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Jeita Grotto is located in the Dog River Valley, about 20 kilometers north of Beirut
The Lebanese Grotto jewel (pearl) Lebanese tourism,
They constitute an important station to attract tourists throughout the year.
It is one of the finest natural artifacts in the Middle
It is a narrow coral cavities
,
The lounges and structures and Nantha nature rooms,
And it leaked water limestone heights of the mountains of Lebanon
To form with the passage of time a world of domes and sculptures
The strange shapes and configurations that the tongue can not be described.
Jeita Grotto consists of two layers,
Class or upper cave (dry) and Amoarhambassly (water)
Supreme cave dry
Supreme cave opened in January 1969, after it was discovered in 1958
And qualify for the visit by the engineer and artist and sculptor Ghassan Clinic
This class is characterized from the cave that it gives visitors fun walking
At a distance of 750 meters in length, which up to 2200 meters
After crossing the tunnel with a length of about 120 meters
Overlooks the lanes after the great cellars rise
Distributed depressions in addition to stalagmites and stalactites and limestone columns and related forms of the impressive
Lower cave (water)
Discovered back to the year 1836, the American missionary William Thomson,
It is said that after the incursion in within about 50 meters
After that shot from a hunting rifle he was carrying,
And realized through the echo caused by sound-caliber firearm,
The cave extension Gouveia up to 6200 meters of great importance.
Pioneers
And a few years after the incident, two of the architects decided to Beirut Water Works Company, two «. C. Maxwell 'and' e. C. Huxley, and two of their friends, and their pastor 'Daniel Plus' director Syrian Evangelical College at the time, which later became the American University in Beirut, he took the team made two trips expeditions inside the cave where the penetration up to a distance of about 800 meters in 1873.1060 meters the following year. Team members named one giant stalagmites has successively discovered by history pioneers foreigners and Lebanese adventurers and is located about 625 meters from the entrance to the cave «column Maxwell» the name of the team leader. In position located about 200 meters from the first, called the 'gods Complex', wrote their names and the date of their exploration on a sheet of paper and made it in a bottle and put the bottle on top of another bullish. With the passage of time cost water bottle lime rind Vagmt stamped forever and made it part of the upside, which is still in place today. Expeditions and rolled inside the cave, starting in 1892 in order to identify the underground tunnel network, which consists of better and more accurate so that the total length of tunnels that could be explored until 1940 approximately 1750 meters. And all who have these explorations at the time of nationalities English, American and French.
Lebanese explorers
But stages of exploring Grotto has undergone a radical transformation from the forties of the twentieth century until today. Has passed the torch to generations of explorers of the Lebanese, especially members of the «Lebanese Club for cave exploration, founded in 1951 first Lebanese prospector Lionel surprise. He has Prospectors Lebanese since then, and through various associations, study site was characterized by systematic study, accuracy and methodology, and took deep Amoartin Almcetkhevcan increasing day after day until Pat intensive along the corridor up to the borders of nine kilometers. The flow of the lower cave River Jovi is submerged part of the headwaters of the dog, a spring that feeds Beirut with drinking water. And landed on the lower cave by small boats transported visitor through water body curvy cut silence the roar of groundwater and is surrounded by columns of stalagmites and stalactites that carved the nature over millions of years to a distance of approximately 500 meters out of 6200 meters as it closed to visitors when rising water in winter. And stands at the entrance to the cave (guard time) which is the largest carved 6 meters high and 60 cm and weighing 75 tons. And the temperature stays within Amoartin year-round constant 16 degrees Celsius in the lower cave and 22 degrees in higher education. Ever cave reopened in July 1995 after 20 years on the forced closure as a result of the civil war (1975 to 1990). And signed the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism-year contract after that 27 years ago, including 13 years with the company invested Mabas to rehabilitate Grotto.
Visitors and the environment
The province's environment cave and its surroundings are a top concern administration annex to remain rock grotto healthy and free from any impurities, because this natural environment is very sensitive, and any defect can cause damage to the rocks limestone, and lose their beauty and can lead to a change in colors, so it was imposing rules strict in order to preserve its beauty through the use of lighting system is harmless, and prevent the introduction of food or drinks and even a photo op out of fear that grows on the limestone layer 'algae' or 'twinge' enters the pores soft and change color. Number of tourists in Lebanon last year's nearly 1.3 million, according to statistics of the Ministry of Tourism of Lebanon. The director of the investing company to Jeita Grotto Nabil Haddad that the number of visitors to the cave in 2004 reached 361 thousand and 968 people, an increase of 30 percent from the year 2003 that the number of visitors which 275 440. The works in the cave a team of 150 employees in the summer, and that number drops to 75 employees in the winter.
The Lebanese Grotto jewel (pearl) Lebanese tourism,
They constitute an important station to attract tourists throughout the year.
It is one of the finest natural artifacts in the Middle
It is a narrow coral cavities
,
The lounges and structures and Nantha nature rooms,
And it leaked water limestone heights of the mountains of Lebanon
To form with the passage of time a world of domes and sculptures
The strange shapes and configurations that the tongue can not be described.
Jeita Grotto consists of two layers,
Class or upper cave (dry) and Amoarhambassly (water)
Supreme cave dry
Supreme cave opened in January 1969, after it was discovered in 1958
And qualify for the visit by the engineer and artist and sculptor Ghassan Clinic
This class is characterized from the cave that it gives visitors fun walking
At a distance of 750 meters in length, which up to 2200 meters
After crossing the tunnel with a length of about 120 meters
Overlooks the lanes after the great cellars rise
Distributed depressions in addition to stalagmites and stalactites and limestone columns and related forms of the impressive
Lower cave (water)
Discovered back to the year 1836, the American missionary William Thomson,
It is said that after the incursion in within about 50 meters
After that shot from a hunting rifle he was carrying,
And realized through the echo caused by sound-caliber firearm,
The cave extension Gouveia up to 6200 meters of great importance.
Pioneers
And a few years after the incident, two of the architects decided to Beirut Water Works Company, two «. C. Maxwell 'and' e. C. Huxley, and two of their friends, and their pastor 'Daniel Plus' director Syrian Evangelical College at the time, which later became the American University in Beirut, he took the team made two trips expeditions inside the cave where the penetration up to a distance of about 800 meters in 1873.1060 meters the following year. Team members named one giant stalagmites has successively discovered by history pioneers foreigners and Lebanese adventurers and is located about 625 meters from the entrance to the cave «column Maxwell» the name of the team leader. In position located about 200 meters from the first, called the 'gods Complex', wrote their names and the date of their exploration on a sheet of paper and made it in a bottle and put the bottle on top of another bullish. With the passage of time cost water bottle lime rind Vagmt stamped forever and made it part of the upside, which is still in place today. Expeditions and rolled inside the cave, starting in 1892 in order to identify the underground tunnel network, which consists of better and more accurate so that the total length of tunnels that could be explored until 1940 approximately 1750 meters. And all who have these explorations at the time of nationalities English, American and French.
Lebanese explorers
But stages of exploring Grotto has undergone a radical transformation from the forties of the twentieth century until today. Has passed the torch to generations of explorers of the Lebanese, especially members of the «Lebanese Club for cave exploration, founded in 1951 first Lebanese prospector Lionel surprise. He has Prospectors Lebanese since then, and through various associations, study site was characterized by systematic study, accuracy and methodology, and took deep Amoartin Almcetkhevcan increasing day after day until Pat intensive along the corridor up to the borders of nine kilometers. The flow of the lower cave River Jovi is submerged part of the headwaters of the dog, a spring that feeds Beirut with drinking water. And landed on the lower cave by small boats transported visitor through water body curvy cut silence the roar of groundwater and is surrounded by columns of stalagmites and stalactites that carved the nature over millions of years to a distance of approximately 500 meters out of 6200 meters as it closed to visitors when rising water in winter. And stands at the entrance to the cave (guard time) which is the largest carved 6 meters high and 60 cm and weighing 75 tons. And the temperature stays within Amoartin year-round constant 16 degrees Celsius in the lower cave and 22 degrees in higher education. Ever cave reopened in July 1995 after 20 years on the forced closure as a result of the civil war (1975 to 1990). And signed the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism-year contract after that 27 years ago, including 13 years with the company invested Mabas to rehabilitate Grotto.
Visitors and the environment
The province's environment cave and its surroundings are a top concern administration annex to remain rock grotto healthy and free from any impurities, because this natural environment is very sensitive, and any defect can cause damage to the rocks limestone, and lose their beauty and can lead to a change in colors, so it was imposing rules strict in order to preserve its beauty through the use of lighting system is harmless, and prevent the introduction of food or drinks and even a photo op out of fear that grows on the limestone layer 'algae' or 'twinge' enters the pores soft and change color. Number of tourists in Lebanon last year's nearly 1.3 million, according to statistics of the Ministry of Tourism of Lebanon. The director of the investing company to Jeita Grotto Nabil Haddad that the number of visitors to the cave in 2004 reached 361 thousand and 968 people, an increase of 30 percent from the year 2003 that the number of visitors which 275 440. The works in the cave a team of 150 employees in the summer, and that number drops to 75 employees in the winter.
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