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Lebanon.Dog River & Jeita Grottos

 Along the cost north of Beirut, at the mouth of the Dog River (Nahr El Kalb), the overhanging cliff contains inscriptions left by invaders from the 13th century BC. In all there are 19 inscriptions in 8 different languages. The most recent inscriptions mark the evacuation of all foreign troops from Lebanon in 1946. A little beyond Dog River, the road leads to the Jeita grotto, on extensive grotto and river chambers. Here is an enormous cavern festooned with every shape and size of stalactite and stalagmite. Everywhere in the lower or upper grotto stand weird rows of multicolored columns and enormous masses of draperies bedecked in a thousand sparkling colors manufactured by nature.