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Amazing Lebanon – 5D/4N

Posted on May 8, 2019February 7, 2020 by citylog

Day 1: Arrival Beirut International Airport
Meet, greet & assist – Transfer to hotel.

Day 2: The Bekaa Valley province (East)

9:00am pickup from your hotel. A smooth drive to the Bekaa Valley (East) to visit the Majestic Baalbak Roman temples then to the town of Anjar where the Umayyad vestiges lies in harmony with the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Time to have some wines at the famous Chateau Ksara or similar, one of the premium producers of fine Lebanese wines? Back to your hotel around 17:30 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 3: The Capital Beirut

9:00am pickup from your hotel
The Beirut Heritage Trail: Walk around the streets of the Cosmopolitan capital Beirut down town, to visit the National Museum, the fancy water front, the Beirut Souks, the great Mosque, St. Georges Cathedral and the Pigeon rocks while driving through the French Corniche! Back to your hotel around 16:00 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 4: Mount Lebanon (Central)

9:00am pickup from your hotel
Let us visit today the Jeita grottos a lively wonder of nature, then by cable car to the Harissa hill sanctuary of our Lady of Lebanon overlooking the unique Jounieh bay. Then we drive along the coast to Byblos city the oldest inhabited Mediterranean coastal city and the cradle of Phoenician alphabet. City walking tour and many stops at different attractions. Back to your hotel around 17:30 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 5: Departure
Check out from your hotel and transfer to Beirut International Airport for departure.

PS:

Possibility to customize package upon request.
Optional lunch during the tours
The Bekaa Valley wine and Gastronomy may be an optional day tour
English/French/Arabic guided tours
Modern vehicle

Find Your Lebanese Roots – 8D/7N

Posted on May 8, 2019June 8, 2019 by citylog

‘My family migrated from Lebanon long time ago…’

‘My family roots were lost in time and I never had the chance to visit my home village in Lebanon!’

We always hear these words amongst the Lebanese Diaspora!

WE ARE HERE TO FIND YOUR ROOTS!

in 8 days/7 nights

Day 1: Arrival Beirut International Airport
Meet & assist, transfer to hotel.

Day 2: Start searching

We will revise your available documents and chase tracks of your ancestors while we will set meetings with your home city/town/village locals siblings and Mayor.

Day 3: Have some fun and get to know more about The Capital of Lebanon

9:00am pickup from your hotel
The Beirut Heritage Trail: Walk around the streets of the Cosmopolitan capital Beirut down town, to visit the National Museum, the fancy water front, and Beirut souks, the great Mosque, St. Georges Cathedral and the Pigeon rocks while driving through the French Corniche! Back to your hotel around 16:00 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 4: Visit your hometown

Meet the mayor, and elderly people of your hometown, locate your street, house, neighborhood Church/Mosque and make conversations with the locals. Take photos and spend the day the way your grandparents did!

Day 5: Mount Lebanon (Central)

9:00am pickup from your hotel
Let us visit today the Jeita grottos a lively wonder of nature, then by cable car to the Harissa hill sanctuary of our Lady of Lebanon overlooking the unique Jounieh bay. Then we drive along the coast to Byblos city the oldest inhabited Mediterranean coastal city and the cradle of Phoenician alphabet. City walking tour and many stops at different attractions. Back to your hotel around 17:30 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 6: Free at leisure

Free at leisure in the city or in your home town/village

Day 7: The Bekaa Valley province (East)
9:00am pickup from your hotel. A smooth drive to the Bekaa Valley (East) to visit the Majestic Baalbak Roman temples then to the town of Anjar where the Umayyad vestiges lies in harmony with the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Time to have some wines at the famous Chateau Ksara or similar, one of the premium producers of fine Lebanese wines? Back to your hotel around 17:30 – Lunch & dinner are optional

Day 8: Check out for Departure

Transfer to Beirut International Airport for departure with lots to tell your family and friends.

PS: Possibility to customize package upon request.

Discover Lebanon – 9D/8N

Posted on May 8, 2019February 7, 2020 by citylog

9 days, 8 nights

Day 1: Arrival Beirut International Airport

Meet & assist, transfer to hotel.

Day 2: Sidon & Tyre

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Visit Sidon sea castle – Visit Tyre Roman temples

Return around 17:30

Day 3: Beiteddine & Shouf

Pickup from your hotel at 10:00am
Vist Beiteddine castle – Mussa castle – Deir el Qamar old village

Return around 17:30

Day 4: Baalbeck & Ksara

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Visit Baalbek roman temple, Anjar Ruins and Ksara winery

Return around 17:30

Day 5: Cedars & Kozhaya
Visit the Kozhaya sacred valley – Cedars of Lebanon – Jebran Khalil Jebran Museum.

Return around 17:30

Day 6: Tripoli & Batroun

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Visit Byblos castle and City tour – Visit Tripoli castle and city tour.

Return around 17:30

Day 7: Jeita – Harissa – Byblos

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Visit the Jeita grottos, Harrisa by cable car and Byblos city.

Return around 17:30

Day 8: Fun Day shopping

Pickup from your hotel at 11:00am
Beirut city tour and National museum – Water front, the souks…
Optional: Casino du Liban at night.

Day 9: Departure
Transfer to Beirut International Airport

PS:

Possibility to customize package upon request.
Optional lunch during the tours
The Bekaa Valley wine and Gastronomy may be an optional day tour
English/French/Arabic guided tours
Modern vehicle

Lebanon Charming Package – 7D/6N

Posted on May 7, 2019February 7, 2020 by citylog

7 days, 6 nights

Day 1: Arrival Beirut International Airport
Meet & assist, transfer to hotel. Overnight

Day 2: Beirut City & Deir El Qamar

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Beirut-Deir el Qamar-Beiteddine

Return around 17:00

Day 3: Baalbeck, Ksara & Anjar

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Baalbeck – Anjar – Ksara or similar winery

Return around 17:00

Day 4: Sidon & Tyr

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Saida sea Castle- Tyr old port & Roman hippodrome.

Return around 17:00

Day 5: Jeitta Grotto, Harissa & Byblos

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Jeitta Grotto-Harissa-Byblos

Return around 17:00

Day 6: Tripoli & the Cedars

Pickup from your hotel at 9:00am
Kadisha Valley-Gebran Museum-The Cedars

Return around 17:00

Day 7: Departure
Transfer to Beirut International Airport

PS:

Possibility to customize package upon request.
Optional lunch during the tours
The Bekaa Valley wine and Gastronomy may be an optional day tour
English/French/Arabic guided tours
Modern vehicle

Lebanon The Land of Saints 8D/7N

Posted on May 7, 2019June 8, 2019 by citylog

Day 1: Arrival Beirut International Airport
Meet & assist, transfer to hotel

Day 2: The Valley of Saints

The Qadisha valley is scattered with cave chapels, hermitages and monasteries cut from rock. *Monastery of Qannoubin UNESCO world Heritage Site.

*Monastery of St. Elyse.

Day 3: St Mary Nouriye-Saint Hardini & Saint Rafqa.
*The monastery of St.Mary and the sculpted church, built in 12th century.
*Blessed Father Hardini, monastery of Mar Youssef Al Dahr at Jrebta.
*Sister Rafqa monastery.

Day 4: St Charbel Annaya-Bkerke-Harissa
*Monastery of Mar Maroun at Annaya of Saint Charbel.
*St Mary Harissa

*Bkerke, residence of the Maronite Patriarch.

Day 5: The Holy South – Qana (‘the Miracle of Wine’)-Tyre
*Qana, stone jars described in the Gospel

*Tyre, the first city that had its own church

*Magdoucheh, the sanctuary of Sayedet el Mantara.

Day 6: Beirut down town Cathedrals

*St. Georges of the Maronite

*St. Georges of the Greek Orthodox

*St Elias of the Greek Melkite Catholics

* Down town Beirut, the souks and the water front.

Day 7: Baalbak & Deir el Ahmar

*Baalbak is a must see Roman temples
*Deir el Ahmar is the miraculous shrine of Virgin Mary

Day 8: Departure
Transfer to Beirut Airport

PS: Possibility to customize package upon request.

Lebanon Wine & Gastronomy 4D/3N

Posted on May 6, 2019June 8, 2019 by citylog

Day 1: Arrival & Transfer to hotel – A welcome glass of wine from local selections – Dinner in Local Mezze Restaurant.

Day 2: Start at 9:00am from your hotel to the Batroun district in North of Lebanon for an abundant wine tasting in many different local wineries – Lunch in local special seafood Lebanese restaurant with local wines– return around 17:30

Day 3: Start from your hotel to the Bekaa valley district east of Lebanon, visit 3 local fine wineries with abundant wine tasting and Lunch in one of the prestigious Zahle Berdwani restaurants, an amazing Lebanese Mezze will be served with abundant local wines.

Day 4: Have an authentic Lebanese breakfast and a local refreshing wine before you travel.

Lebanon Sea, Sun & Sports – 8D/7N

Posted on May 6, 2019February 7, 2020 by citylog

8 days 7 nights

Day 1 arrival Beirut Intenational Airport
Meet & assist, transfer to hotel.

Day 2: SSS
Lay down in the Mediterranean sun in a wonderful golden sandy beach with luxury facilities and quiet accommodation.

Day 3: SSS
Summer sports facilities – Swimming pools at the beach– Bars & clubs.

Day 4: Have a break.
Had enough of the burning summer sun? Let’s visit Jeita grottos and discover Beirut city.

Day 5: SSS.
All summer sports facilities – Swimming pools at the beach– Bars & clubs.

Day 6: Baalbek & the wineries
45 minutes to the mountain fresh breeze and drive down to the breathtaking Bekaa valley to visit the Roman temples of Baalbek & Wine tasting at Ksara wineries.

Day7: SS&P
Lay down in the Mediterranean sun in a wonderful golden sandy beach with luxury facilities
Party at night (Beirut Pub Hoping) or visit the Casino du Liban for a world standard gambling.

Day 8: Departure
Transfer to airport for departure.

PS:

Possibility to customize package upon request.
Optional lunch during the tours
The Bekaa Valley wine and Gastronomy may be an optional day tour
English/French/Arabic guided tours
Modern vehicle

‘Tripoli & Batroun’ One Day Tour

Posted on May 5, 2019March 19, 2021 by citylog

Tour start at 09:00 from your hotel and back around 17:00
Tripoli is the second largest city in Lebanon, it is located 90 Km north of Beirut. The Beautiful city combines the ancient and the modern. As we drive the highway to the north, we reach the modern side of the city, a sports stadium at the entrance and many buildings facing the nice blue Mediterranean shore. Our objective is the old souks in the heart of the city. Small shops of all kind such as craftsmen, traditional pastries, fishermen, dressmakers, carpenters, painters and a number of artificial artistries gathering in a 500 years old open air market trying to sell their products… amazing approaches!
Uptown is the Crusades fortress overlooking the “Tri Polis” the three cities. All civilizations and armies seized this strategic spot to control the city and its surroundings… History to be told… time for some traditional sweets and a cup of coffee!
The sweets palace 10 minutes from our last stop dates back to 1860 when a family of talented chefs decided to start a big sweet factory in the city. Local sweets are famous in Tripoli. Maybe the best oriental sweets you ever tried? It is not only Baklava but a wide variety of tastes and pastry arts displayed in front of you for your savor and your personal palate… the Chef is there and happy to explain about every single flavor.
Now that we explored Tripoli, let’s go to Batroun or Byblos!
An average ride to this small lovely Phoenician city; The tourists street is such a lovely place to buy your souvenirs , drop by a bar and then check the old Phoenician port … What a wonderful day!

‘Beirut Historical Walking Tour’ Half Day Tour

Posted on May 1, 2019March 28, 2023 by citylog

Half day guided tour , starting time upon request between 09:00 and 17:00

Beirut, what a city of diversities and contradictions!

Destroyed and rebuilt 7 times in history, basically natural disasters were the cause, but hey! We had a civil war from 1975 till 1990!

So we drive in the morning to the museum located in the heart of the east side of Beirut. The National Museum was built in the forties, destroyed in the seventies, rose again in the nineties. But what did we do to protect our valuable discoveries? Let’s get some answers and visit this wonderful museum for much more…

Down Town Beirut; this area was badly shattered during the civil war in the seventies. Wonderfully restored in the nineties… The parliament house, the government palace, the Roman “hammams” , the Martyr’s square, Beirut largest Mosque, and the renovated souks are all in a walking distance… we will end our nice moderate walk in the streets of DT by checking what is going on at the fancy water front, Zeitunay bay more precisely… Restaurant, cafes, bars are all standing there for you… Lunch break!

We proceed then by car to the Raouche area to discover the symbol of the city; “The Pigeon Rocks”. Followed by a street walk in High street Hamra and then by car back to your hotel.