When I was about to leave Byblos behind to continue on the road south to Beirut, a group of swanky young urban Lebanese professionals invited me to join them for coffee at an outdoor cafe. They all spoke perfect English and were up from Beirut to enjoy the Easter holiday on the Byblos coast until their return to the grindstones that awaited them Beirut. These are the remains of the Temple of Baalat Gebal in the foreground, which dates back to the Egyptian empire, around 4000 B.C. You can see the modern city highrises climbing the hills in the background. (3/28/05)

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Byblos, Remains of Temple of Balaat Gebal