Beirut and Baalbek

It's my fourth full day in Beirut. I have to say we've seen a lot, learned a lot, but it has also been very challenging. Not sure if all the areas that have somewhat resently suffered a civil war feel the same, but there is still a due amount of chaos and desttrustion in the air in spiritual level, and it took some time to get on top of that.

Anyway, we travelled to Baalbek, other side of Lebanon to east, where an ancient city lies in Beqaa valley. There was the biggest temple of Roman empire, dedicated to Baal and then during the Roman empire to Venus and a famous place of temple prostitution and stuff. It's quite famous because it has survived amazingly well. So, in a way this is in line with my feelings before the travel, that there are some important roots of Humanism here, althought since those days the temple has been used as a church and now the area is Shiite muslim.It was quite interesting to vosot this area,to get to see some local village life. Outside the site men were selling us Hezbollah T-shirts (sorry guys if you wanted one as a souvenier, I didnt dare to buy one).It was definately worth going there to see the mountains and the beautiful valley with plenty of vineries.

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[laura]

how cool would that kind of a souvenir be??! :)