Narrator: The dirt path starts by the roadside, next to a bus-ridden holy site on the Galilee shore. It winds up a mountain, covered with wild oats and thistles. Each year, thousands of pilgrims make their way up the path to visit an ancient stone church and other sacred sites related to Jesus' life.

Maoz Inon: What's special about this trail is that it gives everyone the possibility to actually follow the steps of Jesus. Two-thousand years ago, Jesus didn't travel on a coach bus. He didn't come by airplane. He walked from village to village, from community to community.

Narrator: The Jesus Trail hopes to encourage thousands of tourists to follow in his footsteps, to hear the songbirds, and to smell the wild dill, as they reflect along the way.

David Landis: I think for Christians, Jesus calls them to follow him and this is one very practical way that you can really follow his example and you can learn that Jesus really was living a simple life, moving between village to village, meeting people, sitting down and having meals with them, experiencing hospitality, and meeting a lot of their needs, as a person who would lead them.

Narrator: The path is meant to be hiked in four days. The trail meanders down to the edge of a cliff on Mt Arbel, for a panoramic view over many of the sites in Jesus' story, including Capernaum, the fishing village that was the center of his life.

Nathaniel Herr: The bigger moments on the trail for me were when you come up on a hill the whole day you're approaching and approaching the hill and at the end you finally get to the top with the new view, like here when we walked up, then at the top we can see all of the Galilee region where almost all of Jesus' life was played out in this area behind me.

Narrator: There's no cost for traveling the Jesus Trail if hikers stay in tents. A local bed and breakfast will cost approximately $100 each night. And tourists don't need to be followers of Christ. The scenery and natural beauty along the trail attract all comers.