The highlight of a trip to the Levant was a day trip to Baalbek in Lebanon. The largest Roman temple ever discovered is on the site of the second-millennium Canaanite temple to Baal. This site compares to the Valley of the Kings in Karnak in Egypt, the palaces of St.
In contrast to the rather organized (for a third-world country) north, with its hotels, Christian churches and towns, southern Ethiopia is rural and tribal and has few amenities for Westerners. In the south, the majority of the people are Muslims or animists.
