Jeita Grotto

Located some 20 Km north of Beirut, Jeita is the Lebanon's natural wonder and one of the world's most beautiful caverns. These caverns are on two levels: the lower galleries, discovered in1836 and opened to the public in 1958, are visited by boat. This part of the caverns takes you to a beautiful underworld millions of years in the making. But the 600-meter boat trip on a subterranean lake is only a sampling of the system that has been explored for almost 6,910 meters.
The upper galleries, opened in January 1969, can be seen on foot.
Formed several million years before the lower caverns, this section shows what the entire cave system was like before geological conditions displaced the subterranean river to its present level.
650 meters walking through this dry gallery, shows many formations shaped over millions of years.

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