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Private Cedar Hike, Beiteddine Palace & Deir el Qamar Tour
Beirut, Lebanon
$250
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Overview
The Chouf Mountains showcase Lebanon's rich diversity with a private full-day tour from Beirut that combines nature, architecture, and history. This beautifully paced journey allows you to experience the region's highlights at your own leisure.
- 🌲 Begin your adventure with a moderate one-hour hike through the Maaser el Shouf Cedar Reserve, Lebanon's largest nature reserve, featuring an extensive cedar forest recognized by UNESCO.
- 🏰 Visit Beiteddine Palace, a stunning 19th-century architectural marvel, boasting three grand courtyards adorned with intricate tilework and an underground museum housing exquisite Byzantine mosaics.
- 🏞️ Enjoy the scenic drive through the Chouf Mountains, where your knowledgeable English-speaking driver shares captivating stories about the region's history and ecology.
- 🌄 Arrive at Deir el Qamar, Lebanon's first capital, known for its charming honey-stone mansions and harmonious coexistence of different cultures.
- 🕌 Explore the 17th-century Fakhreddine Mosque, built by a visionary Druze emir, and visit the hilltop Maronite church for breathtaking views over the valleys.
- 🍽️ Option for a leisurely lunch in Deir el Qamar at traditional mountain restaurants, offering generous mezze spreads and grilled meats with stunning valley vistas (lunch not included in the tour cost).
- 🚐 Comfortable private transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle ensures a relaxing journey throughout the day.
- 🕒 The tour lasts approximately 8 hours, with hotel pickup and drop-off included for your convenience.
- ♿ Wheelchair accessible, with pram/stroller accommodations and specialized infant seats available for young travelers.
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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
- Comfortable Private Transportation
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Tour Leader
- Gratuities
- Lunch
- 9:00 AM — Departure from Beirut Your knowledgeable English-speaking driver collects you from your Beirut hotel and heads southeast into the Chouf Mountains — pine and cedar-forested ridges rising steeply above the coastal plain as you climb toward Maaser el Shouf and the biosphere reserve. (pass by)
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Shouf Cedars ReserveArrive at the Maaser el Shouf Cedar Reserve — the heart of the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Lebanon's largest nature reserve and one of the most ecologically significant protected landscapes in the Middle East. The reserve protects one of Lebanon's most extensive surviving cedar forests — ancient trees descended from the vast cedar forests that once covered these mountains and whose timber built Phoenician ships, Solomon's Temple, and the palaces of Egypt. A moderate one-hour hike takes you along the marked trail through the grove — terrain that includes some inclines and rocky sections that make it more engaging than a gentle stroll. Ancient cedar trunks tower above you, the mountain air is cool and clear, and the silence of a protected forest at altitude is something that stays with you. Your driver shares the story of the reserve, the conservation efforts that saved these trees, and the remarkable ecology of the Shouf on the drive up and back.
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Arrive at one of the most magnificent palaces in the Arab world — built between 1788 and 1840 by Emir Bashir II, the ruler who unified Lebanon's fractured mountain communities under a single authority. Three grand interconnected courtyards decorated with hand-cut geometric tilework, 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 preserves Lebanon's finest collection of Byzantine mosaics — floor panels of extraordinary colour and detail. After the natural grandeur of the cedar forest, the human grandeur of Beiteddine feels like a perfect counterpoint — both extraordinary achievements, one by nature and one by hand, both in the same Chouf mountain landscape. Your driver shares the full story of Emir Bashir and his remarkable palace.
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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 and 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 importance. A mosque and a church stand metres apart in the same square — the quiet, enduring coexistence that defines Lebanon at its most harmonious and its most human.
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Fakhreddine's MosqueFakhreddine Mosque & Saydet el Tallé Church Visit the 17th-century mosque built by Fakhreddine II — the visionary Druze emir considered one of the founding fathers of modern Lebanon — before climbing to the hilltop Maronite church with sweeping views over the Chouf valleys below. After a day that began in the cedar forest and moved through a presidential palace, ending at two places of worship that have peacefully shared the same hillside for centuries feels like exactly the right conclusion.
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Deir el QamarLunch in Deir el Qamar — optional Settle into one of Deir el Qamar's traditional mountain restaurants for a long, unhurried Lebanese lunch — stone-vaulted dining rooms and shaded terraces serving generous mezze spreads, grilled meats, and fresh mountain bread with Chouf valley views. After a morning hike and an afternoon in a presidential palace, this is the most natural and satisfying way to end a day in the Chouf Mountains.
- Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:00 PM Mountain drive back to Beirut with drop-off at your hotel — completing a full day that moved from ancient cedar forest to imperial palace to Lebanon's first capital, all within the extraordinary Chouf Mountains. (pass by)
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Private Cedar Hike, Beiteddine Palace & Deir el Qamar Tour
Beirut, Lebanon
$250
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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