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9 days / 8 nights
Day 01: Arrival Tripoli
Arrival at Tripoli airport, meet and assistance and transfer to Tripoli city. Dinner and overnight at your hotel.
Day 02: Tripoli - Leptis Magna - Zliten
Breakfast. Departure to Leptis Magna, one of the best-preserved cities of antiquity. Visit the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Cardo Maximus and Decumanus Maximus, the Palestra, the Baths of Hadrian, the Nymphaeum and the Street of Colonnades, the Severus Forum with adjoining Basilica, the Harbour, and the Old Forum.
visit of the Museum and Amphitheatre, we head to Zliten for dinner and overnight.
Day 03: Zliten – Benghazi
Breakfast. we start our long journey to Benghazi via the coastal road , on the way we stop at the Great man made river project, later arrival to Benghazi , dinner and overnight
Day 04: Benghazi – Cyrene – Al bayda
After breakfast, we head to the beautiful city of Cyrene: we visit the Forum and Agora, The Acropolis Hill (which is still yet to be excavated), the Fountain and the Sanctuary of Apollo, and the Great Temple of Zeus. Later in the afternoon we head back to Al bayda for dinner and overnight
Day 05: Al bayda -Apollonia – Lathroun – Ras el hillal – Al bayda
After breakfast, Excursion to Ancient Apollonia, Cyrene’s port for a thousand years. We visit with the Museum the Extra-Mural Church, the Theatre, and the three churches
afterwards, drive to Lathrun and Ras Al Hillal. Lathrun contains 2 Byzantine Churches in a very good state of conservation. The one on the west imposes herself above the Mediterranean with an impressive place for meditation. The one on the east is just behind the hill. East of Apollonia is the most dramatic scenery of the Libyan coast; the scenery of Ras Al Hillal. The best approach would be from the west with its aggressive mountains and its canyon valleys overlooking the Aljabal Alkhdar.
Return to Al bayda for dinner and overnight.
Day 06: Al bayda – Qaser Libya – Ptolemais - Benghazi (by flight) Tripoli
Breakfast, on our way back to Benghazi we visit Qaser Libya, the residence of the bishop. It has two Churches of great religious interest and afterward Ptolemais, a city founded in the 3rd century BC. We visit the Museum, the Arch of Constantine, the Columns Palace and the great cisterns
Transfer to Benghazi airport and flight to Tripoli for dinner and overnight.
Day 07: Tripoli - Sabratha - Tripoli
Breakfast.
Then, depart to Sabratha and lunch in a local restaurant. Start of the excursion. Sabratha was selected as a trading post by the Phoenician merchants and holds one of the most magnificent and interesting Roman Theater and one of the most splendid mosaics of the Byzantine period. We finish the visit with the Amphitheater, the most notable Roman building.
Return to Tripoli. Dinner and overnight
Day 08: Tripoli visit
Breakfast.
The whole day is dedicated to a visit of Tripoli (the old Oea)
We visit the National Museum, the Ahmed Karamalli Pasha mosque and the old Medina: its narrow alleyways, its elegant mosques and the animated souk.
Free afternoon dinner and overnight
Day 09: Tripoli departure
Breakfast. Transfer to airport and departure for home destination.
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