I’M NOT SURE WHEN I HAD THE BRIGHT IDEA OF WALKING FROM ONE END OF LEBANON TO THE OTHER… 470 kilometres long, the Lebanon Mountain Trail runs from Marjayoun, a sleepy town in formerly Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon that looks over a vertiginous escarpment...
Here is an invitation to celebrate Spring: let’s HIKE Lebanon MountainTrail, in Owen Sound North of Toronto, Saturday April 23rd, 2016. The hike will be in celebration of the friendship between Lebanon Mountain Trail and the Bruce Trail in Ontario, see links and...
By Dan Milner Adventure Tourism returns to Lebanon (…) It was a journey of hopes, doubts, anxieties and realizations, starting with a photo hanging in a Lebanese restaurant and ending with a push of my pedals in a country that–at least for most of my life–has...
It was a pleasantly warm, partly cloudy day as Gilbert Moukheiber and I pulled off the road at a wayside to examine more closely the outskirts of the village of Baskinta, bordering the prospective route of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Gilbert expressed concern, and I...
By Lisa Robbins I arrived in Beirut three days before the start of my month-long hike in the mountains of Lebanon, the eastern Mediterranean nation bordered by Israel and Syria. I wanted to explore Beirut before heading off into the countryside, but I knew no one and...
For centuries, Lebanon has lured travellers of all kinds, from literary icons to artists and photographers, and the country’s mountain ranges have proved especially appealing. The french poet Alphone de Lamartine, who toured the region between 1832 and 1833,...
