Special Hike from HADCHIT at ANNOUBINE VALLEY
Special Hike from HADCHIT at ANNOUBINE VALLEY
The 🔭 view you get to see from the top ⛰ of the valley at Hadchit village is 🍂🍁🍂 beyond imagination. Once there, you get the feeling of 🕊 peace and ❤️tranquility. The 🙏 spiritual atmosphere reigns over the entire valley.
📌 HIKE LOCATION : Qadicha Valley – Wadi Annoubine/ Becharre Districts
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North, 1200 meters above sea level, 25 km from Chekka.
⏳ WHEN : Sunday, December 28, 2025
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🕢 ENCOUNTER PLACE : Mar Maroun Church Parking, Dora @ 7:30 AM
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Driving directions to Mar Maroun https://dalecorazon.com/contact/
Or Martyrs Square at Al-Nahar Bldg., Beirut Downtown @ 7:10 AM
💰 FEES:
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20 $ including 🚌 transport (comfortable air-conditioned Pullman), professional guides, coffee, 5 minutes of warming up, stretching, and pictures.
Children 18 years old and younger will have a discount of 10%. (18$/person)
Every 3 coupons can be exchanged for a free hiking trip.
Optional transportation by your own 🚗 vehicles 15 $/person
📜 DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT:
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Annoubine’s history dates back to ⚱️ the 7th century. It has 💒 monasteries and sanctuaries spread all over the gorge, in the form of caves or churches.
Since the early centuries of Christianity, the 🕊 Holy Valley has served as a refuge for those in search of solitude. Historians believe that the Kadisha Valley has had monastic communities continuously since the 🏺 earliest years of Christianity. It was also at times a destination for Muslim mystics, or Sufis, who also visited it for meditation and solitude.
🌿🥾 HIKING LEVEL. 1 to 3 for easy, 4 to 6 for intermediate, 7 to 9 for strenuous
Our hike will be divided into 2 levels.
🥇 Level 4. (8 km, approx. 3:00Hr) We will start our 🚶 walk from Hadchit village; its name means “new” in Phoenician language. We will pass by an old mill and the 💒 monastery of Saints Sarkis & Bakhos which was built in the 11th century. It is a path of 1 km until we reach the main road where we will take a small 🚌 bus to Saidet Kannoubine monastery, from there we will continue the second part of our path of 8 km downhill the valley, crossing waterfalls and many 🏛 ruins of old houses and hermitages till we reach Fraydis village.
🥈 Level 5. (13 km, approx. 4:00Hr) We will start our🥾 walk from Hadchit village as Level 4; We will pass by an old mill and the monastery of Saints Sarkis & Bakhos. It is a path of 3 km 🍂🍁🍂 until we reach the main road that will lead us to Saydet Qannoubine monastery, one of the oldest Monasteries in Lebanon, it was built in a rocky pit, most probably by 🏛 Byzantine emperor Theodos the Great in 379 – 395 A.C. and it became the seat of the Maronite Patriarch in the 15th century and remained so for 500 years. The monastery was rehabilitated in 1990 and is now used by the Antonine Sisters. We will have 🍞 lunch in small green forestry by the main road. From there we will continue the second part of our path of 8 km downhill the valley, crossing 🪜 waterfalls and many ruins of old houses and hermitages till we arrive at Fraydis village.
🎒 WHAT TO TAKE:
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Healthy snacks that will boost up your energy such as dried fruits, lunch, water, cap, sunglasses and sunscreen. Wear comfortable walking shoes (A professional brand is recommended) and don’t forget to get a light jacket. DC members get a 20% discount on sports equipment in Sports 4 Ever branches.
==There will be a breakfast stop along the way==
☎️ FOR RESERVATION AND INFO:
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