Ehden - Bsharri (Cedars)- Kadisha -Kannoubine - Kousba

The symbol and the emblem of modern Lebanon, someone have more than 2000 years of age.

In Bsharri, we visit the Gebran Museum, the international poet of Lebanese origin the convent of St Anthony of Kozhaya, one of the numerous convents of the Holy Valley but the only one renovated and with easy access. To some hundreds of meters are located a cave called Our Lady of Heavy ones, as well as a Phoenician funerary monument, that it will be possible to discover.

Do not forget the valley Kadisha that spreads from Besharri to the coastal one. We visit also the famous and deep valley Kannoubine.

Ehden is a famous summer resort with a traditional village center whose main square hosts a number of cafes and restaurants, serving Lebanese food and which have made Ehden a tourist spot for local and foreign visitors.

Description

Bsharri (Cedars)

The most venerable representatives of the Cedars of Lebanon, which once covered the country's mountains.

Hundreds of trees stand on slopes 2,000 meters high in the shadow of the 3,088 meter peak of Qornet es- Sawda.

From Lebanon's cedar forests, Solomon got the timber to build his temple and palace, while the Egyptians Pharaohs used the wood carve their sarcophagi and 'sunships'.

Kadicha

Climax of Kadisha is a charming village of traditional architecture. Located in the area of Northern Lebanon, the "Holy Valley" extends from Bsharri to the littoral. Classified with the world cultural inheritance of UNESCO, its innumerable caves, vaults and monasteries as its luxuriant vegetation made of it the most famous natural site of Lebanon. These monasteries and caves were a long time the haven of peace, refuge of monk, but also of many Christians, come from the various neighboring areas.

These monasteries and caves were a long time the haven of peace, refuge of monk, but also of many Christians, come from the various neighboring areas.

Ehden

Horsh Ehden is a mountainous ecosystem on the Northern Mount Lebanon chain. It ranges from 1300m to 1950m in altitude and is located 3.5km north of Ehden and 100km from the capital Beirut.

This unique forest is a mixture of trees. More than 35 different species notably conifers, such as the Cedars, the High Juniper broadleaves such as the maple and the endemic wild apple. A number of water sources can be found in Horsh Ehden, the most important of which are Ain Al-Baq, Nabaa Jouït and Ain Al-Baiada.

Kannoubine

-"Kannoubine": word of Greek origin, which means "the community life". The Holy Valley extends over a 35 km length. It was the refuge of the Maronites who came there in the medium of VII century and lived patriarch unit there, monks, hermits, populate.

In Wadi Kannoubine this deep valley, you see only one high mountain on a side, a high mountain of the other, and a piece of sky in top. And if you look in this valley top of one of its hills, you feel that it attracts you with it by his depth and the force of its seduction. You are obliged to attach you with your two hands to a tree or a rock of fear of falling from height a 1000 meters.