conventional tourism in Lebanon
One very strong lesson I am learning from my first couple of months of nomadism is that I must slow down! My last post here was in Bulgaria, since which time I have taken an overnight bus to Istanbul, a flight from there to Beirut, and spent nearly two busy weeks seeing the Lebanon - with no time to write up my adventures in here. Even now, a part of me wants to be out on the streets of the fascinating city of Beirut, but I know I have to record some of my adventures in here before I depart tomorrow night to Ethiopia!! I shall start here with the more 'conventional' side of a visit to Lebanon, being the amazing remnants of the country's rich and varied history. My head is still spinning from the stories of Phoenicians, Romans, Crusaders, Umayyads, Ottomans, Mamluks... & it's not just stories, but the visible remains of those different epochs, including the ruins at Baalbek of which the temple of Bacchus, above, is only one part. A UNESCO World Heritage ...