Libya - Program 7

Your arrival day to Tripoli airport. Meet and Assist. Then take a flight to Benghazi. Over night at hotel.

After wakeup, breakfast and checking out, visit to Tokera ruins
(a city of Spartan origin that was ruled by the ptlomic dynasty, and later became a Cresco-Roman settlement and the most important Byzantine site in Cyrenaica) the distance from Benghazi is 60KM then continuing the transfer to visit Ptolomais ruins (which founded in 3rd century BC . one of the important cities of penta-polis). the distance from Tokera to Ptolemaic is 45 KM., then over night at Al baida about 100KM far.

After wakeup and breakfast, visit to Cyrene(founded in 631.BC. by the group of settlers who had fled the famine that was ravaging the island of
Thera and located the Libyan coast the eternal spring indicted by Delphic oracle) about 16 KM from Al baida. After lunch visit to Soussa,
Apollonia (the original port of Cyrene that became the capital of region in 5th century AD) about 25 KM from Al baida . Over night at Al baida.

After wakeup, breakfast, and checking out .the transfer is devoted to visit Slunta cave, Libyan Hellenistic civilization, about 50 km, from Al baida , and Quasar Libya (where the Byzantine church 5th century AD), and the museum of mosaics . then continue the transfer back to Benghazi to take after noon flight to Tripoli , Over night hotel . then drive strictly to Gerain about 80 KM from Tripoli. Over night at Gerian hotel.

After wakeup, breakfast, and checkout. Transfer to Ghadames, about 570 KM from Gerian, passing of some barber old cities through the old caravan way . Over night hotel.

Full day at old city of Ghadames with it’s museum and it’s landscape.
(City of barber and tawaregs) the Jewel of desert, famous for it’s houses with their incredible architecture and decoration. Over night hotel.

After early wakeup, breakfast and checkout, transfer back to Gerian with visits to some Jabel Nafoussa mountain’s cities, some barber and Islamic cities through the old caravan way and the underground houses of Gerian , in places like Dwamis (Catacombs ) built as a refuge from the scorching summer heat . Over night hotel.

After wakeup, breakfast, and checking out, the transfer devoted to visit Leptis Magna ruins about 123KM east of Tripoli. for a full day .(Roman city that under the genes Septimius Severus became one of the most prominent cities in the ancient world in the terms of strategic importance and city planning .it was founded by the
Phoenicians at mouth of Wadi libci in the 1st century BC ) . Over night at Tripoli.

After wakeup, breakfast, and checking out, transfer to make a short visit to the international museum of Tripoli (Jamahiriya museum), and old city {OEA. One of the three- polis}.Then drives to the airport, about 25 KM from center Tripoli for your departure flight.