Ancient column heads and lush growth
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Even cactus
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Us at the Mouawad Museum
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Surveillance cameras everywhere
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Extremely large Roman Baths in Beirut, 2 blocks from our hotel
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On the other side of the street from our hotel was a new shopping area filled with high end and designer shops. This was a display of Ducati Motorcycles at a jeweler.
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Definitely NOT a burqua!
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We saw some unique outdoor furniture
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And an arty shopping cart
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Neon lit shelves in a grocery
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Seafood salad
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These little birds are a Lebanese delicacy - Asafeer
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More nice fruit
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And veggies - so neat
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We visited Anjar, an 8th century city on the road from Beirut to Damascus (close to the Syrian border)
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Wide main road into Anjar
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Amazingly fragile looking structures. The wll behind is blocks separated by bricks to make them more earthquake proof
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Reconstructed features
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This looked like some artists conception of structures in the low gravity of Mars, they are so delicate
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They just seem to have no mass
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Our guide, knowledgeable and nice
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The snow covered western mountains. If you look closely you can see hunderds of houses in the town of Anjar and the herd of sheep.
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A mosque in Baalbeck, a monument to someone, with a gold dome
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Baalbek had 3 temples, one to Venus, the least well preserved, Jupiter, the largest and Bacchus, the best preserved.
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The temple to Venus is the least well preserved
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Entrance to the temple of Jupiter
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In the courtyard
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Baalbek is enormous - the building of this complex must have rivaled the pyramids. See http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_baalbek_1.htm
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Courtyard of the Jupiter Temple. A church was built here in the Middle Ages
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Looking from the Jupiter Temple courtyard toward the Bacchus Temple
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This is one side of the Jupiter Temple
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Stairs to the Jupiter Temple
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These 3 photos show the Jupiter Temple courtyard
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