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Lebanon (LB) |
| Continent: |
Asia |
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| Surface: |
10.452 km ² |
| Inhabitants: |
382.000 |
| Capital: |
Beirut |
International banking code (ISO Codes): |
LB |
| Official language: |
Arab |
Code: |
+961 |
| Currency: |
Book Lebanese |
Number plate: |
RL |
| Routes of Lebanon: |
353 |
Routes towards Lebanon: |
383 |
| Preferred airports: |
Beirut (BEY) |
| Principal cities: |
Beirut, Polished with rottenstone, Sidon, On, Habboûch, Juniyah, Zahlah, Baalbek, Jubayl, Batroûn, Taïr Harfa, Mtaïrîyât, Mazraat Mâr Eliâs, Mâr Taqla, Khirbet Qanafâr |
| Airline company based in Lebanon: |
Middle East Airlines, Flying Carpet Air Transportation & Services |
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Tourist guide Lebanon (Asia) |
Lebanon is located at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean. Its neighbors are Syria and Israel
Geography: The country consists of a thin strip of land wedged between two large chains of mountains. The high interior plain is very fertile. Its altitude drops as one approaches the sea.
Mountains and rivers: The culminating point of the country is Qurna Al-Saouda, with 3.085 Mr. As for the longest river, it acts of Litani, with 145 km.
Climate and advised season: The topography of Lebanon makes that he knows various climates. Along the coasts, it is the Mediterranean climate which dominates, with hot and dry summers, and soft and rainy winters. In the mountainous back-country, it is the continental climate of high-mountain which dominates, with snow in winter. The areas located at the Syrian border are characterized by a dry, typical climate steppes. It is the climate of transition which reigns before the arid zones do not begin. Few so small countries can claim with such a climatic diversity! Thus, one can practically hesitate, in Spring, between a stay-ski in the central mountains or a stay-beach in the areas of the edge of the Mediterranean. It is in the mountains which the famous cedars push, symbols of Lebanon, which decorate the flag of the country. In the valleys and on the soft slopes, one finds a large variety of fruits.
Language (S) of the country and communication: The official language of Lebanon is the Arab. However, it is not too difficult to be rendered comprehensible if one speaks a little English or French. Apart from that, some speak also the Armenian and Kurdish.
Health and vaccines: There is for the moment no obligatory vaccine. It is all the same advised to be made vaccinate against hepatitis has and to regularly check those against typhus and the polio. A vaccine against the rage is necessary only for the stays of long life. The travellers coming from an area infested by the yellow fever (see the list of the World Health Organization) must present a certificate of vaccination). Travellers not making that to forward by the airport are not concerned with this measurement. The quality of the medical care in Lebanon can compete with the Western standards. It is recommended to provide itself with a special health insurance for the voyages, valid in the whole world and including/understanding a insurance-repatriation in the event of urgency. Apart from that, it is advised to peel the fruits and to cook vegetables in order to avoid any risk of infection. It is also judicious to carry a small first-aid kit with the necessary one.
Conditions of entry: A valid passport is required. It must be valid still 6 months after being left Lebanon. Made attention not have of Israeli visa in your documents of voyage, without what you will not be able to enter to Lebanon. The visa is obligatory. You can obtain it from the embassies or from the consulates Lebanese. You can also obtain this visa directly with the airport of Beirut. The children must be provided with an individual passport.
If you wish to obtain from advantage of information in connection with the conditions of entry or safety, or on the vaccines to be carried out, please consult Internet site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Arrival and displacements on the spot: Lebanon is served by several large airline companies, such as Air France which proposes flights starting from Paris-Charles de Gaulle towards Beirut, the airport being located at 16 km in the South of the city. It is also possible to travel starting from London with the British Airways, or the Lebanese national company Middle East Airlines which serves many European big cities. On the other hand, there are no interior flights in Lebanon.
Capital: Beirut, called “Paris of the Middle East”, is located on the Mediterranean coast. It is the economic and cultural center of Lebanon. The city counts many universities and monuments, even if the war left its traces. The majority of the building were rebattis, but the print of the Western style is now omnipresent. It is a city where it is good to make shopping and to taste with the night life. Do not miss the baths Turkish of the district of Basta Tahta and the innumerable mosques and churches of the downtown area. It is in seaside that all the beauty of Beirut really appears. In background, one sees the mountains which present in winter their snow-covered tops. The seaside abounds in very beautiful beaches which have a large range of water sports. The walk pedestrian in seaside invites to the jogging and the dawdling. One can also prefer one of the many restaurants which mark out it. Or then, thus borrow the funicular to return to you to the statue of Notre Dame of Lebanon, and appreciate the sight.
Monuments: Lebanon is known for its archeological sites which update the culture of the Mediterranean people during antiquity. Thus, the town of Sidon, to forty km in the South of Beirut, was built on old Roman foundations. You will admire his castle of the sea which was built at the 13th century by the crusaders. This city knew an agitated past. At the 6th century, this city-State is one of the centers commercial in Mediterranean zone. As for Tyr, in the South of Sidon, it impresses above all by the vestiges of the old city, with its Roman hippodrome preserved very well. It was one of largest of antiquity. In the North of Beirut, one finds the town of Byblos, which would be according to certain more the old city of the world. The influence of the empires phenicians, Egyptians and Byzantines is present everywhere there. The vestiges of Byblos illustrate the agitated history of the city, a history which goes back to thousands of years before J.C. Byblos was from time immemorial, and already in antiquity, a religious, cultural and commercial center. Thus, its port had the reputation to be most important on the east coast of the Mediterranean. The principal monuments are enclosing the walls of the old city, the cathedral St Jean-Marc which dates from the time of the crusaders, the temples and the tomb royal ones, as well as the Roman theater, located in seaside. Near the Syrian border in North, one finds the wearing of Tripoli, which goes back to the Middle Ages. The second city of the country has much charm, which it owes with its thousand-year-old history and the great number of architectural chiefs of work set up by the Mamelukes. The monument more visited is the mosque, which was built on a cathedral which had been set up by the crusaders.
With not missing: The most known tourist site of Lebanon east Baalbek. This city is classified since 1984 with the world heritage of UNESCO. It is located between the two assembly lines of Lebanon and the Anti Lebanon and has, because of very favorable climatic conditions, the Roman temples best preserved world. The smallest temple with Baalbek already exceeds by its size the complete whole of the acropolis in Athens. One can then better realize of the Roman delusions of grandeur which led finally this empire to loss.
Religion: Several religious communities are recognized in Lebanon, among them, one finds 40% of Shiite Moslems, 25% of Moslems sunnites, 30% of Christians and 5% pertaining to various other religions.
Big cities: Beirut, Tripoli, Nabatieh, Zahlé, Sidon, Tyr and Chmestar.
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Flights expensive not preferred towards and of Lebanon/LB
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