Tripoli is Lebanon’s second ;largest city and sits far to the north, near the border with Syria. Though it looks far on a map, its distance is only 50 miles, or just over an hour away from the main city of Beirut, but it feels a world different. Gone are the glassy skyscrapers and glamorous shopping of Beirut, but instead it feel like stepping back into an older era. Winding old alleys are flanked by hectic shopping streets, pierced with historic minarets and over shadowed by an 11th century castle dominating the hillside. Not too far is the town of Mina, a quaint fishing village on the Mediterranean Sea where I ecountered local fishermen and found remnants of the Orient Express, an old railway that once linked the small middle eastern nation. Tripoli was a wondrous journey through time periods and cultures and here’s how it went….

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