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Still vibrant as ever! A place you always remember
Lebanon, a small, roughly rectangular rugged land in the central eastern Levant, has its toes in the warm waters of the Mediterranean and its snowy head high above the clouds. Perhaps no other land has as many contrasts and contradictions. Civilised since before 3,000 BCE by the sea-faring Phoenicians, it was a link between the trade-routes through the eastern hinterland and those that crossed the sea to the west. Home to approximately 3.5 million people of seventeen different faiths, its past has not been tranquil. But today Lebanon is looking to the future: rebuilding its shattered cities and economy; encouraging the rebirth of the banking and business industries that made it a Middle Eastern hub; and welcoming tourists to its resorts, natural attractions, and glittering urban scene.
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