Clothing:If you go to Baalbek...
Clothing:If you go to Baalbek (which you should), it could be wise to consider how you dress if you are female. I went there with my girlfried, and she wanted to wear her new shorts. This was a friday, which is the musilm resting day. We walked around the city, and she got quite a lot of disapproving stares. I curse myself for not realizing that it was the shorts that provided the offence before we got back to the hotel. I am sure people would have been much more forthcoming if she had dressed more 'respectfully'. This is also true, to a lesser extent, in Tyre. In the rest of the country, however, you could probably go naked without upsetting anybody.Mines:There are _a lot_ of mines in the south, inside the UN controlled security zone. It would be very unwise to walk outside of roads without talking to some locals first (chances are, goats have 'found' the mines already, but there are...
