City of the Sun (Heliopolis)

Middle East » Lebanon » Baalbek
August 6th 2007

Published: December 22nd 2007

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. -Kahlil Gibran My plan was to transit through Lebanon to get to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, but as usual, my plans changed and I decided to just stay in Lebanon. I just kept my fingers crossed that the consequences of an expired visa wouldn't be too serious. Everything always seemed to work itself out, so my pla... Read Full Entry

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Grace Choe

Waderlusting

Life is good! I've fallen into a cycle of working and traveling.. I'm now in South America. I'm going to wander until my money runs out, and my plans keep changing every 5 minutes so there's no point of posting my itinerary on here anymore. Join me in my travels by adding your details to the 'subscribe' button below! “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” - Henry Miller ... full info

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Monumental staircase leading to the Temple of Bacchus

Baalbek

Jupiter's columns

Bacchus' columns

Bacchus' columns and column top

Inside the wine god's temple

plenty of room for vino parties

Chi looks so small!

Or the Bacchus Temple is just really massive

Amazing details still preserved

Temple of Bacchus survived through the centuries

Column galore!

Hi Chi!

Inside the Temple of Bacchus

Sun setting...

Baalbek

Mr. Hezbollah

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah smiling down on Baalbek town

Lonesome souqs

Al Khayam Restaurant

I still dream of you....!

shwarma, fattoush and grape leaves

not a fan of the grape leaves, though they were pretty to look at

The twins and I with the best pizza-esque snack!

Right on the Lebanon/Syria border... with the yellow awning!

Came back just for this!

While crossing back to Syria, I ran over to the hidden snack shop (that only sells this pizza thing) and they remembered me from the first time I ate there while entering Lebanon. They had closed shop, but kindly restarted the oven and took out the ingredients to make one for me after they saw how bummed I was to miss a final taste of their house special! They were so nice! I wonder if they will still be there years from now when I hopefully return!!!

25th December 2007

meghan
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looks like athens
hi there, really really nice photos girl...for a mo i thought you were in Athens...really cool

25th August 2008

phaedrus
Felix San Roque

Magic Hour
Beautiful colors in the light of the magic hour. I would guess between 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

27th September 2010

ali
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good life for full time
hi . i am from iran . i see yor photo in "City of the Sun (Heliopolis) " and i want to travel to this city ................by

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