Are you Going to Visit Lebanon this Summer???

If NO,Is there anyone You know,Coming to Lebanon this Summer???

I'm 70% Going to Lebanon this Summer,MY MOM is 100% Going to Lebanon.

Im not going to Lebanon this year ......

I am!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D Can't wait!!

Am leaving Doha on June 29, probably change it to 28... and coming back on August the 12th

:D:D:D:D

I'll try to convince my boss to take a month off :D Then i can go this summer :)

yous are all so lucky that you's are all going ! , i havent been in three years !

Not going to Lebanon this summer, am going to Kigali !!

^^ Why Exactly Can't you Go,Jayme???

I wish:(

^^ Why Exactly Can't you Go,Jayme???

I dont have a large Break in the Middle of Year and I have school
My dad is buying me a car
im saving up for another Holiday with my friends

^^ Aha

I wish:(

lol,maybe one day,but still the way is toooooooooooooooo long

I will be there...

lol,maybe one day,but still the way is toooooooooooooooo long

who knows;)
I found some good way to go to Beirut

but it will cost too much:D
Hassouna send me some money:D

^^ Wouldnt you be a little scared of getting caught by authorities?

lol Ramzi, Kigali?? you going to see the gorilla's in Rwanda :D yalla have fun everybody, hopefully this year we see a prosperous Lebanon and nothing will prevent it from never rising!
Oh im going to Australia (Gold coast) lol

^^ Wouldnt you be a little scared of getting caught by authorities?

I,m not so stupid;)

give me 2,500$ and I'll come next month to Beirut;)

^^ Wouldnt you be a little scared of getting caught by authorities?

If He goes with a non-israeli,israeli stamp-free passport,,then he faces no problem :)

^^ Why so much?!

If He goes with a non-israeli,israeli stamp-free passport,,then he faces no problem :)

Yes, but he needs a fake name and needs to be VERY careful not being outted...

lol Ramzi, Kigali?? you going to see the gorilla's in Rwanda :D yalla have fun everybody, hopefully this year we see a prosperous Lebanon and nothing will prevent it from never rising!
Oh im going to Australia (Gold coast) lol

I envy you ,Unless i go to lebanon :P

Yes, but he needs a fake name and needs to be VERY careful not being outted...
Why fake name?????Jews Can enter lebanon

Yes, but he needs a fake name and needs to be VERY careful not being outted...

my lastname is german sounded (Aisenstein or Eisenstein as u want)
I can take a german or lithuanian passport;)

why so much money?
from Israel to Lithuania (600$) from Lithuania to other country dunno 400$ and from there to Lebanon lets say 500$ (its 1500$)+money for staying in this 3 countries)

^^ thats the fun part ! legal is boring illgeal is fun ! jkz

yeah but not so fun for ur pocket:D

Many people from Israel can get in to Lebanon because the majority of Israel population deserves to European passport.

Btw, according to the Israeli law, If an Israeli get into an enemy country such as Syria and Lebanon he will loose his Israeli citizenship:ohno: .

^^ I see
lol,there will never be peace between the two countries with such mentalities ruling both countries :D

Btw, according to the Israeli law, If an Israeli get into an enemy country such as Syria and Lebanon he will loose his Israeli citizenship:ohno: .


thats if u're going with israeli citizenship...

I think the peace will come after Israel and the Palestinians will end the conflict between them.

thats if u're going with israeli citizenship...
I don't think so.
If the Israeli authorities discover that an Israeli have been there, his citizenship will be taken from him.

many israelis went there...btw Iraq became a hot spot for many israelis:D

^^ that makes me fear israelis more,they really want GREATER ISRAEL as a reality.Hope not all of them though,koz this way,Wars are not gonna stop.

huh????u're funny
they are going there for family issues...to see where their parents lived et.c..

^^ HOPE SO :)
Anyway,this thread is about lebanon and people Going there this summer :)

Hassoun, nobody wants GREATER ISRAEL.. only insane people believe in that, most of those people live in the settlements in the most dangerous places at the West bank such as Hebron. those people is such a minority in Israel that they even didn't get 1 seat at the Israeli parliament.
Most of the people in Israel want peace and normalization.

^^ Hope so

my lastname is german sounded (Aisenstein or Eisenstein as u want)
I can take a german or lithuanian passport;)

why so much money?
from Israel to Lithuania (600$) from Lithuania to other country dunno 400$ and from there to Lebanon lets say 500$ (its 1500$)+money for staying in this 3 countries)

Come to Hungary, much cheaper, you can see Budapest atleast also, and we have direct flights to Beirut (Malév - Hungarian Airlines).. !

i most probably will go to leb my passport is expiring lol and i need the new blue one the hoes in milan are not issueing them yet! and i usually take malév to beirut!

Come to Hungary, much cheaper, you can see Budapest atleast also, and we have direct flights to Beirut (Malév - Hungarian Airlines).. !

I cant get a hungarian citizenship

i most probably will go to leb my passport is expiring lol and i need the new blue one the hoes in milan are not issueing them yet! and i usually take malév to beirut!

why dont you fly MEA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish i can fly with MEA.

why shud i fly mea when it costs more (almost double) and i have to go all the way to milan, when i can directly fly from venice (via budapest) to beirut

I cant get a hungarian citizenship

why do you need that?

why shud i fly mea when it costs more (almost double) and i have to go all the way to milan, when i can directly fly from venice (via budapest) to beirut
U have a point :)

why shud i fly mea when it costs more (almost double) and i have to go all the way to milan, when i can directly fly from venice (via budapest) to beirut

500 $ or so isnt that much ! , i spend 2000 to go to Lebanon ( airfares)

why do you need that?

so he can enter Lebanon, he cant enter with his Israeli citizen

lol,noooooooo Bikes meant why zohar needs a hungarian citizenship to go to Beirut from Budapest.He knows that Zohar can't enter lebanon with the israeli passport.He already knows this :)It's just that Zohar Missunderstood Bike's idea by getting to beirut via budapest :)

^^ but doesnt Zohar need to go to Lithuania to get his passport, if i remember correctly thats what he told me

yes,right

500 $ or so isnt that much ! , i spend 2000 to go to Lebanon ( airfares)

ur going from australia to lebanon and god knows how long that flight is, it's 4 hours from italy to lebanon...

Jayme shouldnt it be more??? mine is 2500$ from Ottawa to Beirut and I think Australia has a longer distance between that country and Lebanon

nah, in 2004 i payed 1800 last year my dad was going to pay $2000
it takes around 18 hours for me, this year im not sure how much

^^ but doesnt Zohar need to go to Lithuania to get his passport, if i remember correctly thats what he told me

now i understand!

but anyway people, they can't change the place of birth on the passport which may cause a problem!

Hmmm there is a chance i might go to Beirut this year, via Tehran as i will be going there for sure

Anyone here live in Beirut? :D

edit .

I thought it was dangerous to vist Lebanon how come you guys are still going back?

I would love to go this summer...Last time I was there was in Sept. '03 so it's been a while. I had actually purchased my ticket last year ONE DAY before the war broke out and so I obviously had to cancel that. Hopefully nothing crazy happens this summer and I can go...
I would love to meet up with people from this forum if we are there at the same time!

As for the ticket prices, I paid US$2,100 on my last trip there and last year, the "cheapest" ticket that I could find was 2200 from Houston. This year, it looks like it's going to be even more. :ohno:

The thing with the ticket prices to Beirut is that there is always such high demmand (espcially from the Americas and Australia) that the airlines carriers know they can charge pretty much whatever they want, and people will pay.
Right befoere the war last year, there were about 45 airlines serving Beirut and there was still a high demmand to fly into BEY!

Hope to go there this summer and see some of you folks out there!

Cheers,
TangoLima

I thought it was dangerous to vist Lebanon how come you guys are still going back?


No, its not dangerous at all...the war ended in August!

You should come!

yea the price is not an issue though, flights from tehran shouldnt cost to much i presume

Inshallah i really hope that i go

I thought it was dangerous to vist Lebanon how come you guys are still going back?

say me a place which is safe for 100%

say me a place which is safe for 100%

No such place exists :)

I might visit Beirut soon, I'm going to Europe for the summer (maybe), and there's a possibility that I might be able to grab some tickets to Beirut while there.

Ok,Coooooooool

We should meet up there ;) that's gonna be sooooooooo much fun,and we make a thread about it :D

YA'LL GO WHEN I DONT GO EHHHH, :bash:

^^ We will Go next year too Nchalla :)

I have a Holiday planed allready going to Queenland , September, Nadini knows that place... going with a group of friends and again i have to plan everything like allways ! haha going to travel agent book etc
trying to look for a good hotel in Surfers Paradise !

No, its not dangerous at all...the war ended in August!

You should come!

Beirut! we all thought it was like that until July 11th 2006....then July 12th BOOM!!! u don't know what could happen....this country has become so unpredictable it's scary

Ok,Coooooooool

We should meet up there ;) that's gonna be sooooooooo much fun,and we make a thread about it :D


that would be weird !!!!!!!!

Beirut! we all thought it was like that until July 11th 2006....then July 12th BOOM!!! u don't know what could happen....this country has become so unpredictable it's scary

I know, but what are the chances such a thing could happen again? Especially now after Paris III and the UNIFIL's large presence there.

Anyway, lets stay positive and everything will be fine this summer...besides you arent helping tourism with that mindset!

I know, but what are the chances such a thing could happen again? Especially now after Paris III and the UNIFIL's large presence there.

Anyway, lets stay positive and everything will be fine this summer...besides you arent helping tourism with that mindset!

I agree,the chances of bad things happening this summer are ZERO .

hrmm 1 ^^ or 1.5 or 0.5

Beirut! we all thought it was like that until July 11th 2006....then July 12th BOOM!!! u don't know what could happen....this country has become so unpredictable it's scary

u can seat in Venice and suddenly there is an earthquake...Every place is unpredictable!!!

lol You can Sit in Melbourne there could be a drought ! oh wait there is allready one ....

or you could sit pretty much anywhere on the east coast this weekend and enjoy the floods :P

yeah...enjoy..LOL:D

There's nothing like watching a shed float down an alley :D so this will be thoroughly enjoyed :D

I think Lebanon is safe now, because there are cops everywhere on the street..
Although Downtown is almost dead, I hear Verdun area is now full of people.

Hamra was okay but not so attractive to me.
I recommend u go out of Beirut and visit other cities too, such as Tripoli, Jounieh, Batroun, etc.
They have a good night life and real good old part of Lebanon.

I'll be in Beirut all of June & July.. I'm new to Lebanon, anyone willing to show me around?

wow 2 months!! lucky u !! why are u going there for so much time?

im going to convice to My parents to letting me go ! i have a 4 week break in the Middle of The Year, i wanna stay for 6 weeks like i normally do.

Fox Tail- what did you think of Batourn ?

im going to convice to My parents to letting me go ! i have a 4 week break in the Middle of The Year, i wanna stay for 6 weeks like i normally do.

Fox Tail- what did you think of Batourn ?

I have only been to Batroun once,
and it was a beautiful Christian-style town with lots of old architecture.
There is also a beautiful small castle.

It represents real good part of Lebanon and I liked it!

Although I went there in daytime
it would be nicer to go at night.

I hear there is a good night club called "Taiga" there
and many famous singers visit it there.

Anyway, I wish you a good vacation in Lebanon!

^^ Im from the Batroun area ! im gladd you liked it, i herd its changed since i was last there

that castle is just down the Hill from the Town im from right next to the freeway , if anyone looks up there is a church with na large cross over looking the looking the freeway from there is great views ,

Oh, are you from Batroun area, Jayme?
What a lucky guy..you are from such a beautiful place...

I have to add that people in Batroun were as beautiful as people in Zahle :)

guys whats the latest with lebanon tourism figures since last summer war is it pikcing up?


anyone got any recent pictures?

No its dwn like 30% first quarter

No its dwn like 30% first quarter

oh thats a shame hope it picks up by next year

So who's plans have changed due to the recent events?

^^Am still going.

^^My mom was supposed to go in july will go next week ;)

^^ Well we are not affraid, and I think no Lebanese has to cancel any trip to Leb!!!!!!!!!! I heard that lots of people from Qatar cancelled their trips :(

well i think its natural to cancel because it just means no where is safe, unfortunatly thats the way most tourists would think :ohno:

if i was planing to go this year i wouldnt Cancel ^^ i wish i was going ! .... maybe next year :)

if i was planing to go this year i wouldnt Cancel ^^ i wish i was going ! .... maybe next year :)

i think people from middleast dont bother too much but europeans do very much

if you tell someone here that you are going to lebanon or you have been there they look at you and think you crazy!!! cus here because of the media everyone thinks that lebanon is in civil war!:ohno:

today ^^ at my lecture i was i telling my friend that i want to go to Lebanon this year the others thought i was mad for thinking to go Lebanon... i was like , hrmmmm

^^My mom was supposed to go in july will go next week ;)

Hey hassoun itz cool that you are going in a week, i am leaving on june 28, i love lebanon

Are you kidding me I'll runaway from the ME this summer to home in France.

^^ Where are you now and why would you run away?

^^ I work in KSA. So, now you know why I wanna runaway in summer.

i'm goin to beirut on the 29th of june! i hope the situation will get better tho...i had to be evacuated last summer :( .

Hey hassoun itz cool that you are going in a week, i am leaving on june 28, i love lebanon
where r u from ? :)

i know heaps of people are going this summer ...

My mom is in Beirut while we r talking now ;)

i'm goin to beirut on the 29th of june! i hope the situation will get better tho...i had to be evacuated last summer :( .

I was evacuated too, what ship were you on?

british war ship. you?

^^ Ohh then we werent on the same ship, I was on an Egyptian-Turkish ferry.

i was on the queen mary...

was it the ferry where we had to sleep on the green painted ground?
I was in that one... 22 hours trip where you thought to yourself if jumping in the water gave you a higher chance at surviving the trip LOL... I have had boat phobia since...:nuts:

^^ The color of the deck was light blue, but the rest of your description is about right lol!

can I ask you in which countrys?
Turkey, Cyprus...?
and what happend then?

^^ Some went to Turkey, some went to Cyprus and then we stayed there for a day or two at a large conention center until we could get a chartered flight back to the States.

my cousins where on a ferry with 350 people and only two Bathrooms ! and they said it was soooo bad

where r u from ? :)

I am from a village called Ramia. It is right next to aita shaab. But when I go to lebanon I live in beirut. Around rafiq Hariri airport in a town called Bir Hassan :)

^^Yes,i know,ramia is beautiful village,Bir Hassan is a nice area too.

I was actually in lebanon when war errupted. I arrived on the day before the bombings. And just to tell you it was worth being in Lebanon. Even durring a war, there was always something to do, and entertain us. LONG LIVE LEBANON :banana:

^^ poor you,i was born in 1982 during the civil war and i see my childhood as a happy one :D

^^ Im glad you felt that way. Just the feeling that I get that i am going to lebanon gets me excited. All my family is over there. And right now i think i will leave to lebanon on June 27-31...Any one of those days. I CANT WAIT :) Hey were you recently in lebanon

^^ how is it that u've posted a number of times and yet u have 0 posts???

^^ Cafe posts are not counted. Remember that this website is meant for threads that are project/urban-related, so SSC "skybars" dont contribute to your post count.

I have no idea...lol

Hey..i was also evacuated...Even though i didnt want to. I went to cyprus. For some reason we were on a luxury cruise. The orient queen. It was wierd i thought I was going to be in a war ship

^^ The color of the deck was light blue, but the rest of your description is about right lol!

I remember it being green on the last floor, cuz when I woke up I had green oil paint stuck on my face...But I think the first story was blue indeed... We went to Turkey and the Israelis made the boat do a huge path before setting course to turkey. There were 2 toilets (holes in the ground actually) I don't want to go in details but not many people aimed for the holes LOL and there were 350 people indeed!!! We had to buy our water and they would take is 1$ Just 1$ not 5$ not 10$ not even a 100$ but one!!! So if you had no change you drank hot hot water. No one spoke english, french or arabic, only turkish. After the trip was over some Canadian "health officials" were waiting for us in Mersin (if I recall well) Turkey. Everyone was blue, yellow or purple and they though it was because of the war... So I took the liberty of clarifying that it was because of the friggin boat so I started screaming at the officials LOL.
If we had known, we would have stayed in Lebanon, we only left because we didn't want to be stuck for work. We were having the best time ever!!!I had 2 french and a canadian friend with me. They didn't want to leave either.
Lebanon is just such a great country and the Lebanese are just so resilient. In the middle of a war we were having 100 time as much fun as I ever had in Montreal.

i wish i never left lebanon last year:( if i would have known he war would have been over..i would have stayed...but now i dont think i will see lebanon for another year....bcz we are barley building our life here in states.

^^ I feel so sad for you :( Inchalla soon we all be there forever :)

Who here was evacuated in the Orient Queen, which i find wierd cuz it was a cruise. I think it was the last evacuation from lebanon

^^ You were evacuated to the US? The Orient Queen is a Lebanese cruise ship that was chartered by the US in addition to its military ships and some pathetic ferries. Not many people were as lucky as you!!!

I believe that you guys had luck, others try it to leave the country but they couldnt.
how bad was the situation in the south?

I believe that you guys had luck, others try it to leave the country but they couldnt.
how bad was the situation in the south?
i spoke to somebody that was actaully in the south and well he said that every minute there were bombings, and it was real dangerous over there, i mean way more dangerous than beirut, one of my friends home was actually destroyed in soor, so yes. By the way On the 3th day of the war I went to the DOHA...it was beautifull over there, we could still hear Some bombings, but not as much becuase the first bombing that occured was right next to our house, i mean im telling you it was right next to the grocery store that i always buy from, and actually it was the second bombing cuz the first was in the airport. And while i was in the middle of the sea, in the airplane, that was when the war started so i feel lucky that i actually got to go to lebanon this year

I ask because my old city here in germany lost a family (my grandparents live still there). maybe you hear it. Only the son of the family survived.
I know the family not personally but I know them from their shop in the city, and their car hous, my grandpa buys his car by the Khachabs.

I was shocked, they were many years not in Lebanon and then that.
I personal would stay in my country, but this family try to leave but they couldnt because of a destroyed bridge. Thats the reason why I say you guys had luck, because some of you wish they could stay there at that time, otherone try it and couldnt.

I ask because my old city here in germany lost a family (my grandparents live still there). maybe you hear it. Only the son of the family survived.
I know the family not personally but I know them from their shop in the city, and their car hous, my grandpa buys his car by the Khachabs.

I was shocked, they were many years not in Lebanon and then that.
I personal would stay in my country, but this family try to leave but they couldnt because of a destroyed bridge. Thats the reason why I say you guys had luck, because some of you wish they could stay there at that time, otherone try it and couldnt.

Yes I understand what you mean and I am very sorry for your friend. I wish him the best of luck. It just happened to be Israel's tactics to destroy any tranportation route which happened to be The bridges and the airport. The first bridge to actually be destroyed was right next to my house, I would walk there everyday it was Two minutes away, luckly we were not struck. I am sorry for the people who tried to get out of lebanon and were killed in the process. I was going to go out of lebanon through syria with one of my friends , I really didnt want to, I wanted to stay in my country, but I was forced to, but then later on I was able to go in the Orient Queen, a evacuating cruise from lebanon to cyprus. My friends were lucky and actually got away from the south to syria, and then took an airplane from there. They were lucky but not every one was, so I really wish the best to your friend. How old is he?

I have nothing against lebaneses and also nothing against israelis, sure the hole situation was XXX. I hope your relations become better, I cant say more.

you mean the son of the family, who survived.
dont know, I think Ahmet is maybe 10. hes back in germany, his uncle is here.

His sis was 13 or 14, and his mom was pregnant :-(

I searched and found only ths old pic of the family.
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3156/mfb5116129familiequertejh0.jpg

well, hope you guys have a better summer this year, enjoy your time there alisaleh.

thank you very much DU999... I feel very sorry for the boy, especially after seeing the picture. May god be with him and I hope that this summer there will not be another war, Hopefully...

Why is it that no one writes in here any more...its been a long time?

^^

well, compared to some other threads which havent had activity in months, and even a year,

this has only been 2 days my freind ;)

anywas, yes Inshallah there will not be another war,

i want to see if i can manage to go to Lebanon via Tehran this summer :?
inshllaah i hope i can! ihave some freinds there, family freinds

im going to Lebanon next summer :D yay i hope it can be part of my Euro Tour im planing but it will take a while to save !

im goin in two weeks to study at AUB, can anybody throw me a bone n hook me up with soome spots to go to

^^ Are you Lebanese? Is this your first time going to Lebanon?

Well I have decided to go to Lebanon this summer...I will be there at this time next week.

^^ coooooooooooooooooooool

Wise decision if u ask me :)

im goin in two weeks to study at AUB, can anybody throw me a bone n hook me up with soome spots to go to

u'll have no trouble finding ur way around..AUB is in the middle of beirut, and realy easy to find whatver u want, besides all pubs/clubs/cafes etc...are generaly located in one of 3 streets (Monot st. , Gemayzeh, Bliss St.), all of which are a stone's throw away.
if ur gay go to BO18.
enjoy!

^^ isnt that the nightclub which is underground ?

u'll have no trouble finding ur way around..AUB is in the middle of beirut, and realy easy to find whatver u want, besides all pubs/clubs/cafes etc...are generaly located in one of 3 streets (Monot st. , Gemayzeh, Bliss St.), all of which are a stone's throw away.
if ur gay go to BO18.
enjoy!

BO18 isnt really a gay club is it? I know a lot of straight people (guys and girls) that go there and its really one of the more mainstream spots.

Well I have decided to go to Lebanon this summer...I will be there at this time next week.

WoW?! really??

all the best :cheers1:

thats cool :)

U still going Beirut! ???

so how many of yous are going to lebanon ?

U still going Beirut! ???


I'm sad to report that I had to cancel my trip this summer - not because of fear but rather because of other factors.

:) Hey everyone...i am 85 percent sure i am going to lebanon on june 26, if so i cannot wait :banana:

hey guys, I'm going to Beirut on june 28 and I'm 99.99% sure
and i know a lot of lebanese people here in Riyad that already travelled to Leb during the last 2 or 3 weeks

^^ 28 of june will be three years since ive been to Lebanon ... im sooo good with dates for some reason.

ok lol maybe im not going on the 26...flight changed to the 3rd of july....i hope there are no more changes becuz last year we couldnt find a ticket...when one did come up it was on the 4th of July....then it waz changed to the 11....then to the twelth...I HAVE NOOO IDEA WHY.....but anyways i left on the twelth and in the middle of my flight a war was about to take place right underneath us....so yea hopefully no more changes....I think my flight Was One of the last airplanes the land in Beirut...ONE OF THEM :cheers: :banana: :banana: :banana:

For those of you going to Lebanon... take as many pictures (preferably urban) as you can!

Have fun in lebanon ! take lots of Photos :) !

i§m in the airport 1111 wooo, god=damn Czechoslovakia the kezboard is so weird, i cant type properlz, but anzwaz i got a new camera so i§ll be taking loadsa new pics....TIESTO mondaz...alrite1
later guzs.

^^

sickkkk

just, why czechoslovakia?! your flight went via there? to beirut?

im only going for two weeks, which will mean no chance for fun because there are like 4 family "things" and im not staying in beirut.... but hey im going ... better than nothing!!!

the countdown begins .... 50 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:

^^WOW,COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
:banana: :banana: :banana: I'll try to go for like couple of weeks as well in august but i'm not sure yet :)

i§m in the airport 1111 wooo, god=damn Czechoslovakia the kezboard is so weird, i cant type properlz, but anzwaz i got a new camera so i§ll be taking loadsa new pics....TIESTO mondaz...alrite1
later guzs.



....there is no such thing as Czechoslovakia anymore :P its Czech Republic and Slovakia

i am going for 2 weeks in august :D

i get fussy when i go i cant stay there for less then 7 weeks ! i have to stay longer then that . because days go so fast there and and for me i have to stay longer there when i go ... there could be a four year gap in between.

I'm going in early August (fingers crossed)

wow everyone's going all of a sudden! I expect lots of nice pics...

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: GUESS WHAT EVERYONE...TODAY IM LEAVING YAY...:) :) :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: ...as you can see i am very excited...im going via swiss airlines, hopefully i will be there by tommorow...:lol: :cheers:

^^ Cool ,Happy 4 u :) Yalla,Enjoy it :)

I'M IN BEIRUT!!!

when i came the plane was full, there were a lot of people in the airport, last sunday all lebanon was on the beach, ABC is full, Verdun is full, Jounieh is fulll...

I loooooove Lebanon!!!

^^ Wow Im jealous of you...thanks for the good news and keep us updated!

I'M IN BEIRUT!!!

when i came the plane was full, there were a lot of people in the airport, last sunday all lebanon was on the beach, ABC is full, Verdun is full, Jounieh is fulll...

I loooooove Lebanon!!!


that's so cool,so flights from riyadh are full,this is a good sign :)

going the 30th of July! :)

^^ Bravo,Finally??? :D Yalla,Enjoy ur time :)

when are you going to Lebanon a date confirmed yet ? ^^

^^ NOT YET

Come what may, Lebanese keep coming home :)
By Fadi Baaklini
Special to The Daily Star
Friday, July 06, 2007



BEIRUT: The current security instability in the country seems to have provided little deterrence to some Lebanese - mostly expatriates - seeking to visit the country for a summer break as they continue to land at Rafik Hariri International airport everyday.

George Kojak, 33, a Lebanese businessman living in Dubai, arrived in Lebanon donning a large smile, even though his stay would only last for two days. His trip is business-oriented, but he will still visit his family, who apparently encouraged him to come regardless of the circumstances.

He expressed his willingness to return to Lebanon when things improve, and one hopes that his family will push him to stay permanently when improvement arrives.

There were others on the same flight simply coming to Lebanon for entertainment. Roula Hussia, 28, a financial reporter of mixed Lebanese and Palestinian origin, stated that she had planned her trip to Lebanon knowing the risks, and decided that the trip was still worth it. "Everyone wants to come to Lebanon, even during these troubled times," Hussia said.

"It is split between those who are currently planning a visit, and between those who are still debating it, but in the end they all would like to head back here," she added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb

Wafa Assaf, 42, is a utility professional living in Edmonton, Alberta. She had not visited Lebanon in 30 years, but still decided to visit Lebanon this summer, despite the problems.

"I want my children to understand where they come from, what their heritage is, what their mother country is like, and, of course, to meet their extended family members," she said.

Raja Kamaleddine left Lebanon and settled in Canada when she married in 1980 a Canadian-Lebanese man who immigrated to Canada in 1961.

Kamaleddine is currently a businesswoman who owns a chain of restaurants across Canada, and returned to Lebanon to see family, who encouraged her to visit.

"Honestly we would like to keep our business in Canada," she said. "[But] our return to Lebanon is very likely if the situation becomes more stable, and we would probably spend at least half the year here. But in the end we would like to keep our restaurant."

The arrivals area at the airport was packed, which might potentially fool people into thinking that all is well outside the airport's walls.

^^Some Needed Good News

Lebanese are Crazy ! You cant break them :)

^^ they are ... and its ok now, but when things calm down and the economy gets better, they're all going to rush back and drown the country ... the government needs to start preparing for that seeing as its likely it will happen in the next 10 years or so

^^Allah yesma3 minnik! Lebanon is losing aloooot of ppl due to immigration now

You can only hope..the world is scrambing to help..i dont think the fate of Lebanon is in Lebanons hands...Lets all pray a breakthru occurs fast..next weeks meeting as well as the elections will be the tell all..I am curious about the Hairi and Aoun meeting also..

Plus i dont think it will take 10 years..I think we will be back up to 2 mill next year..Look at the lady who hasnt been to Lebanon in over 30 years..she wanted to come back and show her children...Most immigrants do not have that attachment..The Lebanese are 90% attached no matter nhow long and where you are...as i said this year will be the tell all..If we pass thru this people will rush back ..ITS boom time again..and we will all be busy with the project updates!

My dad came 5 dayz ago in MEA and said that his plane was also full

^^Those are some nice news,we need new reports on Tourism for july

well, i am going to Lebanon this summer........my parents doesn't want me too......but i will anyways for 2 days probably. i need to see my family and friends.........haven’t been there since x-mas 2006

I am back from lebanon:ohno: :ohno: :ohno: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :( :( :(
Its so sad to leave lebanon, leaving your family and all of your close neighbors

not but might go in 2 months

im back too :(
the depression is slowly setting in... cant even bring myself to look at the pictures :(

^^AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW:kiss: :kiss:
ma3lesh u are gonna visit Lebanon Again :) Now that u have semsem :P ;)

haha thanks .... knowing me that will soon turn into a reason NOT to go :P

^^loooooooooool

Psychoooooo :P:P

lol just outa curiocity wat is SEMSEM???lol anywayz i am thinking of going to lebanon during the winter vacation only for like 12 days thank going again on july.....yea i kno itz a little early to be thinking about this but im like obsessed with that place:banana: .....It went by so fast i still remember the day i was leaving my dad was down stairs calling me to go down to get in the car because he was taking me to the airport so before going i quickly long on and type that im going to lebanon today and i am about to go to lebanon...u can find this post on page 8 saying


:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: GUESS WHAT EVERYONE...TODAY IM LEAVING YAY...:) :) :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:...as you can see i am very excited...im going via swiss airlines, hopefully i will be there by tommorow...:lol: :cheers:

It is sooo sad to look back at this....and also to look back at all of the posts talking about lebanon.....and i just noticed (been knowing) that the weather over here IS SOO BAD in lebanon its better i mean in the news it says its going to be very sunny, but then it just looks like its about to rain....this never occurs in lebanon....Like it says below........ LONG LIVE LEBANON

im back too :(
the depression is slowly setting in... cant even bring myself to look at the pictures :(

Just for the record lebgurl when did you return....i returned yesterday....i arrived in JFK at like 3:00 pm...BUMMER:ohno: :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:

haha semsem is hassoun's nickname for my new bf

I flew in to tampa sunday night and I went through JFK too and before that turkey (where none of us had any clue that a plane had been hijacked) ... so we were searched thouroughly in both places!

haha semsem is hassoun's nickname for my new bf

I flew in to tampa sunday night and I went through JFK too and before that turkey (where none of us had any clue that a plane had been hijacked) ... so we were searched thouroughly in both places!


what are the odds of that happening !
plus what airline was it

Back from Leb :ohno: :ohno: I have to wait one more long year to go back there:ohno: :ohno:

:bash: are you serius...wow a plane was hijacked...by who?? and like where was it going cuz i went from lebanon 2 geneva to jfk via mea then swiss....so basically i have nooo clue:cheers:

:bash: are you serius...wow a plane was hijacked...by who?? and like where was it going cuz i went from lebanon 2 geneva to jfk via mea then swiss....so basically i have nooo clue:cheers:

A turkish boy and a palestinian with a syrian passport hijacked a plane which was flying from the turkish republic of cyprus to istanbul.
They wanted to fly to Iran. (idiots)
In the end the plane landed in Antalya and they were arrested.
(they didt have a real bomb!)

by the way I feel like you guys, I just miss Turkey not Lebanon. :)

Where is Tampa located?

^^Florida

WoW! that's far!

haha semsem is hassoun's nickname for my new bf

I flew in to tampa sunday night and I went through JFK too and before that turkey (where none of us had any clue that a plane had been hijacked) ... so we were searched thouroughly in both places!

How is the Busch Gardens nowadays?

^^ pretty good .. i heard they made sheikra floorless a while back but i havent been on it since ... im gonna go get my pass soon so we can go between classes (probably the best thing about USF) and howl-o-scream's coming up too

did anyone notice that even with the war that just went on fast food restourants like pizza hut and Mc donalds has increased in lebanon :cheers:

when i said lebanon lol i meant beirut

I flew in to tampa sunday night and I went through JFK too and before that turkey (where none of us had any clue that a plane had been hijacked) ... so we were searched thouroughly in both places!

They'll search/ask u questions based on your name even.... there was a misprint on a e-ticket when I flew to Chicago with some friends, and my friend ended up being pulled out of line, taken into a room and asked questions. They'll also do it even if you have a pencil in your backpack (when they screen it). What did they do in the search or did they at least tell u why they were doing it (if u don't mind me asking)? I can understand that happening in Turkey, but the whole JFK thing sounds unfair and wrong.

when i said lebanon lol i meant beirut

NOT REALLY, CAUSE MC DONALDS OPENED NEW BRANCHES IN TYR AND SAIDA LAST MONTH

^^ALSO in Tripoli ans Aley

well yes there are many places but i ment like the place i have actually seen lol anyways a new (first) arabic school opened up in brooklyn new york, now people are against this because they believe it might actually bring terrorism to their neighborhood which is completely idiotic, arabic has nothing to do with islam plus its not like brooklyn is a safe place, not to offend no one living there...just thought i should bring this up:bash: :nuts:

wow its been like 11 days since the last post....which happenes to be from me...come on ppl start talking :dance2: :dance2:

^^What do u want us to say?...i mean all the ones who went to leb this summer went back so u have to wait until...next year!!lol

Summer is basically over and posts are beginning to drift off-topic,

so it's time to close this thread :lock:

... we can start one for the winter season soon.