Private Beiteddine Palace & Deir el Qamar Tour | From Beirut

The Chouf Mountains hold two of Lebanon's most beautiful and most historically layered destinations — and this private morning tour from Beirut gives you both, before the crowds arrive and while the light on the honey-stone walls is at its most extraordinary. Beiteddine Palace is one of the finest 19th-century palaces in the Arab world — built by Emir Bashir II over three decades of meticulous craftsmanship, its grand courtyards, carved cedar ceilings, and underground Byzantine mosaic museum revealing a Lebanon of extraordinary refinement and ambition. A short drive away, Deir el Qamar — Lebanon's first capital — is a perfectly preserved Ottoman village where a mosque, a church, and centuries-old mansions share the same cobblestone square in quiet, enduring coexistence. With a private guide entirely focused on your group and no fixed schedule to keep, you move at your own pace — lingering where the story calls for it.