Small-Group Guided Tour to Sidon, Tyre & Maghdouche: Explore Ancient Sites & Enjoy Local Lunch
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33 Ratings
Sidon
Embark on a small-group guided tour to Sidon, Tyre, and Maghdouche. Explore ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome and the powerful city-state of Sidon. Visit the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Awaiting. Enjoy a local lunch and convenient hotel pickup and drop-off.
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Sidon - Sidon, one of the oldest Phoenician cities, was founded in the 3rd millennium BC and became prosperous in the 2nd. Sidon was famous for its purple dyes and glassware and Jesus visited it. During the Crusades, Sidon changed hands several times and was destroyed and rebuilt.
What's Included
  • Local Expert Guide
  • All Site Admissions Included
  • Professional Tour Leader
  • Air-Conditioned Transport
  • Meal Included
  • Convenient Hotel Pick-Up & Drop-Off
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Experience the highlights of Tyre with a trained guide, and acquire a deep understanding of a city rich in ancient sites such as the Tyre Hippodrome. This city is among the oldest constantly occupied cities globally.
Also referred to as Saida, you’ll explore Sidon, a city with traces of habitation dating back to prehistoric times, and once the most influential city-state of ancient Phoenicia.
The trip concludes with a visit to Our Lady of Awaiting, or Our Lady of Mantara, a Marian shrine in Maghdouché, Lebanon. This shrine is believed to be the resting place of Virgin Mary while waiting for Jesus during his Sidon visit.
The tour package includes lunch and the convenience of hotel pickup and drop-off.

Location
Sidon
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Stephanie2743
May 19, 2024
Excellent and knowledgeable guides - I did three tours with Lebanon Trips and Tours (Baalbek, Tyre/Sidon, and the Bsharri cedars) and all of them were phenomenal. I was particularly impressed by how knowledgeable and friendly the guides Hassan and Albert were, and how they specifically went out of their way to hire archaeologists as local guides in key sites like Baalbek and Tyre, which helped me get a LOT more out of my experience! Highly recommend going with them!
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Laura
Oct 3, 2023
Don’t miss it! - Nice organized visit to Sidón (crusader castle, market, soap museum), Tyre (necropolis, race track and port), had a nice Lebanese lunch with fish and ended in Maghdouche. Visit was in a small van, picked up and dropped off at our hotel and Rita was a great guide!
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Katrinagraves
Sep 29, 2023
Great visit to the Southern part of Lebanon - I have taken 4 day tours with Lebanon Tours and Travel and they have all been great! This one, to Tyre and Sidon, was a great opportunity to get outside of the city and visit the southern part of the country. Our guide, Hassane, was fantastic. He is very passionate about Lebanon, answered all of our questions about the country and was open to having deep conversations about its history and current events. We learned so much from him! As with all our trips with Lebanon Tours and Travel, the food was exceptional (one of the best we have had in a tour). Overall, a great experience!
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Mukkee
Sep 28, 2023
History with a touch of heart. - What makes a good tour is the knowledge gained and the experiential sentiment afterward. For me, this was a particularly good one. It was incredible to see the ancient cities in Tyre and hear about its amazing history from some very knowledgeable tour guides. Questions were answered expertly and information was provided satisfactorily throughout the tours. At Sidon, apart from seeing the historical sites, the awesome tour guide Hassane took us around the city, through the souks, and along the lovely beaches. We also got to see an old soap-making factory turned museum and had a lovely lunch at a quaint little Lebanese seafood restaurant. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the Lady of Maghdouche due to safety concerns in the area but overall, it was a great experience.
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Seaside67368526326
Sep 12, 2023
Loved it! - Susie and Nassar were amazing, she is filled with knowledge you learn so much from her , this tour is a must it’s so great to experience in Lebanon the history part of it
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Jordy19932014
Aug 9, 2023
Good - A lot of historical places, if you are into that; do this trip! You get a lot of information. Transport was good and lunch perfect.
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Highwsy61
Aug 8, 2023
Fantastic Tour of Southern Lebanon - Every minute of this Tour because Alain is an amazing guide who is an archaeologist as well as a Tour Guide extraordinaire. The itinerary was superb. Ask for Alain . Great sites all the info you could want and much more besides 11/10
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Dgjohansson
Aug 7, 2023
Great tour with an excellent guide - Used this company for 3 different day trips from Beirut and all of them was well organized, punctual and all-in-all very, very good. I made my booking directly with them and that also worked fine. As for the Sidon/Tyre trip, it was amazing our driver and our guide took very well care of us. My tour started with the crusaders castle in Sidon before going into the souk which also was interesting. There was a stop at the soap museum which actually was a positive surprise. A rather short but very informative guided tour where you can cool down from the heat outside and also find good toilets. A very smart, tactical decision to include this in the tour. Then you continue to Tyre where you will be guided around 2 different archaeological sites before having lunch, which in my case was at a nice fish restaurant where the group was served a setup of different Lebanese starters before the fish arrived. All very good. After that the tour returned to Beirut.
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Mary
Jul 26, 2023
Perfect day visiting Tyre, Sidon & Maghdouche - Rita was amazing! She was so knowledgeable and so thorough when explaining the history of all the locations we visited. She explained it with such a sense of pride, that it makes you love visiting Lebanon even more. Thank you Tita for an amazing day exploring Southern Lebanon. And we can’t forget to mention Nasser, our drive. He was so calm driving through the crazy streets of Beirut and was lovely during the entire day! Thanks again Rita, Nasser & Lebanon Tours. Can’t wait to come back!
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Sergey_d
Aug 7, 2023
Good tour to explore southern Lebanon - It was a nice tour with great guide. Good and healthy lunch, but restaurant has outdoor seating that not fully covered from sun, so don't forget sunscreen :) Also we haven't visited some places mentioned in itinerary: the old souk of Tyre, Basilica of Our Lady of Mantara and Khan al-Franj - and no information was given why. And the store in the soap museum was closed.
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