These 3 photos show the Jupiter Temple courtyard
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These 3 photos show the Jupiter Temple courtyard
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Columns from the Jupiter Temple. Note the size of the people!
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Us with the Bacchus Temple
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Columns of the Jupiter Temple. Note no flutes on the columns but Corinthian capitals
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Remains of columns and the snow covered mountains
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These are the biggest columns I have ever seen!
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The Temple of Bacchus is one of the best preserved
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Inside the Temple of Bacchus
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This is much smaller than the Temple of Jupiter but still pretty darned big!
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There is some controversy over who is depicted here - maybe Cleopatra? Note the snake over her.
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Little remains of the giant Jupiter Temple
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Entry to the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
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Elegant hillside hotel in Ksara
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Lunch in Ksara
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Lady making a Lebanese bread called marqooq. She flattens it with a pillow.
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Hookahs are a popular pastime
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US influence is everywhere
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Caves of Ksara are now a winery
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I remember when….
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Kick up your heels - or toes - and it could hurt
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Claes Oldenberg influenced display
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Mercury's shoes?
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This is known as the whale of Beirut, an unfinished building that looks like a whale from the side
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Beirut still shows the scars of the civil war
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Two famous rocks in the Mediteranean - photo taken from our lunch table
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We visited an amazing cave complex in Jeita, but no photos were allowed in the caves. See http://www.jeitagrotto.com/
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Lebanon is very hilly along the coast so they terrace for agriculture
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Riding cable cars at the Jeita caverns
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Jeita has lots of strange sculpture
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Like this giant's foot
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Or this modeled on Greek friezes
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Gears on the dam on the river flowing out of the cave
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