Tripoli Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Trablous (Tripoli) - great wandering the street souqs (markets). Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles on the top of the hill overlooks the whole city. Originally built as a Crusader fortress in 1103. Imposing entrance with moat and 3 gates; one Ottoman, one Mamluk and one Crusader. During my visit, it was actually in use as a citadel. There were g...

November 24, 2007 Tripoli, Lebanon The bus from Hama to Tripoli cost us 700 SP. We got our Lebanese visas at the border and they were free. We are staying at the Hotel Koura with a very nice room for 60,400 Lebanese Lira. The exchange rate is 1,510 LL to the dollar. Shortly after clearing the border we passed an apartment block which had obvious...

Bsharre . . . it's amazing! My friend Kayte and I met a lady there who told us (over bitter, muddy coffee and a bready thing that she called "kaak") about the town of Bsharre. Its population is about 20,000, though it doesn't look that large because it's all snuggled into the cliffs. There are churches everywhere in Bsharre, which our new friend...

well, have had an interesting few days. was wandering past the place des martyrs the other night, where demonstrations have previously taken place, and realised there was something going on. as the guys i was with had big cameras, they were mistaken for being press, so we were given the full story: monday was mothers day here and tuesday childre...