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Anjar, Baalbek & Ksara Winery Small-Group Tour | Lunch Included

By Beirut Daily Tours
10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is CHF 72 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

The Bekaa Valley is Lebanon's most historically dense day trip from Beirut — and most people only scratch the surface of it. This guided small-group tour does it properly: a ghost city that most tour buses drive straight past, the greatest Roman temples ever built with a guide who actually explains what you are looking at, and 2 kilometres of Roman wine caves beneath Lebanon's oldest winery. Three stops, three completely different chapters of the same valley, one included lunch.
Anjar — the only surviving Umayyad palatial city in the Levant, built by Caliph Walid I and abandoned within decades. Baalbek — a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the Temple of Bacchus is larger than the Parthenon. Ksara — founded by Jesuits in 1857, with Roman cave cellars that connect the afternoon directly back to the morning. Your guide makes the connections that turn three impressive stops into one coherent storey.

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 9 hours9h
    9h
  • 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

Language options: English
Starting time: 08:30
Price details
CHF 71.86 x 1 AdultCHF 71.86
Total
Price is CHF 71.86
Until Tue, 30 Jun

GUIDED TOUR + LUNCH

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • 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 & Baalbek Temples
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 08:30
Price details
CHF 96.08 x 1 AdultCHF 96.08
Total
Price is CHF 96.08
Until Tue, 30 Jun

GUIDED TOUR + LUNCH + TICKETS

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • 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 of Anjar & Baalbek Temples
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 08:30
Price details
CHF 121.11 x 1 AdultCHF 121.11
Total
Price is CHF 121.11
Until Tue, 30 Jun
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lunch in a local restaurant (if option selected)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Entry/Admission - Anjar ( if option Selected )
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Entry/Admission - Temples of Baalbek ( if option Selected )
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Full guided exploration of Baalbek & Anjar
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professional expert guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge (optional)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food or drinks unless specified

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Beirut (Pass by)

8:30 AM — Hotel pickup Your guide meets the group at your Beirut hotel and heads east on the Damascus highway — over the Lebanese mountains and down into the Bekaa Valley. Anjar is about an hour away.

Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
Anjar — the Umayyad city nobody puts on their list Built in the early 8th century by Caliph Walid I — the ruler who also commissioned the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus — and abandoned just decades later, never reoccupied. Colonnaded streets, a palace with over 40 towers, a mosque, bathhouses — all still standing. The only surviving example of a complete Umayyad palatial city in the entire Levant, and one of the most underrated archaeological sites in the Middle East. Most tour groups skip it. Your guide makes sure you understand exactly why they are wrong to.

Stone of the Pregnant Woman

  • 15m
Stone of the Pregnant Woman — scale check before the temples A single limestone block, 21 metres long, weighing 1,000 tonnes, cut 2,000 years ago and never moved. Still in the quarry where it was abandoned. Your guide explains why it is here — and why standing next to it recalibrates your sense of what is waiting at the temple complex five minutes ahead.

Temples of Baalbek

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Baalbek Temple Complex — the guide earns their fee here The Temple of Jupiter on Trilithon stones each weighing over 800 tonnes — the largest dressed stones in human history. The Temple of Bacchus, larger than the Parthenon, almost entirely intact, the best-preserved Roman temple on earth. The Temple of Venus completing a complex that took three centuries. Without a guide, Baalbek is overwhelming. With the right one, it becomes the most memorable site you visit in Lebanon. Your guide covers the architectural, religious, and historical layers of Baalbek in a way that makes every column and every courtyard make sense.

Zahle

  • 1h
Lunch in Zahle or Baalbek — included Lebanese mezze and grilled meats — either in Baalbek or at the riverside restaurant terraces of Zahle, Lebanon's most celebrated food destination, depending on timing and group preference. Fully included.

Chateau Ksara

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Chateau Ksara — the Roman caves beneath Lebanon's oldest winery Founded by Jesuit monks in 1857 above 2 kilometres of Roman cave cellars — the same Roman civilisation you spent the morning exploring at Baalbek, now underground and ageing wine. The cave tour comes first — ancient tunnels at a naturally constant temperature year-round — then a tasting of Ksara's Cabernet-Syrah blends, Blanc de Blancs, and Sunset Rosé. Your guide connects the dots between Baalbek and Ksara in a way that makes the afternoon feel like a continuation rather than a different stop entirely.

Beirut (Pass by)

Return to Beirut — approx. 6:00–7:00 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel. A ghost city, the world's greatest Roman temples, and ancient wine caves — the Bekaa done properly.

Location

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    Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

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    Umayyad Ruins of Aanjar
    • Anjar, Lebanon

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