You walk in your own experience with God anytime. He knows why you are doing this and pray ,cry, meditate and feel his presence there when you are walking and feel the cross too as he carried it for us. I felt Jesus carrying the cross for our mistakes and sins. I felt he took all that from me and set me free. I will start a new life this coming year. He for sure answered my prayers too.I am a complete changed person for this experience has brought this out in me. Everyone needs to experience this once in there lifetime.

hello. It is a definately must do and see and feel whilst in Jerusalem. can be achieved on you or get a guide. just be careful as a lot of guides will try and get a lot of euro dollars or sterling outta you and tend to take little breaks in their family shops where they sell souvenirs etc..... but enjoy the experience

You will be richly blessed by this pilgrimage. But know that the crowds will be enormous and that you will need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves the whole time you are in Jerusalem. Though you are not going with a church group, I strongly advise that you link up with some group once you are there rather than going on your own. You will learn more and feel safer. To walk the Via Dolorosa/Via Crucis, you will want to enter the Via Dolorosa from Beit HaBad Street, NOT from the east. Walk west up to the Church of the Condemnation and Flagellation to begin your journey, but do not continue any further east. Then reverse directions downhill to the west; looking for signs along the way. You should get a printed guide before you go. If you have not found a group with which to walk, there will be groups everywhere once you get there, all doing the same thing. Stay with a group and be sure to dress modestly. You will pass through crowded alleys filled with aggressive vendors. As for worshiping at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, if your intention is to be there for Easter Sunday morning you should be there VERY early for the first mass of the day (6am or 6:30am) and know that even then you almost certainly will be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other worshipers and you may have to wait several hours to get in. This is true just about every Sunday of the year, but Easter will be the most challenging of all. No ticket is required. One more word of strong encouragement: do not just go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre without also visiting the Garden Tomb next to the bus station. You will bless me for this suggestion. I hope that your pilgrimage will include time in Galilee, as you will be moved to tears again and again. Feel free to ask more questions.