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Friday, March 23, 2012

Tyre - Lebanon

On our first day at Lebanon our initial target was to go to the Beiddettin Palace on the Chouf mountains. However snow didnt let us this palace of Druzes. So we headed to the city of Tyre, 80 km south of Beirut. Tyre is an ancient Phenician city and considered as the legendary birthplace of Europa.

According to Herodotus, city was founded around 2750 BC and the Tyrian merchants were the first to navigate in the Mediterranean and established trading colonies.It has always been a rich city. We have visited the Al Bass site to see the beautiful Roman ruins.

Lübnan'daki ilk günümüzde, ilk hedefimiz Chouf dağlarındaki Dürzi sarayı Beiddettin'i ziyaret etmekti ancak kar yüzünden yollar kapalı olunca, Beyrut'un 80 km güneyinde yer alan Sur kentine gittik. Sur, mitolojide Avrupa'nın doğduğu yer kabul edilen eski bir Fenike şehri.


Heradot'a göre şehir MÖ 2750 kurulmuş ve Sur'lu tüccarlar tarihte Akdeniz'e ilk açılıp ticaret kolonileri kurmakla ünlenmişler. Aşağıdaki fotoğraflar Al Bass alanındaki eski Roma şehrinden..  




One of the most interesting thing for us here was to see the remains of the old Hijaz railway built during the Ottoman time..It was passing right thru the antic city..

Burada bizim için ilginç olan bir şey de eski Hicaz demiryolunun bir kısmını görmekti. Antik şehri tam ortasından yarıp geçiyordu. 
Then we wandered in the streets of Tyre.
Daha sonra Sur şehrinin sokaklarında dolandık..






It was interesting to see the pirate DVDs of famous Turkish soap operas..
Bizim diziler oralarda da revaçta..
  
Then we went to the fishing harbour located in the Christian section of the town to eat at the restaurant Le Phenician which Lonely Planet suggested highly. They were right, best food we tasted in Lebanon. I still dream about their delicious fish carpaccio.

Daha sonra öğle yemeği için şehrin Hristiyan kesimindeki balıkçı limanında bulunan ve Lonely Planet'ın tavsiye ettiği Le Phenician restaurant'a gittik. Lonely Planet haklıymış, Lübnan'da yediğimiz en iyi yemeği orada yedik.Enfes balık karpaçyolarının tadı damağımda kaldı..





Nowadays beautiful spring weather, sunshine, blooming flowers, blue Mediterranean are my driving forces to take tons of photos. Unfortunately I am not able to put most of them here,to the blog.. Why dont you join me in facebook to take a look to the pages of my Turquoise Diaries..

Bu sıralar baharın güzel havaları, parıldayan güneş, renk renk çiçekler ve masmavi Akdeniz tonlarca fotoğraf çekmeme neden oluyor, ancak hepsini burada yayınlıyamıyorum. Turkuaz Günlüklerin sayfalarına facebook'ta bir göz atmaya ne dersiniz??



9 comments:

  1. thanks for this trip! wonderful archeological site!


    Life and travelling
    Cooking

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  2. Beautiful. Mom lives all that info and different culture stuff
    Benny & Lily

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  3. The ancient city is just fabulous and the cat on this plate, well, this shot could win in a competition.

    Greetings,
    Filip

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  4. I will join you In the meantime, enjoyed this visit to Lebanon. I am so thankful for those of you that bring me the world.

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  5. Wonderful presentation and photos! I like this post.

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  6. What a beautiful ancient city! And love the kitty cat in the marketplace!

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  7. Such an incredibly compelling part of the world.

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  8. Wonderful photos, Aysegul, I enjoyed the tour!

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