After a conversation with Nasma, a Red Cross Youth volunteer from Baalbek, a Thursday in the office, we got invited to Baalbek to meet the volunteers there. We thought this was a great idea, and we wanted to travel already the up coming weekend. Since we were not that familiar with driving out of Beirut, we chose a route we knew, this showed up to be not as easy as we thought. The road signs were in Arabic and the roads were splitting without any pre notice, this resulted that we got lost a few times. Luckily we have a Red Cross car, which make me feel very safe. After a three and a half hour ride with endless phone conversations with Nasma we arrived late, but safe. We were met by the local Red Cross Youth committee in a restaurant, where we ate a delicious Lebanese meal. We were invited to Nasmas home where we were going to spend the night. The house was so cosy, with a warm fireplace in the living room. Outside it was really cold, and the wool underwear from Norway was well used.
Sunday morning we woke up early, and we were real tourists, with the camera close to the hand and good walking shoes. Baalbek is a historical city, with temples from the old roman times. Baalbek was the religious capital, and it was decorated with beautiful temples in the honour of the gods, and all of this was really well preserved. You can see from the picture how amazing it was. After the temple visit we went to see the largest rock in the world, which was cut out from the mountain, this was meant to be used on the temple we was in earlier, but it was left as an extra resource. We closed the trip by going back to Nasmas place where we ate a traditional Lebanese farmers meal, ktir tajib.
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