BEIRUT TRIP

Beirut? It was so wonderful, Beirut stands on the site of a very ancient settlement going back at least 5,000 years. Everything was sooo eye and breath catching for me. No wonder it is called "City that Would not Die." it is also known as "Paris of the Middle East." Although our trip was just for few days, I would say that we cover almost the major part of Lebanon. Thanks to Zaireen a.k.a Cik Senah for her effort come out with good itinerary within short time of period. Started by half day leave on Thursday, flight departed around 5.00pm form Doha and the journey took almost 3.00 hours.

Lebanon located at GMT +2 so we are one hour later than Doha.(ade org silap bgn awal...huh...terlalu awal...x pnh dia bgn ari jumaat seawal itu!!) Arriving Rafique Hariri International Airport was around 9.00pm. Kak Wasitah managed to arrange a driver prior to our arrival thru her Lebanese office peer.It seems me who doesn't contribute anything for this trip, so not a big wonder la kalau next trip they don't wanna include me huhu.

With the driver waited for us in the airport upon arrival, so we were driven to the pre booked suites. Lucky us that the hotel located in the center of town i.e Hamra Street. I would say it is quite happening street la jugak with rows of shops and so..

Generally Lebanon is very compact city, as we can see people residing and development are everywhere. Their medium of communication is Arabic and Frech as their 2nd langguage. In 3 days we covered Baalbek, Anjar, Zahle on the 1st day, and2nd day to Bettedein, Saida and Tyre, and last day to Jeita Grotto,Byblos and tour around town. On and off we also went to Corniche, Downtown and Beirut also!! Since picture worth thousands of words....enjoy our snaps!!

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Apart from enjoying the beauty of the scenery, what is new for me was to see the way how Christians there practice in very conservative way. Now i realised that they r most similar to Muslim do.A friend of mine told me over there even Muslims and Christians they are just like brothers...no bound to be