Batroun is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest cities
in the world.
Batroun is a major tourist destination in North Lebanon.
The town boasts historic churches, a citadel, old streets, Phoenician wall and
is also a major beach resort with a vibrant nightlife.
Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon
Mountain Trail. The cave is also known as the Cave of the Three Bridges.
Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the village of Balaa, and the
Three Bridges Chasm is a five-minute journey into the valley below where one
sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a chasm
descending into Mount Lebanon.
During the spring melt, a 90–100-metre cascade falls behind the three bridges
and then down into the 240-metre chasm. The Gorge is dry in the summer.