Jeita Cave Nature in Lebanon

Jeita Cave Nature in Lebanon

The Jeita Grotto is located in Wadi Al-Kalb Valley, about 20 km north of Beirut. It consists of two layers, the upper layer or cave and the lower cave.

Jeita Grotto is a cave with cavities and narrow reefs, corridors, structures and halls sculpted by nature, leaking water from the heights of Lebanon to form, over time, a world of domes, sculptures, shapes and formations. Lebanese are considered the jewel of Lebanese tourism, and have been discovered throughout history by foreign pioneers and Lebanese adventurers.

Upper Cave
The Upper Cave was opened in January 1969, after it was discovered in 1958 and qualified for the visit by the Lebanese engineer, artist and sculptor Ghassan Klink. In a musical ceremony held within it specially prepared for this occasion French musician Francois Pale. The Upper Grotto followed a similar musical festival in November of the same year, in which world music by Karl Heinz Stokhausen was performed. This layer of the grotto is characterized by giving its visitors the pleasure of walking for a distance, after crossing a tunnel of length of about 120 meters, to walk in the corridors then the great vaults of the height, and distributed in the Jordan Valley in addition to the stalagmites and stalactites and lime and other forms of dazzling.

Lower Grotto

The discovery of the lower part of the cave dates back to the 1930s with a trip to American missionary William Thompson. Thompson had penetrated about 50 meters. After shooting from the hunting rifle he was carrying, he realized through the echo of the gunfire that the cave had a very important geographical extension