The town of Bethlehem, 7km south of Jerusalem, is the ancestral town of the royal family of David and is regarded as the birthplace of Jesus. The church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built under the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great, is regarded as one of the few buildings surviving almost wholly intact from early Christian times. It is said that when the Virgin Mary was suckling Jesus here some drops of milk fell to the ground and it turned into white stone. There is a small chapel here. Just south of the Milk Grotto is a small rectangular church said to be on the site of the house in which the Holy Family lived in the period between the Nativity and the flight into Egypt.
Tour ends on arrival in Cairo.
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