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Popular General Tips | Other General Tips Tips | All Tips (138) A dazzling beauty from Lebanon. Haifa has been able to capture the lime light through her stunning charm, captivating presence, eye-catching elegance and fascinating allure. This sultry charm has been her passport to the world of fame, fashion and music.
At the age of 16, Haifa won a beauty contest in South Lebanon, and in 1995, took part in the Miss Lebanon competition where she won the title of “Most beautiful young woman in Lebanon”. A year later, she was in massive demand for fashion shows. Owing to her beauty, which perfectly just rates Arab and Eastern women’s beauty, her photos made the cover of more than 100 magazines. Likewise through the Internet sites that clamoured for her eye catching appeal she was voted “The most beautiful woman in the world” by her fans.
From here, encouraged by the Rotana music company and her, legions of cheering fans, Haifa has made a natural and seamless progression into singing. Her Album “Howa el zaman” is the first fruit of the co-operation between her and Rotana. Believing in Haifa’s talent, Rotana offered her its utmost support at the time when many others were sceptical.
Haifa took her new career very seriously and was extremely selective and meticulous in her choice of the album’s lyrics and music and her choice of producers and arrangers. She performs the songs with a voice so sweet that it penetrates directly into the heart.
Her first album, “Howa el zaman”, is a huge once in a lifetime opportunity for her, and this is why she is handling it so carefully. Unpretentious and simple, she hugely appreciates the encouragement of her fans and close friends and considers that both She is the beautiful Haifa Wehbe – top beauty queen, fashion model and now singer who has been strong enough to overcome any difficulties and obstacles placed in her way and interpret her childhood dreams in an album, which will surely propel her into stardom in the music world. Leave a Comment
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Unfortunately, we were not in Beirut very long. However, the city comes alive in the late afternoon, evenings and at night, when the heat retreats, and people come out on the streets and squares to visit the cafes, bars and restaurants. Of course, the largest concentration of bars, restaurants, and cafes, and the nicest place to be, is along the coastal road near the Sea. We only saw a small portion, but it looked very enticing. Hire a taxi to drive you along the coast road, and then stop anywhere that looks most attractive to you. A round trip taxi shouldn't cost more than about $5 for 20-30 minutes. This will give you a good idea where to go and where to eat. Enjoy. Leave a Comment
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This is for everyone out there that's looking for a phone number or website about a company, restaurant, shop or place in Beirut and Lebanon..It is Lebanon's yellow pages.
If you have internet access, this will be the place to find all the contact information that you might need. If you prefer to use the phone, then from any land line dial 1515 and you will be connected to OGERO - the local phone company. You will have to dial (1 arabic, 2 english, 3 french) then you will have to dial (2 to reach the phone directory services). Then simply ask them about the information you desire.
English site: http://www.yellowpages.com.lb/
French site: http://www.pagesjaunes.com.lb/ Leave a Comment
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Walking in Beirut we felt a very energetic atmosphere. Everywhere we saw the silhouets of cranes against the sky and in the street a lot of concrete mixers.
Near the Hamra shopping area we saw, that they were building and rebuilding a lot of rather luxurious looking apartments. Leave a Comment
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The Minister of Tourism is located at
550 Central Bank Street
PO Box 11/5344 Beirut
Lebanon
Their home page is
www.destinationlebanon.com
or email them at
mot@lebanon-tourism.gov.lb
Tel. +01 340 940 4
They produce many free publications highlighting the many things to see and do in Lebanon, so they are a valuable resource for planning your next trip to Lebanon. Leave a Comment
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Visiting other countries and cities, I'm always very interested how people build there houses and how they live. In the Hamra area I saw some small courtyards, for drying the laundry, for playing kids, for a chat with the neigbours and many other daily activities nearby the house. Leave a Comment
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One of the last things I expected to find in Lebanon was a modern, functioning post office. Probably because I am familiar with former communist countries, where the post office is often the last vestige of the planned economy that is reformed. However, that is Lebanon. You arrive with one set of preconceived notions and then are pleasantly surprised.
The central post office is located in downtown Beirut, one street off the main pedestrian throughfares, between the main square and the Roman ruins. It is along the same street as the central bank, but not hard to find.
The cost to mail a postcard is about LBP 1500 ($1) to Canada & the USA, and for Europe it is cheaper.
They had a very good selection of postcards and posters in the post office. They also had some other souvenirs. The post office was very modern and also offered Internet access. However, we arrived just as they were closing, but they were kind enough to stay open long enough to allow us to buy our stamps, choose our postcards, and mail them. Very nice and friendly of them.
Also, in the lobby of the post office, they had an impressive display of Harley Davidson motorcycles on show for the public. To locate the post office, look for their futuristic logo. Leave a Comment
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If you do not have internet access, or which to obtain any phone number (restaurant, company, gym, etc.), all you have to do is dial 1515 from any phone (landline or mobile). You will then be prompted to click 1, 2, 3 to be redirected to an operator that speaks (Arabic, English or French). At that point, you can ask the operator what you wish to know.
Most of the times, it only requires them a minute to come out with the number. If it is a small place, then sometimes you'd have to mention the location (ex: in Hamra or Verdun) and will most probably help you out with this information. Leave a Comment
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Walking between the Hamra area and downtown Beirut we saw a fruit market along one of the streets leading in the direction of Place des Martyrs.
Along the both sides of the street were fruitstalls with oranges and other fruit.
And then somewhere in between heaps of ruins, which not have been removed yet.
And of course, the daily life goes on, with or without traces of devastations by the war. Leave a Comment
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Happy 2004! Things are changing... fast downtown, slowlier in the suburbs, especially in the less wealthy ones. Devastated between 1975 and 1990 by a bloody civil war, Beirut is quickly picking itself up. Buildingd like the one in the picture are getting more and more obsolete.
I'm not too fond of Beirut... beautiful restoration work has been carried out downtown and in other parts of town, yet it's still very grey and sad-looking. I saw very little of it by day, and I was not really impressed. But by night it shines like gold: it's beautiful, it's alive, it's captivating, it's full of contrast. I definitely liked Beirut at night. Leave a Comment
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