The small country at the Mediterranean, also "Switzerland of the Near East" mentioned, offers not only variety at archaeological places and historical monuments, but also an impressing landscape to you: The zedern, symbol Lebanon, which Lebanon mountains pulled through, from deep valleys, the sight of far fields, flowering trees and meadows, the noise of the rivers and brooks, those the Mediterranean inflows and not least the quirlige capital Beirut. |
Pinien and Zedernwaelder as well as terrace cultures with Olivenhainen and obstgaerten cover the mountains, whose highest summit rises over 3,000 meters. The mountains are snow-covered into April inside. Thus it is to be driven in Lebanon possible in the morning ski and bathed in the afternoon. In the mountains are also beautiful, European seeming summer-resort places, e.g. Broumana, Aley and Damour. |
Direction the east drops the Lebanon mountains steeply and flows into and 120 km long Bekaa bekaa-Hochebene, the grain chamber of the country broad up to 15 km. Here also the well-known weingueter of Kafraiya and Kasra lie, where outstanding wines are gekeltert and the bekoemmliche Arak is burned. The summers in the Bekaa level are hot, the winters cold. The border to Syria forms the water-poor mountain range of hardly inhabited anti-Lebanon with arid climate |
Only slowly Lebanon develops to a routistic attraction, because its true nature reveals itself only hesitating. Its geographical conditions are coined/shaped by the fascinating and extremely close connection of sea and mountains. Of the close coastal plains, in which one finds the most important cities of the phoenizischen antiquity to find up to the impressive mountain chain anti-Lebanon is the most diverse landscapes without they resemble each other |
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