--- title: "Jbaa – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Jbaa, Lebanon: Jbaa, is a municipality in Lebanon located about 22 km from Sidon and 64 km from Beirut. Nearby: Mount Safi. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jbaa" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jbaa.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Famer_House_in_Jbaa_-_panoramio.jpg" --- Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon # Jbaa Jbaa, is a municipality in Lebanon located about 22 km from Sidon and 64 km from Beirut. ![Jbaa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Famer_House_in_Jbaa_-_panoramio.jpg) Jbaa · Wikimedia Commons The place Jbaa, is a municipality in Lebanon located about 22 km from Sidon and 64 km from Beirut. It is part of the Nabatieh Governorate. Jbaa is situated on the great Safi Mountain, and rises over 770 metres (2,530 ft) from the sea level and then begins to rise to 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the district of "Ein-Elsataoun". The village covers over 3,000 acres (12 km2). Surrounding the village is gorgeous greenery including diverse trees, especially walnut trees that spread around most of the town houses. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jbaa), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Jbaa 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. 2.5 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 Jbaa **Airports:** Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 38 km · Damascus (DAM), 93 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 174 km\ - Damascus → Jbaa 71 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · $12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/damascus-to-jbaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Damascus&to=Jbaa) - Amman → Jbaa 175 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · JD13–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/amman-to-jbaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Amman&to=Jbaa) - Tel Aviv → Jbaa 171 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · ₪150–200 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-jbaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Jbaa) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jbaa) 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 Jbaa 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 Jbaa. 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 351 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 435 km 3. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 563 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 Jbaa – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cjbaa&title=Jbaa&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fjbaa), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Jbaa Jbaa is 46 km from [Beirut](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beirut), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Ain Qana](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ain-qana) town in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon 1.6 km - [Kfarfila](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kfarfila) human settlement in Lebanon 1.6 km - [Kfarmelki](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kfarmelki) human settlement in Lebanon 3.9 km - [Louayzeh (Jezzine)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/louayzeh-jezzine) municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon 3.1 km - [Snaiya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/snaiya) municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon 3.7 km - [Bouslaiya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bouslaiya) municipality in South Governorate, Lebanon 2 km [The place page for Jbaa](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/jbaa) [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/jbaa, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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