"Timing your visit" Top 5 Page for this destination Baalbeck Things to Do Tip by TheWanderingCamel

Try to spend the night at Baalbek. Come in the afternoon - that way you can have a good lunch somewhere else before you arrive - Baalbek is no gourmet's ideal; visit the ruins; catch the effect of the changing light as the sun sets, bathing the ruins in a golden glow and turning the snow on the mountains behind to pink - ideally from the balcony of the Hotel Palmyra with a good bottle of Lebanese red; and wake to watch the light change again, this time from the cool, pale light of early morning to clear daylight; take a walk around the other ruins outside the main temple site and spend some time in the town before heading off to wherever you are going next.