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Zahle Slideshow
Zahle
Travel Blogs from Zahle, Lebanon
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(5) Back to Beirut
... But perhaps that is only because we are, obviously, foreigners. I am not sure whether the various groups that make up Lebanon’s complex population mix are equally easy-going between each other; certainly, talking to various people there seems to be ...
Baalbek Bound
... on the news in the summer of 2006 about "fighting in the Bekaa Valley". That was when Israel was trying to run the Hezbollah out of Lebanon. We had no idea where it was but now we do because we are here. Baalbek was called the "Sun City" of Rome and a ...
Escape from LA - Lebanon edit
... ). In the gate lounge, an announcement came over the speakers "Emirates will be operating flight EK954 to Beirut, Lebanon this afternoon. However, owing to the general strike in Lebanon, Emirates takes no responsbility for any inconvience experienced ...
Just my luck in Lebanon...
... out on paper, I just need to put them up here. Keep watching, it'll slowly come together!! More importantly, I'm in Lebanon at the moment, which has a bit of an interesting security situation going on. I arrived into the country to a national ...
Lingering and Lounging - concern on the side
... is rejected by Hezbollah. May 9 - Opposition forces seize control of west Beirut. May 10 - Fouad Siniora, Lebanon's prime minister, declares that the government will never declare war on Hezbollah but says the Shia group is trying ...
The Hezbollah people were nice to me.
... I could buy a CD. I then was introduced to two more men from Hezbolla and they shook my hand saying, "welcome to Lebanon!" Yes, the Hezbollah area was very poor and rundown but the people that I met were very kind and made me feel ...
Zahle - Food Capital of Lebanon
(Jim) Once we'd checked out the ruins we grabbed another service taxi down to Zahle, the capital of Lebanon's wine growing district. Zahle is also known as the food capital so we were expecting a very pleasant stay! Once again L'Hote Libanais provided our ...
Oyoun
Friday 15/8 Dad prepared a lunch for us in Aoun today. We picked up some wine and drove up the mountain to Baskinta and then to Aoun. I've posted pictures of the food. Addie asked Dad for a Lebanese lunch, and it is exactly what we got. We had ...
Essence of Ashrafieh
Tuesday night .12/8 went to get paint supplies and look at fabrics for aoun in burj hammoud. Had some sandwiches at a whole in the wall restaurant. Lost the house key. Met with domi and slept ...
VIP Status
... and wine... I was by the end of the night... shit faced. I never thought I would relive LA 2007.... but here we are in Lebanon, and what a horrible feeling it was!! Toooo much alcohol. I was put in a room to rest while the others continued on. After about ...
Edde Sands
... a DJ playing each Sunday starting at 4:30 pm. It is advertised all over Mix FM that this is the best pool beach party in all of lebanon with all the coolest people. We left at 5:00 pm for Chris to pick us up as we are heading back to Aoun in the evening. ...
Zahle Nice City
... ; ,, and drink some coffee in the balcony which have a view to bluedan town .. then we drove the car to the syrian - lebanon port AlMsna'a , which was an uncrowded port .. we drove in a nice farm road to Chtaura - Zahle Zahle ...
Good food and wine
We started out the day traveling to Zahle, a popular place in the Bekaa valley to go out to eat. For lunch we had shish kabobs, hummus, babaganoush, pomme frites and home-made moutain pita bread. We then headed to Caves de Ksara, a winery nearby. The ...
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