Beirut Vacations, Beirut Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

This small country, the smallest in the Middle East, has an area of only 10,452 km² but carries a civilization & history of 4,000 years.   Historical Facts:   1)      Lebanon is the modern name of what was called Phoenicia. It is not an Arab country. 2)      Phoenicians built the 1st boat and they were the first to sail ever! They were traders, involved in international trade between the Middle Eastern hinterland, and coun...

I had wanted to visit Lebanon as far back as I could remember.   I recall the images of destruction on television from the '70s and '80s and knew that Lebanon was more than that. I acquired a pass, through work, to anywhere in the Gulf Air network and decided to go to Beirut. My trip started out in Reno, Nevada, where I caught a Southwest 737 to San Diego, with a stop in Las Vegas.  I had worked earlier that day, doing a Flight Attendant check ride from Re...

Its about 4AM and i'm excited as I see early morning Beirut glide past my window below me as the BA Boeing comes in to land. Although I have never been here before, I instantly recognise and name areas of the city by linking them to events and chronicles as recounted by the journalist Robert Fisk through his many reports and books about this front-line city and its tragic gradual destruction. Once out of the airport I walk about 1km to the highway and wave down a classic Merc...

After flying to Syria and spending some time there getting my Iranian visa, checking out different parts of Damascus and smoking lots of hookah, "My that grape is mild!"  I boarded a bus to check out Beirut. The bus I took was not your most modern and after getting shifted around in seats a bit, I finally was shifted to one with very little leg room due to my fellow passenger.  "Thanks for being so considerate buddy....oh well, it isn't that long a trip."  In fact it did ...