--- title: "Ayta al-Jabal – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ayta al-Jabal, Lebanon: Ayta al-Jabal or Aayta Ej Jabal, also Ayta az-Zutt, is a municipality in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ayta-al-jabal" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ayta-al-jabal.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayta_al-Jabal), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toron) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beirut-to-ayta-al-jabal) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beirut&to=Ayta+al-Jabal) - Damascus → Ayta al-Jabal 90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · $12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-ayta-al-jabal) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Ayta+al-Jabal) - Amman → Ayta al-Jabal 145 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · JD13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-ayta-al-jabal) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Ayta+al-Jabal) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ayta%20al-Jabal) 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 Ayta al-Jabal 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. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 317 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 400 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 527 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 627 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,001 km If you know how people move in Ayta al-Jabal – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cayta-al-jabal&title=Ayta+al-Jabal&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fayta-al-jabal), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ayta al-Jabal - [Tebnine](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tebnine) town in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon 2 km - [Haddatha](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haddatha) Village in Lebanon 2.5 km - [Baraachit](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/baraachit) city in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon 3.3 km - [Hariss](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hariss) human settlement in Lebanon 2.9 km - [As-Sultaniyah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/as-sultaniyah) village in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon 3.3 km - [Beit Yahoun](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beit-yahoun) city in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon 2.2 km [The place page for Ayta al-Jabal](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ayta-al-jabal) [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/ayta-al-jabal, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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