Want to check your VT mail? Go to Bits 'n Bytes!
by swings
This is one of my favorite things about Beirut, as I've occasionally used their computers to check my mail and stay in touch with my family and friends. Although it tends to have grubby keyboards and a smoky atmosphere, I'm usually tapping my foot and nodding my head to their loud Lebanese music, and I LOVE their low prices: 3000 LL ($2 US) /hour, but when you pay for two hours, you get one hour free. Several times when my husband and I have both gone there, they have given us each a computer for 1 1/2 hours at the same 6000 LL ($4 US) rate!
It's located on Sidani Street, Hamra, opposite the Mayfair Residence. The taxi drivers know that area as Jeanna d'Arc. Jeanna d'Arc Street is nearby, and there is a closed Jeanna d'Arc Theatre on Sidani St.
A good map
by MalenaN
A good map to bring is GEO Projects map of Lebanon and Beirut. I enjoyed it very much. You can buy it in English, Arabic or French. The Lebanese map is in scale 1: 200 000 and the Beirut map (on the other side) is in scale 1: 10 000. The maps are easy to read and the Beirut map much better than the one you get at the tourist office.
The map can be bought at several places in Beirut (Virgin Mega Store and National Museum) for 12 000 LL.
Romans everywhere
by themagiclake
Those Roman, where only they were not been!!!!
I showed you telling you:
Your Ancestors where here, and mine also...
they always been in contact, and if we could go past to those past times, we would see our love story in one of those lives, yes who knows, you could be a beautiful Phoenician girl, and I would be a Roman Legion, and those same place would be witnesses of a big love story, because it is fate, to live many lives passing in the same places, being me and you in different times, but same souls, and same incredible strongest unbelievable love.
Why not go scuba diving in Beirut
by MalenaN
Scuba diving in Beirut? I know it's not like the Red sea but for me (who have done most of my dives in the Red Sea) this was a new experience.
I dived with the NISD (National Institute for Scuba Diving) located in the Rivera Hotel (where you can also spent a day by the pool).
During the two dives I did we didn't see so many things, a moray and some fishes. But we made a nice drift dive. Sometimes you see sharks. You can rent the equipment at the diving centre. One dive with full equipment is 30 dollars.
The Holiday Inn...or what's left of it.
by RblWthACoz
Standing high over the downtown area, the Holiday Inn stands still as a symbol of the civil war that rocked Lebanon. It was a flash point for fighting as is obvious by the many scars it bears. Walking around with it in view gives you a perspective of how the fighting permeated the area.
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One of the calcium-covered chambers
A bad picture of Mike in front of the Serail
A view of the ceiling
More of the sea view
