Maronite Monasteries, Byblos and Batroun

Met up with Roland and then we spent the morning visiting various Maronite monasteries in the mountains around Batroun. Sainte Rafqa and Blessed Brother Estephan Nehme were the main focus. Blessed Brother Estephan body lays on a glass coffin in the Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justina and supposed has not decayed since his death. We could not get close enough to verify this though.

After all this goodness we drove down to Byblos for a long seafoood lunch overlooking the Mediteranean.

In the late afternoon we pottered around the old city of Byblos which is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Checked out the old fishing harbour and a quick explore of the crusader castle and that was about it for the day. We need to return  sometimeto see the remains of Roman temples and Phoenician ruins.

Drove back to the cacophony of Tripoli before returning home to Beirut.