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Ancient columns, tourists, and ruins. 1
Ancient ruins with columns and a large stone structure, set against a clear blue sky. 2
Ancient ruins with columns, a stone structure, and tourists. 3
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Ancient stone ruins with columns and an archway. 5
By Lebanon Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £67 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • 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.

Activity location

  • Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

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GUIDED TOUR WITHOUT LUNCH

  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Lunch & Tickets not included: Please note this option does not include the Lunch and tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Guided Tour: Guided Visit to Anjar & Baalbek Temples
Pickup included

Starting time: 08:30
Price details
£66.71 x 1 Adult£66.71
Total
Price is £66.71

GUIDED TOUR + LUNCH

  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Tickets not included: : Please note this option does not include the tickets. This cost goes on your own.
Lunch included: The lunch is included in the price of the tour
Guided Tour: Guided Visit to Anjar and Baalbek Temples
Pickup included

Starting time: 08:30
Price details
£89.19 x 1 Adult£89.19
Total
Price is £89.19

GUIDED TOUR + LUNCH + TICKETS

  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English

Tickets Included: Tickets to Anjar & Temples of Baalbek are included on the price of the tour
Lunch included: The lunch is included in the price of the tour
Guided Tour: Guided Visit to Anjar & Baalbek Temples
Pickup included

Starting time: 08:30
Price details
£112.43 x 1 Adult£112.43
Total
Price is £112.43

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Lunch in a local restaurant (if option selected)
  • Inclusions
    Entry/Admission - Anjar ( if option Selected )
  • Inclusions
    Hotel Pick up & Drop off
  • Inclusions
    Entry/Admission - Temples of Baalbek ( if option Selected )
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Professional Guide
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    Entry/Admission - Chateau Ksara
  • Exclusions
    Food or drinks unless specified

Know before you book

    • Specialised infant seats are available
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Beirut (Pass by)

8:30 AM — Departure from Beirut Your guide meets the group at your hotel and heads east on the Damascus highway — climbing through the Lebanese mountains as the Bekaa Valley opens below.

Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
Anjar — the only surviving Umayyad palatial city in the Levant Built in the early 8th century by Caliph Walid I — the ruler who also commissioned the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem — and abandoned just decades later, never rebuilt. Colonnaded streets dividing the city into four quarters, a grand palace with over 40 towers, a mosque, and bathhouses — all still standing in the Bekaa plain. Most visitors to Lebanon drive straight past without stopping. Your guide makes sure you understand exactly what you are looking at and why it matters.

Stone of the Pregnant Woman

  • 15m
Stone of the Pregnant Woman — the quarry that sets the scale Before the temples — a stop at the ancient Roman quarry to see the Stone of the Pregnant Woman. A single limestone block, 21 metres long, weighing an estimated 1,000 tonnes, still lying where it was cut 2,000 years ago. Never moved. Your guide explains the engineering logic behind it — and why standing next to this unfinished block makes everything at the temple complex make more sense.

Temples of Baalbek

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Baalbek Temple Complex — the greatest Roman temples ever built The Temple of Jupiter stands on Trilithon stones each weighing over 800 tonnes — the largest dressed stones in human history. The Temple of Bacchus is larger than the Parthenon and almost entirely intact — the best-preserved Roman temple in the world. The Temple of Venus completes a complex that took three centuries to build. Your guide covers the full architectural, religious, and historical significance of Baalbek — one of the most extraordinary sites on earth — in the time available, making every minute count.

Baalbek

  • 1h
Lunch in Zahle or Baalbek — included Lebanese mezze and grilled meats — either in Baalbek or at a riverside restaurant in Zahle, Lebanon's celebrated food capital, depending on the day and group preference. Fully included in the tour price.

Chateau Ksara

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket not included
Chateau Ksara — Roman caves, Lebanese wine, founded 1857 Lebanon's oldest winery — founded by Jesuit monks in 1857 — with 2 kilometres of Roman cave cellars discovered beneath it in the 19th century, where wine ages at a naturally constant temperature year-round. The cave tour comes first — ancient tunnels that connect directly to the Roman history you have just seen at Baalbek — then a tasting of Ksara's iconic Cabernet-Syrah blends, crisp Blanc de Blancs, and celebrated Sunset Rosé. Your guide frames the winery visit within the broader Roman storey of the Bekaa Valley.

Beirut (Pass by)

Return to Beirut — approx. 6:00–7:00 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel — the Umayyad, Roman, and Ottoman layers of the Bekaa Valley covered in a single guided day, from a ghost city to the world's greatest temples to ancient wine caves.

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    Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

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    Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

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