JEITA Grotto

      Undoubtedly, the JEITA Grotto in the governorate of Mount Lebanon is one of the most famous caves the world beautiful and spacious. In cavities and tunnels drilled natural water turned to silent, sculptor work carries millions of years in the composition of the worlds great sculptures domes did not extend to human hand and did not contribute to the beauty of any imagination.

The JEITA Grotto is located in dog River Valley, 20 kilometers (12 miles) North of Beirut, and the presence of two layers: the top layer is dry and the bottom layer which flows River groundwater constitutes the underwater part of dog River.

And the lower Cave was opened for the first time to the public in October 1958, in upper Cave opened January 1969 after he qualified by architect and sculptor Ghassan Klenke Germany Navy attach said, at the ceremony, which included playing electronic music for this occasion musician Francois Bale. It was organized in the cave after this a similar Festival in October of the same year, which played songs for the famous German musician Karl hanis shtokaozn.

Since discovering the caves remained and rehabilitation of Lebanese and tourists ' attention Kiss foreigners that shook Lebanon war, which led to a close and the destruction of installations, buildings and equipment in 1975 and then reopened after the era of rehabilitation to mabus company private on 6 July 1995 where kidnaps have become a tourist facility.

Back discover the lower JEITA in modern times to the 1930s, when American missionary William Tamoun access after being fired from the shotgun. Through the DOI outdoor echo firewall, realized that the cave extension Gouveia, a few years after that incident, two engineers work Beirut, Maxwell wehaksli, the discovery of dog River. As most of the explorers in the world without group members names and date of their trip on a paper sheet and put it in a flask on top of limestone covered with water rising over time to control sealed forever, and made it an integral part of the base that day.

Either the upper cave has remained unknown to 1958 until a team of explorers Lebanese caves accessible from inside the cave bottom then penetrated them today about 2130 metres. This is the first case of cave Grotto. You have previously configured the lower cave formation in a few million years, i.e. before the geological modification downstream, that settled in the underground level is today.

Where rose candles? And where those cuttings that hung one impression that watch them and not see? And those exotic colors how to meet and intersect of overlapping light and shadow? It is almost incredible what the visitor sees. Each painting and sculpture schools met here to come and embrace each other not to repel each other, offering the greatest carved in human history.

How much ivory statues and rare wahdelt filed form cuttings in accordance with natural style unmatched style and how honest poet shahdeh while wrote a poem about the cave under the title «JEITA rocks sings» said: «this is Marvel Cave of freedom, those who have minds Notepad find in this place filled with memories of childhood: Sinbad, Alice in Wonderland and Jules Verne. And the cave bear in the stomach really sings through the pot rocks and ascent, via the many and her braids had spilled drop musically.

The incursion across the lower Grotto requires the use of a boat from the small boats by the Department for this purpose. And breathtaking beauty starts when you begin the journey. Trip lasts a few minutes but the impressive beauty of verses reveal; Where natural pits carved ceilings, calcareous deposits rise sometimes sometimes hang, decorated with ivory white and Red coral. The light of an underwater rocks from above tnfelsh and retracts, imagine that on a journey throughout the forest enchanted, where trees and grass so the spirit, walking and boat works of imagination and hear the ear and the mind wonders. Then one realizes that this Presto transparent air of making music, while Petting the dangling consistent up to 8 meters, composed organ machine, knows that JEITA saw creativity before witnessing the human making any musical instrument.

And from the lower to the upper Grotto cave. Greets you in the hallway talking sound effects like purl and twittering. And while winding walkway that runs through the belly of the cave with a distance of 800 metres depth you think you see what I saw in the cave. But you soon realize your mistake. This cave boys larger than her sister millions years and hanging sculptures and high and bigger and you think it's more mature than the first. Some of those who were fired they probed cave and rehabilitation since the 1950s, the name «gallery» that the spacious lobby, which will soon be narrowed even over other spaces. It is actually more like a natural gallery which includes sculptures and engravings and the Decorator of the multiple forms which fascinates from the perceived severity of charm and serenity and natural beauty. Walk up the first driveway in cave and imagine what you like and fancy as you like and return your place thousands thousands of years back. And imagine how these sediments have a point but tear tear.

He graduated from upper cave stands another senseless and fascinated by what I saw in that journey that resemble flights of fantasy. If I thought that one visit is sufficient for the quenching of these natural treasures and the beauties and masterpieces, you are mistaken. What is the emerge even calculates you need to visit the caves once, twice and thrice.