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Private Beiteddine, Barouk Cedars & Deir el Qamar | Chouf Tour
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Beirut
À propos
The Chouf Mountains hold three of Lebanon's most rewarding experiences within a single mountain range — and this private full-day tour from Beirut brings them all together in one beautifully paced day. A 19th-century palace of extraordinary grandeur. An ancient cedar forest within Lebanon's largest UNESCO-recognised biosphere reserve. And the perfectly preserved Ottoman village that was once Lebanon's first capital. Begin at Beiteddine Palace — one of the finest palaces in the Arab world, built by Emir Bashir II with grand courtyards, carved cedar ceilings, and an underground Byzantine mosaic museum. Continue to the Barouk Cedar Forest — ancient cedar trees walked through at your own pace in...
Points forts
8 heures
Proposé en Arabe (العربية) & Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
8 heures
Proposé en Arabe (العربية) & Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Private transportation
Chef de groupe
Prise en charge et retour à l'hôtel
Air-conditioned vehicle
Déjeuner
Gratuities
Informations importantes
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Private Beiteddine, Barouk Cedars & Deir el Qamar | Chouf Tour
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Beirut
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À propos
The Chouf Mountains hold three of Lebanon's most rewarding experiences within a single mountain range — and this private full-day tour from Beirut brings them all together in one beautifully paced day. A 19th-century palace of extraordinary grandeur. An ancient cedar forest within Lebanon's largest UNESCO-recognised biosphere reserve. And the perfectly preserved Ottoman village that was once Lebanon's first capital. Begin at Beiteddine Palace — one of the finest palaces in the Arab world, built by Emir Bashir II with grand courtyards, carved cedar ceilings, and an underground Byzantine mosaic museum. Continue to the Barouk Cedar Forest — ancient cedar trees walked through at your own pace in...
Points forts
8 heures
Proposé en Arabe (العربية) & Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
8 heures
Proposé en Arabe (العربية) & Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Private transportation
Chef de groupe
Prise en charge et retour à l'hôtel
Air-conditioned vehicle
Déjeuner
Gratuities
Itinéraire
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Beyrouth
9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut
Your knowledgeable English-speaking driver collects you from your Beirut hotel and heads southeast into the Chouf Mountains — pine-forested ridges climbing above the coastal plain as you wind upward toward Beiteddine.
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Palais de Beiteddine
Arrive at one of the most magnificent palaces in the Arab world — built between 1788 and 1840 by Emir Bashir II, the powerful ruler who unified Lebanon's mountain communities under a single authority for the first time in centuries. Three grand interconnected courtyards decorated with hand-cut geometric tilework, carved cedar-wood ceilings, and elaborately painted reception halls reveal the extraordinary ambition and craftsmanship of this Chouf mountain retreat. Beneath the palace, an underground museum preserves Lebanon's finest collection of Byzantine mosaics — floor panels of extraordinary colour and detail recovered from archaeological sites across the country. Today the palace serves as the official summer residence of the Lebanese President. Your driver shares the full story of Emir Bashir and the palace he built to endure.
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Cèdre du Barouk
Drive to the Barouk Cedar Forest — one of the most accessible and most rewarding sections of the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Lebanon's largest nature reserve and a UNESCO-recognised landscape of exceptional ecological significance. The Barouk grove sits at high altitude within the reserve and protects ancient cedar trees descended from the vast forests that once covered these mountains — the same trees whose timber built Phoenician ships, Solomon's Temple, and the palaces of Egypt. An hour among these ancient trunks — walking the marked paths through the grove at your own pace, the mountain air cool and clear, the silence of a protected forest around you — is one of the most quietly restorative experiences in the entire Chouf. Your driver shares the story of the reserve and the conservation efforts that saved these trees as you explore.
45 minutes
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Deir el-Qamar
Drive to Deir el Qamar — meaning "Monastery of the Moon" — one of the most enchanting and best-preserved villages in Lebanon and the country's first capital under the Ma'an dynasty. The central square is framed by honey-stone mansions dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, a Druze palace, and public buildings that speak to the village's former political importance. After the imperial grandeur of Beiteddine and the natural solitude of the cedar forest, Deir el Qamar offers something quieter and equally moving — a village that has simply endured, its mosque and church standing together in the same square for centuries.
30 minutes
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Mosquée Fakhreddine
Fakhreddine Mosque & Saydet el Tallé Church
Visit the 17th-century mosque built by Fakhreddine II — the visionary Druze emir considered one of the founding fathers of modern Lebanon — before climbing to the hilltop Maronite church with sweeping views over the Chouf valleys below. Two places of worship, metres apart, sharing the same hillside for centuries — a moment that captures the essential spirit of Deir el Qamar and of Lebanon itself.
30 minutes
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Deir el-Qamar
Lunch in Deir el Qamar — optional
Settle into one of Deir el Qamar's traditional mountain restaurants for a Lebanese lunch — stone-vaulted dining rooms and shaded terraces serving generous mezze spreads, grilled meats, and fresh mountain bread with Chouf valley views. After a morning in a presidential palace and an afternoon in an ancient cedar forest, lunch here feels like exactly the right conclusion to a day in the Chouf Mountains.
1 heure
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Beyrouth
Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:00 PM
Mountain drive back to Beirut with drop-off at your hotel — completing a full day in the Chouf that moved from a presidential palace to an ancient cedar forest to Lebanon's first capital, entirely at your own pace.