The Bekaa Valley delivers three completely different historical registers in a single day — and this guided small-group tour covers all of them. Anjar: the only surviving Umayyad palatial city in the Levant, built and abandoned in the 8th century and never reoccupied. Baalbek: a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the Romans built temples on a scale that has never been equalled. Ksara: Lebanon's oldest winery, founded by Jesuits in 1857, with 2 kilometres of Roman cave cellars beneath it. Lunch and all entrance tickets included.
Your guide connects the three stops into a single coherent narrative — Umayyad city-planning, Roman engineering at its most ambitious, and a winery that has been producing Lebanese wine since the Ottoman era. The Stone of the Pregnant Woman — a 1,000-tonne Roman quarry block abandoned 2,000 years ago — sets the scale before you even enter the temple complex.