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Private Beiteddine, Deir el Qamar & Sidon Tour | From Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
$200
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Overview
The Private Day Tour from Beirut offers a unique journey through three distinct Lebanese landscapes, featuring a majestic mountain palace, a charming Ottoman village, and one of the world's oldest coastal cities. This full-day adventure traces a scenic triangular loop through the Chouf Mountains, descending to the ancient Phoenician shoreline.
- 🏰 Begin your day at Beiteddine, a stunning 19th-century palace built by Emir Bashir II, known for its grand courtyards, intricately carved cedar ceilings, and an underground Byzantine mosaic museum.
- 🏘️ Visit Deir el Qamar, Lebanon's first capital, where honey-stone mansions, a mosque, and a church share the same cobblestone square, showcasing the village's rich history and harmonious coexistence.
- 🕌 Stop by Fakhreddine's Mosque, a 17th-century structure, before enjoying panoramic views from the nearby Maronite church that overlooks the picturesque Chouf valleys.
- 🍽️ Optional lunch in Deir el Qamar at a mountain restaurant, featuring generous mezze spreads and breathtaking views of the Chouf valley.
- 🏰 Explore the Crusaders Sea Castle in Sidon, a 13th-century landmark perched on an island, where your guide shares tales of ancient battles and the city's maritime history.
- 🛍️ Wander through Sidon Souks, one of Lebanon's best-preserved traditional markets, offering a glimpse into Levantine commercial life with spice merchants and artisan workshops.
- 🧼 Discover the world's only museum dedicated to the ancient art of olive oil soap-making, showcasing the traditional methods that have made Sidon famous for over a thousand years.
- 🏛️ Conclude your visit at Khan al-Franj, a magnificent 17th-century caravanserai, renowned for its elegant architecture and historical significance as a Silk Road trading hub.
- 🚐 Enjoy the convenience of a private air-conditioned vehicle for the duration of your tour, ensuring comfort as you travel between locations.
- 🌍 Wheelchair accessible, with specialized infant seats available, making the tour suitable for all physical fitness levels and family-friendly.
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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
- Expert private guide
- Private air-conditioned vehicle
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
- Gratuities (optional)
- Lunch in Deir el Qamar (optional — at own expense)
- 9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut Your private guide and driver collect you from your Beirut hotel and head southeast into the Chouf Mountains — pine-forested ridges climbing steeply above the coastal plain as you wind upward toward Beiteddine (pass by)
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Arrive at one of the most magnificent palaces in the Arab world — built over three decades by Emir Bashir II, the powerful ruler who unified Lebanon's fractured communities under a single authority in the early 19th century. Three grand interconnected courtyards decorated with hand-cut geometric tilework, intricately carved cedar-wood ceilings, and elaborately painted reception halls reveal the extraordinary ambition and craftsmanship of this mountain retreat. Beneath the palace, an underground museum houses Lebanon's finest collection of Byzantine mosaics — floor panels of extraordinary colour recovered from archaeological sites across the country. Your guide brings Emir Bashir's remarkable story to life within these walls.
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Deir el QamarDrive down to Deir el Qamar — meaning "Monastery of the Moon" — one of the most enchanting and best-preserved villages in Lebanon, the country's first capital under the Ma'an dynasty. The central square is framed by honey-stone mansions dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, a Druze palace, and public buildings that speak to the village's former political and commercial importance. A mosque and a church within steps of each other tell the quiet story of Lebanese coexistence at its most harmonious.
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Fakhreddine's MosqueA quick visit to the 17th-century mosque built by Fakhreddine II — the visionary Druze emir considered one of the founding fathers of modern Lebanon — before stepping up to the hilltop Maronite church with sweeping views over the Chouf valleys below. Two places of worship, metres apart, sharing the same hillside — a moment that captures the essential spirit of Deir el Qamar.
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Deir el QamarLunch in Deir el Qamar — optional Before descending to the coast, an optional lunch at one of Deir el Qamar's mountain restaurants — stone-vaulted dining rooms serving generous mezze spreads with Chouf valley views. A perfect mountain pause before the coastal finale.
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Crusaders Sea CastleArrive in Sidon — one of the oldest cities in the world — and begin at its most iconic landmark. The 13th-century Crusader sea castle sits on a small island just off the coast, connected to the shore by a narrow stone causeway, its towers rising directly from the Mediterranean. As you walk through its vaulted halls, your guide recounts the dramatic history of Crusader occupation, Mamluk sieges, and the Phoenician harbour that once made Sidon one of the most powerful trading cities of the ancient world. The sea views from the ramparts are among the finest on the Lebanese coast.
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Sidon SouksStep into one of Lebanon's most authentically preserved traditional markets — narrow stone-vaulted alleyways where spice merchants, goldsmiths, and artisan workshops have occupied the same spaces for centuries. Unlike the restored souks of Beirut, Sidon's old market is the real, living, breathing thing — a genuine window into Levantine commercial life that has changed very little since the Ottoman era.
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Visit the world's only museum dedicated to the ancient art of olive oil soap-making — a Sidonian craft practiced continuously for over a thousand years. Housed in a beautifully restored khan within the old city, the museum traces the full journey from olive grove to finished soap cake, with exhibits showing the traditional pressing, cooking, and cutting methods that made Sidon's soap famous across the Mediterranean world and as far as Europe.
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Khan al-FranjEnd your time in Sidon at the grand 17th-century caravanserai commissioned by Emir Fakhreddine II to accommodate European merchants trading along the Silk Road. Wide arcaded courtyards, elegant vaulted galleries, and carved stone facades make Khan el Franj one of the finest pieces of Ottoman-era architecture in Lebanon — and a fitting final image of a city that has been at the crossroads of Mediterranean trade for three thousand years.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:00 PM North along the coastal highway back to Beirut with drop-off at your hotel — completing a day that moved from mountain palace to Ottoman village to ancient coastal city, entirely at your own pace. (pass by)
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Private Beiteddine, Deir el Qamar & Sidon 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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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!