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Private Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche Tour | Local Tyre Guide Included
Beirut, Lebanon
$200
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Overview
South Lebanon offers a captivating glimpse into 5,000 years of history, featuring Phoenician, Crusader, and Roman influences. This private day trip covers three remarkable destinations, guided by an expert local who brings the stories to life.
- 🏰 Visit the stunning Sidon Sea Castle, a 13th-century Crusader fortress set on a small island, connected to the shore by a narrow stone causeway.
- 🛍️ Explore the Sidon Old Souks, where stone-vaulted alleyways have hosted spice merchants and artisans for centuries, untouched by modern renovations.
- 🧼 Discover the Soap Museum, the only olive oil soap museum in the world, showcasing the history of soap production from olive grove to finished product.
- 🏛️ Experience Khan al-Franj, a 17th-century caravanserai that once served European merchants along the Silk Road, featuring beautiful arcaded courtyards and vaulted galleries.
- 🏺 At the Al-Bass Archaeological Site, meet your expert local guide who will reveal the deep history of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, including its impressive Roman hippodrome.
- 🍽️ Optional lunch in Tyre offers fresh Lebanese mezze and seafood, with stunning Mediterranean views, recommended by your driver.
- ⛪ Visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Mantara, a revered pilgrimage site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have waited while Jesus preached in Sidon, featuring panoramic views of the coast.
- 🚐 Enjoy a private air-conditioned vehicle throughout the tour, ensuring comfort and convenience as you travel.
- 🕒 The tour lasts approximately 8 hours, with hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut included for your convenience.
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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.
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
- 30-minute walk through Sidon Old Souks
- Expert local guide at Tyre Al-Bass archaeological complex
- Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
- Sidon Sea Castle visit
- Soap Museum — world's only olive oil soap museum
- Private air-conditioned vehicle exclusively for your group
- Knowledgeable English-speaking driver
- Lunch in Tyre (optional — at own expense)
- Gratuities (optional)
- 9:00 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 narrow 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 full layered history from the castle ramparts — Phoenician port to Crusader fortress to Mamluk conquest — at your own pace.
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Sidon SouksSidon Old Souks — the real thing, not renovated for tourism Stone-vaulted alleyways where spice merchants, goldsmiths, and artisan workshops have traded continuously for centuries — not curated, not renovated, just functioning exactly as it always has. Your driver navigates with local knowledge and 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 — and this museum, the only one of its kind anywhere in the world, tells the complete story from olive grove to finished bar. Housed in a beautifully restored khan in the old city. A stop that most travelers did not know they wanted until they are inside it.
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Khan al-FranjKhan el Franj — where the Silk Road met the Mediterranean A 17th-century caravanserai built by Emir Fakhreddine II for European merchants trading along the Silk Road — arcaded courtyards, vaulted galleries, carved stone facades. One of the finest Ottoman buildings in Lebanon and a fitting close to Sidon before heading south.
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Al-Bass Archaeological SiteAl-Bass Archaeological Complex — expert local guide joins here Arrive in Tyre and meet your expert local guide — someone who has spent years studying this site and who knows its Roman and Phoenician layers at a depth that visiting guides cannot match. Enter through a triumphal arch still standing after two thousand years. Walk a colonnaded street flanked by ancient sarcophagi from the Roman necropolis. Reach the Tyre Hippodrome — one of the largest in the Roman world, built for 20,000 spectators on a 480-metre track, starting gates and turning posts still in place. Your guide places every structure in its full historical context — the kind of visit where you leave knowing what you actually saw.
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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. Your driver recommends the best local spots.
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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 in a cave on this hilltop while Jesus preached in Sidon below — a place of pilgrimage for two millennia, revered equally by Christians and Muslims. The Basilica stands above the ancient cave. Panoramic views over the southern Lebanese coast. A quiet, unexpected close to a day that covered 5,000 years of history along the way.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:30 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel. Sidon's Phoenician-to-Ottoman layers, the Roman world of Tyre with a local expert, and the pilgrimage sanctuary of Maghdouché — south Lebanon done properly. (pass by)
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Private Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche Tour | Local Tyre Guide Included
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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