Lebanon is a desert country, right, with people living in tents and riding camels?
See for yourself how “desertic” Lebanon is. The image you have in mind is Saudi Arabia, although even there, not everybody lives in tents anymore. The name Lebanon itself means “white”, in reference to the snow it is covered with in winter.The two mountain chains that make up the country create a barrage for the clouds coming from the Mediterranean, so that they spend themselves, in rain or snow, on Lebanon. We have an abundance of water, a high rate of humidity in the air (about 90%) and a very moderate weather. As a comparison, I was recently in the States and Beirut never gets as hot as New Jersey does. It’s not for nothing that the Bible calls it “the land of milk and honey”, and praises its cedars — which are not the only plant species to be native to the area, by the way. Several dozen plant species are found only here, including many orchids and (funnily) the white lily that is now the symbol of French royalty.
