Jaw-Dropping Byblos & Jeita Grotto Tour #lebanon

Jaw-Dropping Byblos & Jeita Grotto Tour #lebanon

this is p ptil excited wow I am excited but this is p tunang coming to you from J Grotto in Lebanon we are currently north of Lebanon I recently finished filming a full series on Aleppo Syria my hometown where I was born and raised and now I’m in Lebanon and we’re starting off strong with J Grotto I want to show you around Lebanon I used to also come here as a kid a lot um I used to have family here so we used to visit Lebanon it’s a very very very very beautiful country with a lot to offer so I’m really excited to re-explore it with you guys and learn more things and show you around and I’ll tell you a little bit more about Jita groto before we go in so I’m going to show you the views which is also beautiful and I’m so glad we’re having a great day I thought there might be rain today but so far so good let’s hope it continues this way so J Grotto is the longest cave complex in the Middle East it sits about 300 m above sea level it’s situated um between Nahar cellb the cellb river so the caves provide an underground Escape for Nahar cellb the river the river cellb so we will be exploring the caves today with a boat and I also think we’re taking this little miniature train thingy here I believe the entrance fee for the caves it says it’s about 8 or $10 I’m actually here with a tour today I will include the link in the description of the tour in case you guys want to come here with a guide and explore a few different things happening in north of Lebanon um I will also be going to harisa today and biblo so stay tuned make sure you’re subscribed we’re almost at 8,000 subscribers so yay um so let’s go in and find out more [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay I’ve been here before and I visited the groto a few times but every single time I come here I swear I have like hard eyes and I’m just excited and I’m looking around so it’s not allowed to bring in cameras or phones inside because they don’t want any of the flashes to interfere with the limestones and also apparently there has been some accidents in the past where people drop their phones in the water but I will do my best to find um some videos online I’m sure they post some videos I don’t know and uh show it to you guys but I really really really recommend coming here because um there’s nothing like seeing it in person and just being in the presence of Mother Nature doing its work it’s um throughout like thousands and thousands of years these um what do you what do you call the things that built up from the drops of the water I will find that word online so basically how they form in the cave is um because the water drips from the river above or the melting snow and then if it’s dripping sow slowly it just forms those things that go down so with with the help from my new friend and my guide today the things that come down and up are called stellic MIT and stellic tight tight tight [Music] [Music] we now arrived to harisa harisa is a very old Christian village uh which is why they decided to to um put a statue of Virgin Mary up there I’m going to try to go up and um Film It Up close and we’ll get a view of BS from up there as [Music] well I can see people paragliding over there which is something that maybe I will do next time I’m here my guide um his name is har and he has been encouraging me to go paragliding I will take his word for it but not this time next time [Music] one more thing I want to mention is that usually you would go up to harisa with the teleferic right behind me however after the little incident they had I think a few months ago where two teler bumped into each other they closed it and I think they just opened it yesterday but um I don’t like heights and I don’t like taking that kind of risk so um the guide suggested that we go come up here with the car and then we’ll also go back down with the car and I think it’s about to rain or thunderstorm I’m not sure so I’m going to go shelter and we’ll go to the next top which is biblos I’m really excited our whoa my voice just went away our next up on this beautiful tour as you can see right behind me here with the sea and biblos um also known as okay I’ll I’ll get clo closer and show you guys also known as B um bios biblos is actually one of the world’s oldest inhabited towns um that are continuously inhabited um they I think the history dates back to over 5,000 years and it is a UNESCO world heritage side what I will be doing right now is actually walking towards the castle over there so on the way we’ll explore um what the city has to offer and the reason why biblos was called biblos is because it is mainly known for producing umus soos let’s go [Music] and in front of me I see the AR Armenian Scouts uh let’s see what they’re up to it’s so beautiful [Music] here as you can start seeing the glimpses of the souk uh on the way to the castle whoops w we will be exploring a little bit of the old souk and see what they’re up to and what they’re selling really fun here and um little fun fact I don’t know if it’s a fun facts or just a fact that this is actually my favorite region in [Music] Lebanon here in Arabic it says the street of the um old souk the shops [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it’s time for a little coffee with the view of the old soup this is really nice so this coffee was $2 USD um so one thing in Lebanon is that you can actually pay in dollar in US Dollars here they accept the currency and then if the change that they have to give you back could be done in dollars they would do it however a lot of times they would return the money back to you in Lebanese money be [Music] I’m now about to enter the bio Citadel and the entrance fee for Lebanese was um 200,000 Lebanese L um for syrians I think it was 400,000 but my guide told the guy at the door ticket guide that I’m Lebanese and I got the cheaper ticket so woohoo for

Explore the mysteries of Jeita Grotto and Byblos in this captivating video. Learn about the history and beauty of Jeita Grotto and discover the ancient wonders of Byblos.

The Jeita Grotto is a system of two separate, but interconnected, karstic limestone caves spanning an overall length of nearly 9 kilometres. The caves are situated in the Nahr al-Kalb river valley within the locality of Jeita, 18 kilometres north of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon (also known as Our Lady of Harissa, Arabic: سيدة لبنان, Sayyidat Lubnān) is a Marian shrine and a pilgrimage site in the village of Harissa in Lebanon.

Byblos souks are one of the most famous traditional souks of Lebanon and the most visited. With different shops filled with Lebanese traditional souvenirs and cultural artifacts, you can also visit different restaurants that serve a variety of food and cuisine.
Among the most important tourist spots of Byblos is the Old Souk . The Old Souk is an old marketplace, built on an old Roman road during the Ottoman reign. It is beautifully restored, consisting of small local shops that sell souvenirs of the city and other heritage sites of Lebanon, local crafts and handmade gifts. There are also cozy bars and outdoor cafes along the walk, waiting for you to go in. The scene shifts from day to night. At night, the place changes and most bars look like a dream venue for a night out. People sometimes go there just for a walk in the alleys of the souks, as it takes you back millions of years ago. The charm of this place will keep you coming back for more.

As to Byblos Port, it is an ancient port in Byblos, Lebanon and is believed by the Lebanese to be oldest port in the world. Around 3000 BC, Byblos Port was the most important timber shipping center in the eastern Mediterranean. It was used by the Phoenicians to ship their local wine, Cedars of Lebanon and other wood to the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt to be used in tomb construction and shipbuilding.

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00:00 Intro
01:06 Jeta Grotto Lebanon
05:22 Our Lady of Lebanon Harisa
07:06 Byblos
09:35 Byblos Old Souks