Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love: Lebanon

Time flies! Time flies! We are now in May. I am still feeling that I just celebrated Chinese New Year last month. Maybe I miss my parents too much, keep thinking the good time we had when I was in Sandakan :)

Well, I had a good time last weekend too. We went to Beirut, the city of Lebanon for a weekend getaway. We flew to Beirut on Thursday night and returned on Saturday night. Though we had 2 full days to go around Beirut, we still missed some of the interesting places. We only managed to visit those main attraction places. Anyway, the most important is we did enjoy our trip ;)

Let me start introducing Beirut to you from my pictures. Isn't that will be more interesting rather than lenghty of words?

Mohammad al-Amin mosque in downtown. Once you reach downtown, the first thing that attract your sight will be this mosque. It's like glow in the dark!

Another special that I noticed, there is a church beside the mosque. This church known as The Maronite Cathederal of St.George.

Here is the members of the trip. Picture taken at the downtown, clock tower :)

Souvenier time at the downtown. You can find out that most of the souveniers related to Christianity. You will not feel that you are in a muslim country at all~

The next day, on our way to Jeita Grotto. Nice view can be spotted everywhere!

Our rented car, Renault.

We reached Jeita Grotto. Queued for about 30 minutes for the tickets. No pictures allow in the cave, thus we only took pictures outside the cave.

Jeita Grotto is one of the 28 finalists in a global competition to find the new 7 Wonders of Nature. The most dramatic sight will be the yawning canyons and sink holes.

After Grotto, we continue our trip to the ski centre. Our intention is to see ice rather than ski. As winter was over for a couple of months, we only could see little ice at the mountains.

We found ice at the roadside :) Weather was around 10 celcius.

4 of us made a snow man! I was the camera man.

Next, we went to visit Lady Harissa.

At night, we went to the Casino du Liban. Alberto and hubbie tried their luck in the casino while Meng Chin and I had our supper at the cafe. Hubbie won USD100 from the casino! We went home around 2 am and we spent the whole Saturday visit the main attraction place of Lebanon,Baalbek.