From Baalbeck, to Tyre, to a day in the life of a refugee camp and hanging with Hezbollah.
Trendy and modern, the Sheraton Four Point in Le Verdun, Beirut, is centrally located. A very well kept and maintained hotel, with friendly staff and great service.
Everyone says, dreamily, "it's the Paris of the Middle East." It's not. Beirut is its own funky animal: tense, beautiful, cracking with growth, assaulted by civil strife, graffitied with advertising for Starbucks and Applebees and perfumes from Paris, but without jobs for women, without futures for the young people bristling with university degrees.