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Private Jeita, Harissa & Saint Charbel Tour | From Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
$200
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Overview
Jeita Grotto and Saint Charbel are two essential highlights when visiting Lebanon. The limestone caves offer a unique natural beauty that should not be missed.
- 🏷️ Private Tour: Enjoy a full-day private experience with a knowledgeable English-speaking driver and a comfortable air-conditioned vehicle.
- 🕘 9:00 AM Departure: Begin your adventure with a convenient pickup from your Beirut hotel, setting off towards the stunning Jeita Grotto.
- 🏞️ Explore the upper grotto on foot to appreciate its stunning limestone formations, some reaching heights of 26 feet (8 meters).
- 🚤 Take a serene boat ride in the lower grotto, navigating through chambers filled with magnificent stalactites and stalagmites.
- ⛪ Visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, where the iconic bronze statue offers breathtaking 360-degree views of the Mediterranean.
- 🚠 Experience the Harissa Téléférique, ascending 2,133 feet (650 meters) above sea level for panoramic views of the Lebanese coastline.
- 🌄 Discover the Monastery of St. Maron Annaya, where Saint Charbel Makhlouf spent his final years, surrounded by tranquil mountain scenery.
- 🕔 Return to Beirut around 5:00–6:00 PM, concluding a day filled with exploration across underground caves, mountain heights, and coastal views.
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PRIVATE TOUR
Lunch & Tickets not included : Please note this option does not include the Lunch and tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Duration: 8 hours
Pickup included
Lunch & Tickets not included : Please note this option does not include the Lunch and tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Duration: 8 hours
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 8 hours
- Private air-conditioned vehicle
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
- Knowledgeable English-speaking driver
- Hotel pick & drop off
- Gratuities (optional)
- Lunch
- 9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut Your driver picks you up from your Beirut hotel and heads north through the Dog River valley toward Jeita Grotto — first stop is 30 minutes away. (pass by)
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Start the day beneath the earth. Jeita Grotto is a UNESCO tentative World Heritage Site and top-five finalist in the New 7 Wonders of Nature — two interconnected limestone caves stretching 9 kilometres beneath the Lebanese mountains. The upper cave is explored on foot through formations of stalactites and stalagmites up to 8 metres tall that took millions of years to build. The lower cave is navigated by silent electric boat along an underground river through chambers where the silence and the beauty combine into something genuinely hard to describe. One of those places that is better in real life than in photos — and the photos are already stunning. Your driver waits while you take your time.
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Harissa cable car — from underground to above the clouds From the depths of the earth to 650 metres above the Mediterranean — board the Harissa Téléférique at Jounieh and ride up as the entire Lebanese coastline unfolds beneath you. The aerial views over Jounieh Bay on the ascent are among the most photographed in Lebanon and the 20-minute ride goes faster than you want it to.
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The Shrine of Our Lady of LebanonAt the mountaintop, the iconic bronze statue of Our Lady of Lebanon stands at 8.5 metres tall with arms outstretched toward the sea — one of the most recognised religious monuments in the Middle East, surrounded by the Maronite Basilica and churches that form one of Lebanon's most important pilgrimage complexes. Whether you come for the faith or just the extraordinary 360-degree view from up here — both are worth it.
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Monastery of St. Maron AnnayaSaint Charbel — the hermit who became a saint Drive into the mountains to Annaya — a remote village where Saint Charbel Makhlouf, Lebanon's most beloved saint, chose to spend the last 23 years of his life as a hermit, withdrawing completely from the monastery to live in a tiny stone cell on the mountainside. He died here on Christmas Eve 1898 and was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1977 — the first Middle Eastern saint canonised in the modern era. His tomb in the monastery church draws millions of pilgrims annually from across Lebanon, the Arab world, and the Catholic world. His hermitage — the tiny stone cell where he lived — is also open to visitors. The monastery itself is carved into the mountain, surrounded by nothing but the valley below and the silence he came here to find. Whatever brings you here — faith, curiosity, or just the extraordinary peace of the place — Annaya delivers it.
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ByblosLunch in Byblos — optional stop on the way back On the drive back toward Beirut, make an optional stop in Byblos — one of the oldest cities on earth — for lunch at a waterfront restaurant overlooking the ancient fishing port. Fresh mezze, grilled fish, medieval city walls, Mediterranean view. After a day that went underground, above the clouds, and deep into the mountains — a quiet lunch by the sea in one of the world's oldest cities feels like exactly the right ending.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 5:00–6:00 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel after a day that went underground, above the clouds, into the mountains, and back — three completely different worlds in eight hours. (pass by)
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Private Jeita, Harissa & Saint Charbel Tour | From Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
$200
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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