Covering 5 square km, Lebanese Diaspora Forest is rocky and mountainous area with sharp slopes . Cultivated species belong to the same forest that covered the mountains of Lebanon, similar to the famous Tannourine rice cedar called Cedrus Libani which is the most beautiful and noble among the four other types of Cedar In the world.
In the north of the Mount Lebanon range, between the villages of Tannourine and Laqlouq, ~ 90Km from Beirut.
Shatine - Balaa
Balaa is located in Shatin, an agricultural tourist resort area, famous for its springs and in particular, its fame is based on the presence of sinks in its land, and the most famous of them is Balou Baataraa.
The Baatara gorge sinkhole (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Balaa / Shatine, Lebanon near Tannourine.
The waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft) into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail. The cave is also known as the Cave of the Three Bridges. Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the village of Balaa, and the Three Bridges Chasm (in French Gouffre des Trois Ponts) is a five-minute journey into the valley below where one sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a chasm descending into Mount Lebanon. During the spring melt, a 90–100-metre (300–330 ft) cascade falls behind the three bridges and then down into the 240-metre (790 ft) chasm.
As Lebanon witnesses one of the harshest droughts in 50 years, Balaa Pothole, ranked among the 15th amazing waterfalls in the word
How to reach There:
- Via Jbeil, Annaya, Ehmej, Laqlouq, Shatine/ Balaa
- Via Batroun: Ebrine, Sorat, Tannourine, Shatine/ Balaa
- Via Nahr Inrahim: Nahr Ibrahim, Aakoura, Laqlouq, Shatine / Balaa
- Others…
La forêt contient plusieurs caractéstiques qui lui donnent des caractères de différents points de vue. Elle constitut un programme naturel complet car elle est riche dans la biodiversite et on trouve plusieurs et differents genre de plants et d’animaux et d’arbres de plusieurs especes comme ‘’ 3ofos, lezeb, 3ar3ar l chawki” et elle sont toujours verte et peuvent devenir blue comme “Al kaykab, Al Malloul, Khokh l barre et le chênes etc…
Et comme on peut trouver des plantes uniques: “jonquille, violet, montagne lavande”.
On trouve dans sont entourages plusieurs genres de mammifères: “ les mulots, les sangliers, les renards, les écureuils, les loups, les galopins”. Comme ils passent plusieurs genres d’oiseaux: “Abou Bleik, Abou l7en, Zrei2a, Tayen, Douri”.
Nous avons plusieurs projets dont les plus importants sont:
Dans ces forêts il est strictement interdit de toute activité qui endomage la nature comme allumer un feu, couper les arbres et faire des camps.
