Aammiq Wetland — Local services in Mount Lebanon Governorate

I love wetlands because they provide food and habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals, act as buffers to flooding and erosion, and serve as key links in the global water cycle. This is what I discovered today in Ammiq, and it was fantastic. You can spend more than 4 hours visiting the whole place. I like the idea of adding nest platforms for some birds along water bodies and restoring damaged areas by planting native plants. Ammiq wetland is well organised, people are smiling welcoming. Maybe you can add some direction signs and elaborate on some trees and plants that we see while...

It’s a beautiful area to do in spring or autumn because few presence of shadow. The parking in the other side of the road without any artificial system for reducing speed of the cars on a very trafficated road, is dangerous. The area was burned, probably due a fire, so birds pratically absent. During all the path doesn’t exist any observation point or bunch just for resting and observe the nature. 5 USD per...

The bio reserve is truly a gem. During the hike you get the chance to discover lots of animals, insects and plants personally I didn’t know we had in Lebanon.

During our visit we were informed that soon they will have bikes, and you can bike around the wetlands (if the soil was dry enough)

It’s definitely a hike worth doing during summer time and winter, you get to see the reserve in 2 different phases...