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Village in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon

Ayta al-Jabal

Ayta al-Jabal or Aayta Ej Jabal, also Ayta az-Zutt, is a municipality in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about 112 kilometres (70 mi) from Beirut.

The place

Ayta al-Jabal or Aayta Ej Jabal, also Ayta az-Zutt, is a municipality in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about 112 kilometres (70 mi) from Beirut. The village is situated in the southern outskirts of the town of Tibnin, in the heart of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community of Jabal Amel. The village sits on an elevation of 680 metres (2,230 ft) above sea level.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ayta al-Jabal

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. 01
    Toron

    Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusalem, actually a rear-vassalage of the Principality of Galilee.

    2.3 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ayta al-Jabal

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 72 km · Damascus (DAM), 106 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 138 km
  • Beirut → Ayta al-Jabal
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · $9–12
  • Damascus → Ayta al-Jabal
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · $12–17
  • Amman → Ayta al-Jabal
    145 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · JD13–17
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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 Ayta al-Jabal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    317 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    400 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    527 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    627 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,001 km

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Around it

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