The BYBLOS TRAILS, Lead the way is a development project under Lebanontrails.com  program.

Objectives:

1. The project aims at creating a coalition between the villages’ residents and the volunteers seeking to revive the historical and natural trails, to develop and implement new pedestrian domains for eco and rural tourism in cooperation with the local community.
2. As a part of Baldati’s national program, LebanonTrails.com, “BYBLOS TRAILS, Lead the way” project aims to map all the traditional Lebanese routs sorted by Cazas and highlight the focal points in those villages as archeological sites, cultural sites, pilgrimage sites, and natural sceneries.
3. In this order, the project will be 1 month and a half being a 10 day-weekend camp (period of 5 weeks) where 50 volunteers will be trained to become skilled in hiking and rehabilitating new trails in 6 different villages in Jbeil, which are: Mayfouq, Bentael, Bejjeh, Maad, Mechmech, Ehmej, Kharbeh, and Lehfed.

Summary and Overview of Specific Objectives of the camps:

• To introduce the volunteers to Eco Tourism through sessions.
• To rehabilitate pedestrian trails in the villages of Lebanon for eco and rural tourism activities, while adopting international standards.
• To highlight and promote the areas as destinations for eco and rural tourism at the national level.
• To teach about the ways of preservation of such trails whilst high pointing the methods of reintegration of naturally based wild life there as well as methods to enhance and take care of plantations.
• To teach about communications skills needed throughout the job as a whole.
• To teach the volunteers ways of management and organization of big ecotourism events, such as the Bikeathon event.

When and Where?

We are meeting each tuesday, thursday, and Sunday weekdays in byblos cultural centre in Jbeil old souks and weekend 1 in ghalboun, weekend 2 bentael, and weekend 3 in Ehmej. 
We have a base camp in Mayfouq where volunteers, when they want, can join us each weekend. 

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