Jeitta Grotto and Byblos
After wandering around Beirut my first day, next on the agenda was a number of day trips around the country. Luckily Lebanon is a tiny country, so I got to stay at my hotel for 7 days. This means that everything somehow comes out of my pack and gets strewn all over the room within hours and by the 7th day I'm wondering how to get everything back in.
Ruby and I decided to hit up Byblos, a city about an hour north of Beirut, and stop at Jeitta Grotto along the way. Jeitta was maybe one of the more enjoyable things I've seen in the middle east, simply because it's a lot different than anything I've seen here. I've had my fill of castles, ruins, and souqs, but Jeitta is a cave with heaps of beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. It was nice to see something nature oriented, rather than another citadel. Would highly recommend, although for some reason I got a huge bruise on my thigh climbing out of the toy train that takes you from the upper cave to the lower cave, which could have easily been walked within 2 minutes.
Byblos I have less nice things to say about--it's not that it isn't nice, but there was nothing here that I found to be terribly interesting...even the citadel was sort of a let down. Because of this I decided to not bother with the other cities in the south...i figure I've seen enough middle eastern cities to know what a souq should look like.
Ruby and I decided to hit up Byblos, a city about an hour north of Beirut, and stop at Jeitta Grotto along the way. Jeitta was maybe one of the more enjoyable things I've seen in the middle east, simply because it's a lot different than anything I've seen here. I've had my fill of castles, ruins, and souqs, but Jeitta is a cave with heaps of beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. It was nice to see something nature oriented, rather than another citadel. Would highly recommend, although for some reason I got a huge bruise on my thigh climbing out of the toy train that takes you from the upper cave to the lower cave, which could have easily been walked within 2 minutes.
Byblos I have less nice things to say about--it's not that it isn't nice, but there was nothing here that I found to be terribly interesting...even the citadel was sort of a let down. Because of this I decided to not bother with the other cities in the south...i figure I've seen enough middle eastern cities to know what a souq should look like.
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