Private Anjar, Baalbek & Ksara Winery Day Trip | From Beirut

The Bekaa Valley does not mess around. In a single day from Beirut you can walk through a ghost city abandoned by the Umayyad Caliphate 1,300 years ago, stand inside the greatest Roman temples ever built, and finish the afternoon drinking Lebanese wine in Roman cave cellars beneath one of the oldest wineries in the Middle East. Two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and one very good wine tasting — all before dinner.

Anjar is the hidden gem — the only surviving Umayyad palatial city in the Levant, built by Caliph Walid I and abandoned after just a few decades, its colonnaded streets and palace walls still standing in the middle of the Bekaa plain. Baalbek needs no introduction — the Temple of Bacchus alone is larger than the Parthenon. And Ksara rounds out the day with 2 kilometres of ancient Roman cave cellars and a tasting of their iconic wines.