stayed. Totally, eleven people participated in my booked day tour.

The first stop was Caesarea ancient city, which is a town in north-central Israel located at midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa on the coastal plain. The town was built by Herod the Great about 25-13 BCE as the port city Caesarea Maritima served as an administrative center of Judaea Province of the Roman Empire.

The most impressive is the Amphitheater could hold 4000 maximum people in one time, but each audience can hear clearly without speakers or any other electronic facilities till now.

We planned to visit Akko ancient city, but the driver told us it was congested with traffic everywhere in the city because of the sukkot holidays and music festival, so we decided to alter our schedule to move to Megiddo ancient city.

Archeologists discovered the first Bible was created and the first church was built by in Magiddo, so it is the name of a biblical city. 

Megiddo was a site of great important in the ancient world. It guarded the western branch of a narrow pass on the most important trade route of the ancient Fertile Cresent, linking Egypt with Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and known today as Via Maris. 

Because of its strategic location, Megiddo was the site of several historical battles. The site was inhabited from appoximately 7000 BCE to 586 BCE though the first significant remains date to the Chalcolithic period (4500-3500 BCE).

What a amazing to go down to see the exquisite water system over 2000 years ago! Actually, the cold spring in the hill was been found by chance as the life water for soliders, who lived in the fortress to protect these areas.

Drove to the north and reached Rosh HaNikra, which is a geologic formation on the border between Israel and Lebanon, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Western Galilee. It is a white chalk cliff face which opens up into spectacular grottos.

Descend into underwater grottoes to discover the spectacular natural wonders.

The Rosh HaNikra grottoes are cavernous tunnels formed by sea action on the soft chalk rock. The total length is some 200 meters. They branch off in various directions with some interconnecting segments. 

A tunnel was built by the British for the Haifa-Beirut railroad line, and in 1968 a second one was dug, both connecting the grottoes with each other and allowing access along the former route of the British railroad.

We stopped for a while at the summit to overlook Haifa ancient city, which is the third-largest city in Israel, when we drove back to Tel Aviv.

Haifa is home to the Bahai World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Bahai pilgrims, which was built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3000 years.

It was dark when I returned to Tel Aviv and the hotel staff told me there was no any public bus heading for Jerusalem because of Sukkot holidays, but I could go to bus station to take the private bus for Jeruselem.

I decided to go to bus station for a try. Fortunately, I found one public bus to Jeruselum at 9:00 pm and I reached Jeruselem one hour later. What's more, it was free charge of the bus.

To be continued...