More Lebanon

Well, folks, I am feeling better today (Wednesday). I picked up a bug and was feeling awful since Monday morning. I am well enough to post a blog :)

Yes, Lebanon was really a great place to visit. It is a lot like New Orleans with it's French influence. A hilly New Orleans. At any rate, we went to The Jeitta grotto or caves - stunning. The next day we spent wandering around Downtown Beirut in the Solidare to have a lunch before heading back to the hotel to rest before going out to dinner and then a drink at the Budda club, and finished off the evening with beer around the infinity pool on the roof.

Our final day was a full one, with a trip to see the famous cedars of Lebanon at 5500'. So nice and cool. Caught a lizard that I can't identify and saw several new birds. From there we visited the palace at Beiteddine - outstanding! From there we made a couple of minor stops on the way down out of the mountains to the airport.
Flight home was pleasant, but I didn't get the last beer that I asked for :(

Got back into the Kingdom to find that a huge thunderstorm had come through while we gone and 12 people were drowned in a wadi flash flood north of here. Seems it is a common occurance here, as the Bedoins often camp in the wadis because the same is soft.