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I hope I look this good at 2000 years old...
As the traffic in Beirut is generally really bad, we needed to be up and out by 9am. Baalbek is about a 2 hour drive from the house.
The roads were **** - there were massive pot holes and no lane markings - but the drivers were even worse. We made it to Baalbek in one piece with no real issues, I think Gary only had road rage about 6 or 7 times so it was a good start to the day.
We didn't really have brekky so we stopped off at a ...
(4) The Mountains and The Valley
Mount Lebanon is the mountain range that divides Lebanon in an overcrowded Western coastal strip and an empty, Eastern fertile valley. But Western and Eastern does not only refer to the geographical sides of the mountain, it also defines a cultural split. The coastal strip is modern, comparatively rich, and remarkably un-Arab, for want of better description. Across the mountains the Bekaa Valley, and especially the northern part of ...
Hezbollah & Ruins
Our final stop in Lebanon was Baalbek, the base for Hezbollah – the anti-Israel fighting group. We had a ****** time getting there.. a whole day affair and we kept getting ripped off by bus drivers which is obviously overly frustrating. I was tired and fed up and had a little cry in the back of the bus and a soldier noticed and he ended up paying our bus fare and then driving us into the city. ...
Day 5 - Cradle of Civilisation
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South of the church is a hillside of caverns and holes which are said to have been inhabited by prehistoric age. This place screams serene and sanctuary and can clearly feel a bit cut off from the busy real world we call our lives. I personally, found it quite a restful and peaceful place to roam around.
We entered the Greek Catholic Monastery of St. ...
Umayyad Dynasty
Leaving Ballbek, I drove to Aanjar. Aanjar was the commercial center of the Umayyads, an Islamic dynasty which ruled the 8th century AD and captained the great Arab and Islamic conquests which spread from the Middle East all the way to southern France.
Not too much to tell really as it's quite isolated in the countryside, but the fragile arches and columns of this place are surrounded massive mountains ...
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