The Chouf Mountains have three very different things to show you — and all three are within 10 minutes of each other. A presidential palace built by one of Lebanon's most powerful rulers. A medieval castle built by one very stubborn Lebanese man who spent 60 years proving his teacher wrong. And a perfectly preserved Ottoman village that was Lebanon's first capital and still looks the part. One day, three stories — and none of them boring. Beiteddine Palace is the grand one — ornate courtyards, carved cedar ceilings, and an underground Byzantine mosaic museum that stops most visitors in their tracks. Moussa Castle is the one nobody forgets — a full-scale medieval fortress hand-built stone by ...
Главные места
7 часы
Предлагается в Арабский & Английский
Бесплатная отмена бронирования
Мобильный билет
7 часы
Предлагается в Арабский & Английский
Бесплатная отмена бронирования
Мобильный билет
Что входит
Водитель со знанием английского языка
Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
Частный автомобиль с кондиционером
Lunch in Deir el Qamar (optional — at own expense)
Чаевые (по желанию)
Важная информация
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Имеются специальные детские сиденья.
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Подходит для всех уровней физической подготовки
Политика аннулирования
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The Chouf Mountains have three very different things to show you — and all three are within 10 minutes of each other. A presidential palace built by one of Lebanon's most powerful rulers. A medieval castle built by one very stubborn Lebanese man who spent 60 years proving his teacher wrong. And a perfectly preserved Ottoman village that was Lebanon's first capital and still looks the part. One day, three stories — and none of them boring. Beiteddine Palace is the grand one — ornate courtyards, carved cedar ceilings, and an underground Byzantine mosaic museum that stops most visitors in their tracks. Moussa Castle is the one nobody forgets — a full-scale medieval fortress hand-built stone by ...
Главные места
7 часы
Предлагается в Арабский & Английский
Бесплатная отмена бронирования
Мобильный билет
7 часы
Предлагается в Арабский & Английский
Бесплатная отмена бронирования
Мобильный билет
Что входит
Водитель со знанием английского языка
Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
Частный автомобиль с кондиционером
Lunch in Deir el Qamar (optional — at own expense)
Чаевые (по желанию)
Маршрут
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Бейрут
9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut
Your driver picks you up from your Beirut hotel and heads southeast into the Chouf Mountains — pine-forested ridges rising above the coastal plain as you climb toward Beiteddine.
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Дворец Бейтеддин
Built between 1788 and 1840 by Emir Bashir II — the man who unified Lebanon's warring mountain factions under a single authority — Beiteddine is one of the most impressive palaces in the Arab world and today serves as the Lebanese President's summer residence. Three grand interconnected courtyards decorated with hand-cut geometric tilework, carved cedar-wood ceilings, and elaborately painted reception halls give you a very clear sense of what power and ambition looked like in 19th-century Lebanon. Beneath the palace, an underground museum houses the finest collection of Byzantine mosaics in Lebanon — floor panels of extraordinary colour that most visitors completely miss. Your driver knows where to look and what to look for.
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Замок Мусса
Just minutes from Beiteddine is the attraction that surprises everyone — and that nobody who visits ever forgets. In the 1940s, a Lebanese schoolboy named Moussa Maamari wrote a love letter to a girl in his class. His teacher read it aloud and mocked him in front of everyone — telling the class that a boy like Moussa would never amount to anything, let alone live in a castle. Moussa spent the next 60 years proving him wrong. Working largely alone, he quarried stone, mixed mortar, and built a full-scale medieval castle by hand — then filled it with hundreds of life-size wax figures depicting Lebanese history, village life, Druze traditions, and Ottoman-era battles. The result is completely unlike anything else in Lebanon — part medieval fortress, part wax museum, part monument to sheer human stubbornness. Walk through it and try not to be impressed. You cannot.
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Эль Камар говорит
A short drive brings you to Deir el Qamar — meaning "Monastery of the Moon" — one of the most perfectly preserved Ottoman villages in Lebanon and the country's first capital under the Ma'an dynasty. The central square is framed by honey-stone mansions, a Druze palace, and public buildings that have barely changed in 300 years. After the imperial grandeur of Beiteddine and the extraordinary personal drama of Moussa Castle, Deir el Qamar offers something quieter and equally worth your time — cobblestone streets, mountain air, and a village that has been going about its business since the 16th century without making a big deal about it.
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Церковь Сайдет Эль Талле
Saydet el Tallé Church & Fakhreddine Mosque
A quick visit to the hilltop Maronite church with sweeping Chouf valley views, and the 17th-century mosque built by Fakhreddine II — the Druze emir who expanded his territory from the Bekaa to the Sinai and is considered one of Lebanon's founding fathers. A church and a mosque, metres apart, sharing a hillside for 400 years. Perfectly normal in Deir el Qamar.
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Эль Камар говорит
Lunch in Deir el Qamar — optional
Traditional mountain Lebanese lunch at one of Deir el Qamar's stone-vaulted restaurants — mezze, grilled meats, fresh bread, and Chouf valley views. After a morning of palaces and castles, sitting down to eat in a 300-year-old village feels exactly right.
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Бейрут
Return to Beirut — approx. 4:30–5:30 PM
Mountain drive back to Beirut with drop-off at your hotel — completing a day of three very different Chouf stories, all of them worth telling.