You know its going to end in trouble when Aussie girls head out to the middle east without even a clue in their pocket, but that's what we did anyway.
We started with an awesome trip in to the Bekaa Valley- yes folks Hezbollah territory- but stopped on the way at the Ksara vineyard. After telling our driver it would be an hour we rolled out giggling 3 hours later. How were we supposed to know that there was a video, a tour, mega wine tasting (not like the piddly amount you normally get) and then it would have been rude if we didn't take some time to drink a few bottles in their nice house thing. In Oz its just a case of rocking up to the tasting with your 'i know what i'm doing and i intend to buy' face on, grab as much tasters as you can get and then sneak out at the first chance their attention leaves you.
so it was back into the car and on to Baalbek which is right in hezbollah head quarters but has some gorgeous ancient ruins/temples. we got to have a wander around, literally on them, posing for piccies and just plain being stupid. on the way out we grabbed a few beers and jumped into the car. now it turns out that the town is supposed to be completely dry (i guess that's the hezbo influence) so our driver had a panic attack about the beers. i guess it makes sense why we got the beer out of a locked fridge. oh well, we just scootched down in the car and drank our beer camando style (no not without pants).
it tuns out that Bekaa valley is most famous for dope which is weird considering the freak out about the beer but to be honest- didn't really see any evidence of it at all.
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