--- title: "Ain Qana – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ain Qana, Lebanon: Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon. Nearby: Mount Safi. Every way there…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ain-qana" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ain-qana.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Cemetery_at_Ain_Qana%2C_Nabatieh_Governorate%2C_Lebanon%2C_Autumn%2C_2007.jpg" --- Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon # Ain Qana Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon. ![Ain Qana](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Cemetery_at_Ain_Qana%2C_Nabatieh_Governorate%2C_Lebanon%2C_Autumn%2C_2007.jpg) Ain Qana · Wikimedia Commons The place Ain Qana, also known as Ainqana, is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain_Qana), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ain Qana One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Mount Safi Mount Safi, also known as Jabal Safi is a mountain located in the southernmost part of the Mount Lebanon mountain range. It has an elevation of at least 1,300 meters, with a prominence of around 222 meters. 3.4 km · mountain in Lebanon · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Safi) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Ain Qana **Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 39 km · Damascus (DAM), 94 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 173 km\ - Damascus → Ain Qana 74 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · $12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-ain-qana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Ain+Qana) - Amman → Ain Qana 173 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · JD13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-ain-qana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Ain+Qana) - Tel Aviv → Ain Qana 168 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · ₪150–200 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-ain-qana) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Ain+Qana) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ain%20Qana) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Ain Qana Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ain Qana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in A minibus from Beirut's Cola station costs 2000 L.L. From [Wikivoyage: Sidon](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sidon), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 350 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 434 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 561 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 617 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 994 km If you know how people move in Ain Qana – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cain-qana&title=Ain+Qana&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fain-qana), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ain Qana Ain Qana is 47 km from [Beirut](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beirut), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Jbaa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jbaa) human settlement in Lebanon 1.4 km - [Kfarfila](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kfarfila) human settlement in Lebanon 1.5 km - [Jarjouh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jarjouh) human settlement in Lebanon 3 km - [Louayzeh (Jezzine)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/louayzeh-jezzine) municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon 2.7 km - [Bouslaiya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bouslaiya) municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon 3.2 km [The place page for Ain Qana](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ain-qana) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Lebanon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-LB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ain-qana, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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