Given all the conflict that the country has endured since 1979 with corruption and the Iranian-backed anti-Israel Hezbollah terrorist organisation that authorities have been seemingly powerless to stop, the people spoken to here are surprisingly positive; moreover the downtown is surprisingly restored and clean. There aren no homeless and no beggars seen which you get in Democrat Party-controlled cities in America.

People speak English and no hijabs are seen! The country is actually about 40% Christian. Actually, after Arabic, French is a recognised minority language in Liban a.k.a. Lebanon, a legacy from the French Mandate after WW1, although it may not be spoken much.

As in several countries in South America, the ATMs will dispense US dollars as well as the local currency notes which have lots of zeros after the digits, alhough there is a $15 fee for such a transaction (in the US you can expect to pay $4-5 with a foreign card.)