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Table of Contents: Travel to Tyre, visa requirements / Get around / Tyre attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Tyre souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Tyre nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out More from Lebanon: Baalbek tourist attractions, Beirut hotels and youth hostels, Bekaa hotels and youth hostels, Byblos hotels and youth hostels, Lebanon Mountain Trail tourist attractions, Mount Lebanon hotels and youth hostels, North Lebanon hotels and youth hostels, Sidon culture, South Lebanon travel tours, Tripoli (Lebanon) hotels and youth hostels, Tyre tourist attractions More from Middle East: Bahrain culture, Dead Sea travel tours, Empty Quarter travel tours, Golan Heights hotels and youth hostels, Holy Land hotels and youth hostels, Iran culture, Iraq tourist attractions, Israel hotels and youth hostels, Jordan tourist attractions, Kuwait souvenirs, Lebanon souvenirs, Levant hotels and youth hostels, Oman souvenirs, Qatar hotels and youth hostels, Saudi Arabia travel tours, Syria hotels and youth hostels, United Arab Emirates hotels and youth hostels, Yemen souvenirs More from Asia: Caucasus culture, Central Asia hotels and youth hostels, East Asia travel tours, Middle East tourist attractions, Southeast Asia culture More from Travel Tips 24: Africa travel tours, Asia tourist attractions, Europe tourist attractions, North America tourist attractions, Oceania tourist attractions, South America culture Popular destinations Istanbul (Marmara region ) souvenirs, Barcelona (Catalonia) souvenirs, Rome (Lazio) tourist attractions, Singapore (Southeast Asia) travel tours, Western Europe (Europe) hotels and youth hostels, South Africa (Southern Africa) travel tours, United Kingdom (Western Europe) culture, Europe (Home) tourist attractions, Vancouver (Greater Vancouver) souvenirs, Morocco (North Africa) tourist attractions

Tyre (Arabic: Sour) is in a city in Lebanon.

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Travel to Tyre, visa requirements

Taxis from Beirut will cost some 20 to 30 U$D, minibusses and other local transportation are much cheaper, around 1 to 3 U$D.

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Get around

You can get around the small city of Tyre by taxi, on foot or by local transportation. Taxis are pretty cheap and some are even comfortable to travel in.

Traffic is typical Lebanese - if you want to go, you must go regardless of the 'western' way of thinking in the traffic.

If you can't find a taxi, even some locals can offer you a ride inside the city, if you ask nicely.

The main hotel in the city is located on the beach with minibusses departing towards Beirut just a short walk away.

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Tyre attractions and sightseeing

Ancient Roman ruins in the city: parts of a city, cemetery and a large hippodrome, which is said to be the filming site for the multi-Oscar-winning Ben Hur.

The city is located on a peninsula extending west to the Mediterranean. The most western point is a nice place to observe the sun go down.

Also the markets in the western parts of the city are worth seeing.

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City tours

Nothing much to do around this small city except to bask in the sun during the hot summer months. Diving and other watersports can offer something to do and the few archeological sites are quickly done.

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Shopping, Tyre souvenirs

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Good restaurants and cheap meals

Good places to have a meal:

Skandars: Lebanese and international cuisine, beer, wine liquors

The Resthouse: Lebanese and international cuisine, beer, wine liquors

Al Fanar: Lebanese and international cuisine, beer, wine liquors

Tyros: Fish,, Lebanese and international cuisine, beer, wine liquors

Baquettos: Fast food

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Tyre nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.

See above, also Diver's Inn. Night life is not so active, as there are no night clubs. The UN people might have a night out at the Skandars or the Diver's Inn.

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Hotels, youth hostels, lodging

Perhaps the only place worth staying is the Resthouse hotel on the beach. The beach and the pool is exclusively only to the hotel's guests although others can use them too by paying a small fee - this fee is mostly to keep 'unwanted people' off the premises.

At the beach you can order drinks, narghile, rent a sun chair or perhaps attend a diving course.

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Get out

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