8.30 AM — Hotel pickup Your driver meets the group at your Beirut hotel and heads north — Jeita Grotto is 30 minutes away and the day begins underground.

Jeita Grotto — New 7 Wonders finalist · UNESCO tentative site Two cave systems that consistently top Lebanon's must-visit lists — and deserve to. The upper cave on foot — stalactites and stalagmites up to 8 metres tall, formed over millions of years. The lower cave by silent electric boat along an underground river through chambers of extraordinary stillness. One of the most spectacular natural experiences in the Middle East. From here the day pivots east — over the Lebanese mountains to the Bekaa Valley and a completely different kind of world.

Stone of the Pregnant Woman — scale check before the temples A single limestone block, 21 metres long, weighing 1,000 tonnes, cut 2,000 years ago and never moved. Still in the quarry where it was abandoned. Your driver explains the engineering logic — and why standing next to it recalibrates everything before you enter the temple complex five minutes ahead.

Baalbek Temple Complex — specialist local guide joins here Your specialist local Baalbek guide meets the group at the entrance — someone who has spent years studying these structures and who knows the site at a depth that visiting guides simply cannot match. The Temple of Jupiter on Trilithon stones each weighing over 800 tonnes — the largest dressed stones in human history. The Temple of Bacchus, larger than the Parthenon and almost entirely intact — the best-preserved Roman temple on earth. The Temple of Venus completing a complex that took three centuries to build. Baalbek is the site in Lebanon where a specialist local guide makes the biggest difference — and this is what that difference looks like.

Chateau Ksara — Roman caves beneath Lebanon's oldest winery Lebanon's oldest winery — founded by Jesuit monks in 1857 above 2 kilometres of Roman cave cellars where wine ages at a naturally constant temperature year-round. The cave tour connects directly back to the Roman world at Baalbek — same civilisation, same valley, different legacy entirely. Then a tasting of Ksara's iconic Cabernet-Syrah blends, crisp Blanc de Blancs, and celebrated Sunset Rosé. A day that began in natural limestone caves closes in Roman wine caves. The Bekaa in one sentence.

Return to Beirut — approx. 5.00 - 6:00 PM Drop-off at your Beirut hotel. Natural limestone caves, the world's greatest Roman temples with a local expert, and ancient wine caves — underground to underground, with Baalbek in between. Done properly.