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Lebanon Nature Reserves Are Open For Free This Sunday

By on March 8, 2019 in Culture, Lebanon

Minister of Environment Fadi Jreissati announced earlier this week that Lebanon’s nature reserves will be open for free to the public on Sunday March 10th for the occation of the National Day for Nature reserves.

Access to the nature reserves isn’t much anyway, as I recall paying around 5,000L.L when I went to Arz El Shouf few years ago, but the announcement comes as a reminder for us all to actually go and learn about the value of these reserve with all the biological diversity they encompass.

Here’s a list of the available nature reserves in Lebanon from Wikipedia and new other sources:

  • Ehden Forest
  • Nakheel Islands
  • Cedars of Tannourine Forest
  • Chnaneer
  • Arz Jaj
  • Bentael natural reserve.
  • Al Yammouna
  • Arz El Chouf
  • Tyre coast
  • Houjeir Valley
  • Karm Shobat
  • Nature reserves of Ramiyah, Kafra, Beit Leef and Dibil.

Photos via lebanontraveler.com

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Shouf Cedar Reserve

By on September 8, 2011 in Lebanon

I’ve always heard people talking about the Shouf cedar reserve, but I never knew it was really that nice until I visited it last weekend thanks to a couple of friends.

We were originally planning a visit to Maaser El-Shouf village but then got tempted to continue further to the cedar reserve, the largest nature reserve in Lebanon containing 25% of the country’s cedars, and to our luck there was some festival ongoing in Maaser and shuttle service to and from the reserve was offered for free.

Entrance tickets are at 5,000L.L, and once you’re inside you’ll get to choose among 3 hiking paths with different lengths and each showing you different parts of the reserve. We chose the shortest one, a 1.2Km walk that took around 25-30 minutes to complete with awesome views and feel. Definitely worth a visit especially if you’re showing some tourists around the country.

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