Byblos – Jeita Grotto

The next day we headed north to a town called Byblos to check out its ruins, Crusader Castle, souq (market) and charming harbor. Byblos was a pretty cute little town nicely situated on the Mediterranean. In the 1960’s Byblos’ harbor was filled with yachts and its bars were hoppin.’ Today the harbor is home to rickety little fishing boats and the restaurants serve a trickle of tourists, rather than international celebrities.
On our way back to Beirut we visited one of Lebanon’s biggest attractions, Jeita Grotto. The Grotto is an expansive series of caverns that contain massive agglomerations of stalactites and stalagmites. The caverns are how I imagine other planets to look like and were very impressive. There were signs all over requesting visitors to vote the Grotto as one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. In my opinion, they might be impressive enough to qualify.