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Hiking on the Lebanon Mountain Trail


At the Massar el Shouf entrance to the Shouf Cedar Reserve; villages on distant hills are visible through the trees

Hiking through the Shouf Cedar Reserve, close to the Barouk side, facing east towards the Syrian border (the snow-capped mountains in the distance)

Hiking in the Shouf cedar preserve

Cezar’s Guesthouse in Barouk

Breakfast at Cezar’s guesthouse in Barouk

A view of the Shouf Cedar Reserve from across the valley, above Cezar’s farm

Looking south from above Cezar’s farm, with the Shouf Cedar Reserve on the left

The view towards Beirut (the grey spot in the middle) from Soha Village Resort

In the Tannourine nature reserve

Very old cedars at Tannourine

The Cedar reserve above Bsharre

A very old cedar with a complex trunk in the Cedar Forests of God, above Bsharre

Carvings on an ancient dead cedar

Carvings on an ancient dead cedar

Carvings on an ancient dead cedar

A view of the Qadisha Valley from Hadath el Jeddeh

Looking east through the Qadisha Valley

The pine forest east of the hermitage in the Qadisha Valley

Abandoned monastery on the south side of the valley

The monastery of Mar Antonios Qozhaya, on the northern branch of the Qadisha Valley

In the Shouf Cedar Reserve, the tree that served as the model for the flag of Lebanon

In the Shouf Cedar Reserve, looking down towards Barouk

A view from the Horsh Ehden Reserve