We drove south to visit the World Heritage Site of the town of Sour (Tyre), and visited the nature reserve on the beach (famous for its turtles, although we saw none). Then onto Qana, where we visited a tourist grotto, the centre of a debate as to whether this is the biblical Qana where Jesus turned water into wine. We saw no wine but instead spotted a huge brown snake with a bulbous head and neck which gave us both quite a shock as it jumped in front of us! We then headed to the centre of the village to the site of the Qana massacre where in 1996, an estimated 800 people were sheltering at the UN peace-keeping base, when the base was shelled by Israel, killing 106 and injuring 120. One of the survivors came and met us and showed us around.
We then headed back to Sour, which was swarming with UN soldiers shopping and taking photos of the archaelogical sites. We walked along the coast and harbour before having a quick look at the archaelogy.
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