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By Beirut Trip
Free cancellation available
Price is RM 612 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Beirut in four hours — properly. This private half-day tour hits the city's ten most essential landmarks back to back, with a knowledgeable driver who actually knows the stories behind what you are looking at. No filler, no wasted time, back at your hotel before noon with the whole afternoon free.
    Pigeon Rocks. Zaitunay Bay. The Corniche. Martyrs' Square where revolutions happened. A grand mosque and an ancient cathedral sharing the same square. Roman baths buried in the middle of a modern city. The bullet-riddled Holiday Inn facade that Lebanon deliberately never repaired. Ten stops, four hours, one city that has been destroyed and rebuilt so many times that even its ruins have ruins — and somehow still manages to be one of the most alive places in the Middle East.

Activity location

  • Pigeon Rocks in Raouche
    • Raouché
    • Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Pigeon Rocks in Raouche
    • Raouché
    • Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon

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PRIVATE TOUR

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English

Lunch not included: : Lunch not included: Please note this option does not include the Lunch. This cost goes on your own.
Duration: 5 hours
Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00
Price details
RM 612.23 x 1 AdultRM 612.23
Total
Price is RM 612.23

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Holiday Inn Civil War facade photo stop
  • Inclusions
    Knowledgeable English-speaking driver
  • Inclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
  • Inclusions
    Private air-conditioned vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Lunch
  • Exclusions
    Gratuities (optional)

Know before you book

    • Specialized infant seats are available
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Beirut (Pass by)

9:00 AM — Hotel pickup Your driver meets you at your hotel and the tour starts immediately — Pigeon Rocks is five minutes away.

Pigeon Rocks in Raouche

  • 15m
Pigeon Rocks — Beirut's most photographed landmark Two massive limestone formations rising from the Mediterranean off the Raouche coast — the image that appears on more Beirut postcards, Instagram posts, and travel articles than anything else in the city. See them in person and understand why. Your driver shares the geology and the legends before heading along the seafront.

Zaitunay Bay

  • 15m
Zaitunay Bay — Beirut's waterfront marina A quick stop at Beirut's sleek marina — luxury yachts, modern architecture, and waterfront restaurants that represent the cosmopolitan, resilient side of a city that keeps rebuilding itself. Good photo stop and a glimpse of the Beirut that visitors often do not expect to find.

Martyr's Square

  • 15m
Martyrs' Square — where Lebanon's revolutions happened Stand in the square that has witnessed more Lebanese history than anywhere else — the 1916 Ottoman executions that gave it its name, the 2005 Cedar Revolution that ended Syrian occupation, and the 2019 uprising that shook the entire political establishment. Your driver explains the square's full story — a public space that has absorbed the anger, grief, and hope of generations of Beirutis.

Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque

  • 30m
Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque & Saint George Cathedral The grand Blue Mosque completed in 2008 and the ancient Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George stand metres apart on the same square — a mosque and a cathedral sharing the same skyline in a city that has spent centuries trying to make that coexistence work. Your driver explains why this image matters so much to Lebanese identity — and what it looks like when it does and does not hold together.

Place de l'Etoile

  • 15m
Place de l'Étoile & Beirut Souks The elegant French Mandate downtown star-shaped square with its iconic clock tower and Lebanese Parliament buildings — French Haussmann, Ottoman, and Levantine architecture layered in a single block. Then into the Beirut Souks, where glass floors reveal Phoenician, Hellenistic, and Roman archaeological remains beneath your feet as you walk through a post-war shopping district built deliberately over its own ancient marketplace.

Roman Baths

  • 15m
Roman Baths — 3rd-century ruins in the city centre A well-preserved Roman bath complex dating to the 3rd century AD standing in the open air of downtown Beirut — because of course there are Roman ruins in the middle of the city. Beirut has been lived in continuously for over 5,000 years and its ruins are everywhere once you know where to look. Your driver puts them in context: a city that has been destroyed and rebuilt so many times that even its ruins have ruins.

InterContinental Phoenicia Beirut by IHG

  • 15m
Holiday Inn — the bullet holes that nobody fixed The most powerful five-minute stop in Beirut. The old Holiday Inn hotel tower stands with its facade still riddled with Civil War bullet holes and shell damage — deliberately unrepaired, kept exactly as the war left it, a 26-storey reminder in the middle of downtown Beirut of the conflict that shaped everything about this city. Photo stop. Your driver tells you what happened here and why Lebanon decided to leave it standing.

Beirut (Pass by)

Return to hotel — approx. 1:00 PM Drop-off at your hotel — Beirut's ten essential landmarks ticked off, afternoon completely free, and a much better understanding of a city that rewards everyone who takes the time to actually look at it.

Location

Activity location

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    Pigeon Rocks in Raouche
    • Raouché
    • Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Pigeon Rocks in Raouche
    • Raouché
    • Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon

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