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Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche | Budget Small-Group Tour From Beirut 20% OFF
Beirut, Lebanon
$120
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Overview
The Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche day trip offers an affordable way to experience South Lebanon's rich history in just one day from Beirut. This small group tour, limited to a maximum of 12 participants, allows you to explore at your own pace without a professional guide.
- 🚌 Pickup included from your Beirut hotel for a convenient start to your adventure.
- 🏰 Visit the 13th-century Crusader Sea Castle in Sidon, a historical fortress connected to the shore by a stone causeway.
- 🛍️ Wander through the authentic Sidon Old Souks, where spice merchants and artisans have traded for centuries in unrenovated stone-vaulted alleyways.
- 🧼 Explore the unique Olive Oil Soap Museum, the only one of its kind globally, showcasing the history of soap production in Sidon.
- 🏛️ Discover Khan al-Franj, a 17th-century Silk Road caravanserai, featuring beautiful arcaded courtyards and vaulted galleries.
- 🌍 Experience the Al-Bass Archaeological Site in Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a triumphal arch and one of the largest Roman hippodromes.
- 🍽️ Optional lunch in Tyre offers fresh Lebanese mezze and seafood, available at your own expense.
- ⛪ Visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Mantara, a revered site for both Christians and Muslims, with stunning panoramic views over the coast.
- 🚐 Enjoy comfortable transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle throughout the tour.
- 👶 Specialized infant seats are available, making this tour suitable for all physical fitness levels.
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Lunch & Tickets not included: : Please note this option does not include the Lunch and tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Pickup included
Lunch & Tickets not included: : Please note this option does not include the Lunch and tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 8 hours
- Brief explanation about each site
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Hotel Pick up & Drop off
- Tour Leader
- Gratuities
- Meals
- 8:30 AM — Hotel pickup Your driver meets the group at your Beirut hotel and heads south along the Mediterranean coastal highway toward Sidon. (pass by)
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Crusaders Sea CastleSidon Sea Castle — Crusader fortress on the water A 13th-century Crusader fortress on a small island just off the coast, connected to shore by a stone causeway with open sea on both sides. Phoenician traders were using this harbour 3,000 years before the Crusaders built here. Your driver covers the layered history at the entrance — you explore at your own pace.
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Sidon SouksSidon Old Souks — not renovated, not curated, just real Stone-vaulted alleyways where spice merchants, goldsmiths, and artisan workshops have traded for centuries — functioning exactly as they always have. Your driver points out what makes Sidon's market different from every other souk in Lebanon.
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Soap Museum — the only olive oil soap museum on earth Sidon has been producing olive oil soap for over a thousand years. This museum — the only one of its kind anywhere — tells the complete story from grove to finished bar. A stop most travelers did not know they wanted until they are inside it.
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Khan al-FranjKhan el Franj — the Silk Road caravanserai A 17th-century caravanserai built by Emir Fakhreddine II for European Silk Road merchants — arcaded courtyards, vaulted galleries, carved stone facades. One of the finest Ottoman buildings in Lebanon.
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Al-Bass Archaeological SiteTyre — UNESCO World Heritage Site Al-Bass Archaeological Complex — Roman Tyre at full scale Enter through a triumphal arch standing after two thousand years. Walk a colonnaded street flanked by ancient sarcophagi. Reach the Tyre Hippodrome — one of the largest in the Roman world, built for 20,000 spectators on a 480-metre track. Your driver covers the key facts at the entrance. You explore the full site at your own pace.
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TyreLunch in Tyre — optional Fresh Lebanese mezze and seafood at a local Tyre restaurant — Mediterranean right there, ancient city as backdrop. Optional and at your own expense.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Mantara — where she waited Mantara means "the one who waits" in Arabic. Christian tradition holds that the Virgin Mary waited here while Jesus preached in Sidon below — a place of pilgrimage for two millennia, revered equally by Christians and Muslims. Panoramic views over the southern Lebanese coast. A quiet close to a day that covered 5,000 years of history.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:30 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel. South Lebanon's 5,000 years of Phoenician, Crusader, Roman, and sacred history — at the most competitive price on this route. (pass by)
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Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche | Budget Small-Group Tour From Beirut 20% OFF
Beirut, Lebanon
$120
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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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!