No expiration date
Easy refund
Free exchange
Easy booking
Private Anjar, Baalbek Temple & Ksara Tour | Guided · From Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
$200
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
The Bekaa Valley tour offers a deep dive into three distinct eras of history in just one day. This private experience ensures expert guidance at every stop, providing a comprehensive look at Lebanon's rich past.
- 🏛️ Visit Anjar, the only surviving Umayyad palatial city in the Levant, built in the 8th century and guided by a local expert who highlights its historical significance.
- 🌍 Explore Baalbek, a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring the impressive Temple of Bacchus, larger than the Parthenon, with insights from a knowledgeable local guide.
- 🍷 Discover Château Ksara, Lebanon's oldest winery, founded by Jesuits in 1857, and tour its extensive Roman cave cellars spanning 2 kilometers.
- 🕗 Enjoy a full-day itinerary lasting approximately 8 hours, with hotel pickup and drop-off included for your convenience.
- 🚌 Travel in a private air-conditioned vehicle exclusively for your group, ensuring comfort throughout the day.
- 👨🏫 Benefit from expert local guides at both Anjar and Baalbek, who provide detailed interpretations of the sites you visit.
- 🍽️ Lunch is available at your own expense, with options for Lebanese mezze in Baalbek or at the riverside terraces of Zahle, a culinary hotspot.
- 🚗 A knowledgeable English-speaking driver accompanies you, sharing insights and ensuring a smooth journey across the Bekaa Valley.
- 🪑 Specialized infant seats are available, making this tour suitable for families with young children.
Sharing the wonders of the Bekaa Valley is easy with Tinggly, offering sustainable gifting options that are delivered instantly. With no expiration on vouchers and the freedom to choose from experiences around the globe, it's the perfect way to celebrate history and culture.
—
PRIVATE TOUR
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
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
- Expert local guide at Anjar Umayyad ruins
- Expert local guide at Baalbek temple complex
- Stone of the Pregnant Woman quarry stop
- Private air-conditioned vehicle exclusively for your group
- Knowledgeable English-speaking driver
- Gratuities (optional)
- Lunch (optional — at own expense)
- 8:30 AM — Hotel pickup Your driver meets the group at your Beirut hotel and heads east on the Damascus highway — over the Lebanese mountains and down into the Bekaa Valley. Anjar is about an hour away. (pass by)
-
Umayyad Ruins of AanjarAnjar — the Umayyad city most Lebanon visitors drive straight past Built in the early 8th century by Caliph Walid I — the ruler who also commissioned the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem — and abandoned within decades, never rebuilt. Colonnaded streets, a palace with over 40 towers, a mosque, and bathhouses all still standing in the Bekaa plain. The only surviving example of a complete Umayyad palatial city in the entire Levant — and one of the most underrated archaeological sites in the Middle East. Most tour groups skip it entirely. Your expert local Anjar guide makes sure you understand exactly what you are standing in and why it matters as much as anything else you will see today.
-
Stone of the Pregnant Woman — scale check before the temples A single limestone block, 21 metres long, weighing 1,000 tonnes, cut 2,000 years ago and never moved. Your driver explains the engineering logic — and why standing next to it recalibrates everything before you enter the temple complex five minutes ahead.
-
Baalbek TempleBaalbek Temple Complex — expert local guide The greatest Roman temple complex on earth — with an expert local Baalbek guide whose knowledge of these structures goes well beyond what visiting guides can offer. The Temple of Jupiter on Trilithon stones each weighing over 800 tonnes — the largest dressed stones in human history. The Temple of Bacchus, larger than the Parthenon and almost entirely intact — the best-preserved Roman temple on earth. The Temple of Venus completing a complex that took three centuries to build. Having already seen Anjar with a local expert, the Roman world of Baalbek lands with even greater force — two civilisations, the same valley, two specialist interpreters making sure nothing is missed.
-
BaalbeckLunch in Baalbek or Zahle — optional Lebanese mezze in Baalbek or at the riverside restaurant terraces of Zahle — Lebanon's most celebrated food destination. Optional and at your own expense. Your driver recommends the best options.
-
Chateau KsaraChateau Ksara — Roman caves beneath Lebanon's oldest winery Lebanon's oldest winery — founded by Jesuit monks in 1857 above 2 kilometres of Roman cave cellars where wine ages at a naturally constant temperature year-round. The cave tour connects directly back to the Roman world at Baalbek — same civilisation, same valley, different legacy entirely. Then a tasting of Ksara's iconic Cabernet-Syrah blends, crisp Blanc de Blancs, and celebrated Sunset Rosé. A day that opened at an 8th-century Umayyad ghost city closes in ancient Roman wine caves. The Bekaa in one day, interpreted properly.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 6:00–7:00 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel. A Umayyad ghost city, the world's greatest Roman temples, and ancient wine caves — two expert local guides, one complete Bekaa day, done properly. (pass by)
How it works?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!
Private Anjar, Baalbek Temple & Ksara Tour | Guided · 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?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!