I do appreciate your efforts in this matter.  Your videos, ie
MarkTwainHolyLand and Mark Twain Travel Trilogy seem to be locked behind
an Apple app.  This must be something new as I had them book marked from
previous visits.  The only video on YouTube I found credited to you was
for Jerusalem.

How does the location of Broumana sound to you for a first night stop.
It appears to be a rather "upscale" sight, complete with a country club.
It appears to be on a route going east from Beirut according to a David
Rumsey map.  And I judge it to be a bit over 10 miles from Beirut.

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 06:57 +0100, Ian Strathcarron wrote:
> Thanks for letting me know about YouTube, Scott, I'll look into it. The =
> whole route was covered in video clips so I hope they haven't removed =
> them all.
> 
> That's right about the dirty Arab village, which is now not so dirty and =
> not so Arab but has been totally swamped by Karak Nuah. I followed an =
> old British Army map which made life really simple as there was only one =
> caravanserai route from Beirut to Baalbek. If you go to Google Earth and =
> overlay with the 1861 Rumsey Historical Map you can see the route =
> through Zahle from which they excursioned although it's fuzzy. The =
> chapel/madrassah is at 33 50' 38.72" N / 35 54' 45.36" E.
> 
> By the way there was an earlier forum post about them spending the first =
> night on top of Mount Lebanon. Mount Lebanon refers to a whole range =
> running down the country and tops at 10,000 feet, so unlikely. If I =
> remember the first night's stop is lost somewhere in new expensive =
> suburbs. The video of Beirut explains and I'll try to sort it out on =
> YouTube.
> 
> Happy footstepping!
> 
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