How to Get Around Lebanon

Getting in is through Beirut’s Rafic Hariri airport, effectively the only entry point — the land border with Israel is closed and crossings to Syria depend on conditions.

Driving is how most visitors get around, and the country is small enough that everything is a day trip from Beirut. Roads are reasonable, drivers are assertive, lane markings are advisory, and mountain roads in winter need care. Fuel shortages have been recurrent since the economic collapse.

A car with a driver for the day is inexpensive and is what many visitors do, since it removes the navigation and parking problems at once.

Shared vans and buses connect the coastal cities and the Bekaa cheaply, leaving when full rather than to a timetable.

Taxis: agree a price first, or use a service, the shared taxi that picks up along a route. Bolt operates in Beirut.

There is no passenger rail. The network was destroyed in the civil war and never rebuilt.