Excursions & Sightseeings

            Full Day Excursions / 8 hours

GHT 07: Free Day / Car with Driver at Disposal

On this day, client/s will have a car and a driver at their disposal for a maximum of 8 hours. Any needed entrance fees to be paid directly on spot by client/s.

GHT 08: Beirut City Tour – Jeita Grotto – Harissa

Drive along Beirut City seashore to the picturesque Pigeons rock; continue to Hamra commercial area and then visit the

National museum or the Grand Serail. Last stop will be at the "Martyrs Square" to discover the beautiful old Beirut City Center with its newly discovered large archeological excavations and recently renovated buildings with beautiful architecture, Churches and Mosques. Continue north on the slopes of Mount Lebanon to Jeita Grotto, one of Lebanon's most unusual tourist attractions, an enormous cavern festooned with every shape and size of stalactite and stalagmite. The tour ends in the village of Harissa, where you will visit the "Lady of Lebanon" Cathedral and enjoy the superb view of the Mediterranean with Beirut’s and Jounieh’s Bays.

GHT 09: Beirut City Tour – Deir El-Qamar & Beit ed-Din Palace

Drive along Beirut City seashore to the picturesque Pigeons rock; continue to Hamra commercial area and then visit the National museum or the Grand Serail. Last stop will be at the "Martyrs Square" to discover the beautiful old Beirut City Center with its newly discovered large archeological excavations and recently renovated buildings with beautiful architecture, Churches and Mosques. Afterwards; drive south of Beirut to Deir El Qamar, the former capital of Mount Lebanon which still retains in its pretty town square several palaces and the famous Marie Baz Museum, Notre Dame church and Fakhr ed-Dine Mosque dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. Proceed to Beit ed-Dine to visit the magnificent Palace of Emir Bechir known for its masterpiece of the oriental architecture, which became now a days the summer residence of the President of the Republic of Lebanon.

GHT 10: Jeita Grotto – Harissa – Byblos

Drive north on the slopes of Mount Lebanon to Jeita Grotto, one of Lebanon's most unusual tourist attractions, an enormous cavern festooned with every shape and size of stalactite and stalagmite. Continue the journey to the village of Harissa, where you will visit the "Lady of Lebanon" Cathedral and enjoy the superb view of the Mediterranean with Beirut’s and Jounieh’s Bays. The tour ends in Byblos (Jbeil) the Phoenician city known to being the oldest continually inhabited town, where you will visit the Crusaders' castle, the Phoenician temples and the Roman theatre, the Royal Necropolis and enjoy a lovely promenade on the coast next to the port.

GHT 11: Byblos – Tripoli – Cedars

Drive north of Beirut along the coast towards Byblos (Jbeil), the Phoenician city known to being the oldest continually inhabited town, where you will visit the Crusaders' castle, the Phoenician temples and the Roman theatre, the Royal Necropolis and enjoy a lovely promenade on the coast next to the port. Continue the tour towards the second largest city of Lebanon Tripoli, a modern city known to have preserved jealously its medieval old religious edifices and public buildings. In the old town you can see the Crusader Castle of Raymond de St. Gilles, Mosques from Mameluks period, Koranic schools, oriental Bazaars & Souks and the Turkish bath named “Hamman Izzeddine”. End the tour in the Cedars; known for its beautiful pine trees forest from biblical times lying at an altitude of 1600 to 2000 meters above the sea level. The Cedars area is also known for its winter skiing resort. The road to the Cedars passes through the magnificent Qadisha Valley, the picturesque villages of Zghorta and Ehden leading you to Bcherri the hometown of the famous international poet Gebran Khalil Gubran of Lebanese origin. Visit the little museum.

GHT 12: Beit Ed-Din – Deir El-Qamar – Barouk Cedars Reserve

Drive south of Beirut to Deir El Qamar, the former capital of Mount Lebanon which still retains in its pretty town square several palaces and the famous Marie Baz Museum, Notre Dame church and Fakhr ed-Dine mosque dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. Proceed to Beit ed-Dine to visit the magnificent Palace of Emir Bechir known for its masterpiece of the oriental architecture, which became now a days the summer residence of the President of the Republic of Lebanon. Barouk is a pleasant summer town with abundant springs. The Cedars of Barouk, reached from either Moukhtara or Barouk village, are smaller and younger than those of Bsharreh, but extremely beautiful and well cared for. Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve represents around 550 km² of Lebanese territory. Oak, pine and juniper are some of the 16 types of trees that also grow in the reserve. Above the grove at the summit of the mountain there is a panoramic view overlooking the Beqaa valley.

GHT 13: Sidon – Tyre – Echmoun Temple

Drive South of Beirut along the coast to Sidon (Saida). The visits start with the “Castle of the Sea” a crusader’s castle of the 13th century then proceed to Khan El-Franj, a typical Caravan Serail. Stop for a typical Lebanese lunch. After Lunch, continue further down the southern coast to Tyre (Sour) to visit the Necropolis excavations, the Monumental Arch and the spectacular hippodrome, the second largest and best preserved of the Roman era. Two kilometers ahead, visit of the imperial city excavation which offers a majestic avenue toward the sea giving access to the residential area with its remarkable designed public monuments. On the way back to Beirut, visit Echmoun, a garden known as Bustan El-Sheikh where trees blossom around its temples.

GHT 14: Baalbeck & Anjar

Early departure to Baalbeck, on the way you will notice the magnificent Bekaa plain. Once in Baalbeck, you will see the most colossal monuments ever to be found from the Romans period, the Temple of Jupiter with its sumptuous columns, the richly decorated Temple of Bacchus and the original pentagonal Temple of Venus. Lunch, and then continue the tour to Anjar, the unique fortified city in Lebanon built as early as the 8th century by the Umayyad Caliph of Damascus. It is known to be “The Palace of the desert”.

GHT 15: Qadisha Valley & the Ceders

Qadisha, one of the deepest and most beautiful valleys in Lebanon, is indeed a world a part. At the bottom of this wild steep-sided gorge runs the Qadisha River whose source is in the Qadisha Grotto at the foot of the Cedars. And above the famous Cedar grove stands Qurnet es-Sawda, Lebanon's highest peak. Continue the tour towards the Cedars, known for its beautiful pine trees forest from biblical times lying at an altitude of 1600 to 2000 meters above the sea level. The Cedars area is also known for its winter skiing resort.

*Weekly holiday for the following sites is Monday: Beirut National Museum, Jeita Grotto (20 km north of Beirut), Beit ed-Dine, Gebran
Museum (in Bcherri) and Harissa cable cars.