Lebanon Travel Blogs - Page 2

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 b…

Middle East Fun!

Lebanon was the best.  It was supposed to be a rainy and cold winter but I lucked out with spring-like weather the whole time.  It was the best Christmas and New Year I've spent in a long time.

First few pictures of my baby Major Mitchel Parrot

365 places to see lebanon

Last Christmas I had the honor of spending a couple weeks in Southern Lebanon with a team as relief workers after last summer's war.

The guy from Apamea, SyriaAt least twice a year, the whole family, plus two Rhodesian ridgebacks, would pile into our first-generation Range Rover �" with Union Jacks plastered all over it, so that we weren’t mistaken for the dreaded secret police, who drove the same vehicle �" and head off i…

Tempranito arriba, pues a las 8 de la mañana nos busca el taxi, así que a DESAYUNAR  !!!!!!!!  Riquísimo de nuevo  J  nos comimos de todo, es lo mas este desayuno, ahora a tomar el taxi  y a viajar !!!!!!!!! PRIMERA PARADA: Es cerquita de Aleppo, en la ciudad de Maarra …

This is just the start of my postcard collection. I put these up quite awhile ago and just now got around to editing them and posting this. I have a lot more cards that need to be scanned and added, but this is definitely becoming one of my favorite hobbies! Thanks to Gooseberry for coming up with this grand idea!

Postcards I have received from around the world... a work in progress because this is my new (and addicting) hobby! I love sending/receiving postcards from my TB friends...and I've even gotten my family into sending me postcards too! :)

Halloween Party 09

it was amazing, a beautiful and charming city dont miss visiting, I had great sea food try the au prince hotel cafe on l'horloge square and try the ice cream with caramelized sugar

Temple at Baalbek Today, we took a shared minibus to Baalbek. This is the site of an ancient Phoenician (later Roman) temple. Without doubt one of the most impressive Roman ruins, with pillars rising some 22m ... makes the Acropolis in Athens look modest. The journey itself was interesting with L…

Cairo, Riyadh, Beirut

Shortly after Christmas, I headed back to Syria, but I wanted to stop by Beirut first. I was originally supposed to meet someone there for the day, but that didn't pan out, so I essentially decided to just take a personal taxi up the country to the Syrian border since you couldn't fly there.The fir…