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Where the alphabet went to sea.

Journeys in Lebanon

Lebanon

The Purple Coast

Byblos to Sidon with the last dye masters and the harbours that started it all.

8 days From USD 2,450

Lebanon

Cedars and Kitchens

Mountain villages and the family kitchens that still cook the old way.

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6 days From USD 2,150

The coast where the Phoenician alphabet first went to sea. Byblos, Sidon and Tyre still hold the workshops of the dye masters, glassblowers and stonecutters who traded across the whole Mediterranean.

From the journal

The Last Murex Dyers of Tyre

One family still works the shellfish beds that once coloured the robes of emperors.

Glass, Before It Was Clear

The Sidon workshops, and why the first glassmakers were not trying to see through anything.

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