Basic trips to discover and understand your country. Visit Lebanon’s major sites, learn about their history, cultural heritage and architecture. Meet the locals and take part in workshops to feel history in your hands.
- Tripoli and the Cedars: Discover 1000 years old city with its souks, mosques churches and castle. Walk in the shades of Lebanon’s national emblem.
- Byblos and Batroun: Walk with the Phoenician, learn their myths and alphabet. Discover the charm of a 19th city and discover the beauty of traditional Lebanese houses.
- Beirut and the National Museum: Discover the hidden face of Lebanon’s capital city and its unique architecture, life style and cuisine. Learn history while having fun and playing at the National Museum.
- Sayda and Sour: discover living old cities and their traditional crafts and the glory of Rome in Tyr.
- The Shouf: Go hiking under old Cedar trees, learn about Lebanon’s national emblem and discover the 18th and 19th century villages and palaces of Mount Lebanon.
- Rashaya and Hasbaya: discover the first dam ever built in Lebanon and the story behind the independence struggle.
- Baalbeck and ‘Anjar: Visit the biggest roman temple ever built. Visit a traditional mud house in Terbol and Umayyad city.
Basic Workshops: Feel history in your hands
We invite you on a time travel on the path old crafts and techniques, carefully brought back to life by Biladi’s team of experts. Feel history in your hands as you discover how artisans and artists worked to produce day to day necessary objects alongside masterpieces and dazzling jewelry.
- Clay: Discover how and when men first used soil to make objects. Learn the old technique and create your own pottery.
- Mosaic: Discover how to draw in stones, learn roman techniques and designs, be a roman artisan for a day and realize a masterpiece that you would take back home as a souvenir.
- Jewelry: make your own jewelry while inspired by historical patterns and technique
- Role play: Discover history through fashion; wear the clothes of a roman soldier, a knight or an emir, and “live” their story by means of our special role play workshops.
- Write your name in Phoenician: Discover the story that hides behind each letter you use in your daily life. Learn the Phoenician alphabet and write your name with its letters that changed the world for ever.
- Coloring and collage: the joy of coloring and collage with a twist; the themes are historical
Basic fees: Ten U.S.D, includes guiding, basic workshop.
