🏨 Half-Day Private Tour to Baalbek With Wine Tasting and Lunch Included Activity

Half-Day Private Tour to Baalbek With Wine Tasting and Lunch Included

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 7 hours

Departs: Beirut, Beirut

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Whether you’re spending a little or a lot of time in Lebanon, this half day tour provides a great introduction to some of Lebanon's highlight. With hotel pickup and drop-off included, Travel from Beirut to Baalbek in an air-conditioned car or minivan to guarantee safety and security and benefit from the local insight of a guide as you learn more about Baalbek, with its colossal structures as one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.
Out the tour with a good Lebanese lunch and sample red, white and rosé wines at Château Ksara.

What's Included

Air-conditioned vehicle

All entrance fees

English Speaking Driver

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Local guide in Baalback

Lunch

What's Not Included

Gratuity

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 0 - 99

Additional Info

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Face masks provided for travellers
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Specialized infant seats are available

Cancellation Policy

What To Expect

Baalbek, is home to the Baalbek temple complex which includes two of the largest and grandest Roman temple ruins: the Temple of Bacchus and the Temple of Jupiter. It was inscribed in 1984 as an UNESCO World Heritage site.
This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshipped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period. It retained its religious function during Roman times, when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter attracted thousands of pilgrims. Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Temples of Baalbek

The complex of temples at Baalbek is located at the foot of the south-west slope of Anti-Lebanon, bordering the fertile plain of the Bekaa at an altitude of 1150 m. The city of Baalbek reached its apogee during Roman times. Its colossal constructions built over a period of more than two centuries, make it one of the most famous sanctuaries of the Roman world and a model of Imperial Roman architecture. Pilgrims thronged to the sanctuary to venerate the three deities, known under the name of the Romanized Triad of Heliopolis, an essentially Phoenician cult (Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus).

1 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Sayyida Khawla Shrine

The Mosque of sayeda Khawla in Baalbek, Lebanon is erected on the site where Sayyida Khawla, the daughter of Imam al-Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is believed to have been buried. People of Baalbek believe that when the caravan of captives of Karbala passed Baalbek, The daughter of Imam al-Hussein, called Khawla passed away and was buried there.

• Admission Ticket Free

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