page_title: Ain W Zain
section_title: Ain W Zain Natural Grotto
hierarchical_section_title: Ain W Zain / Landmarks / Ain W Zain Natural Grotto
caption_attribution_description: English: Ain W Zain Natural Grotto, Lebanon
context_page_description: Ain W Zain also known as Ain Wazein is a Lebanese village in the Chouf District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate
context_section_description: The Grotto is located in Ain Wazein on an altitude of 1040 meters above sea level.  It is 54 km from Beirut, and 9 km away from Beit-Eddine, center of the Shouf district.
  The Grotto that extends for 426 meters (till now) lies on Ain Wazein-Batloun road, near the northern end of Ain Wazein.
  The grotto was discovered in 2003. The preparation process lasted three years thanks to personal efforts.
  The grotto includes a set of passageways, crevices or halls, and vaults of varied width and height. These natural formations resulted from accumulated water and its pressure.
  The grotto includes many distinct formations of stalagmites and stalactites, and other dangling rock formations. It is one of the most beautiful grottos found in Lebanon, with its varied natural calcareous formations.
  Ain Wazein natural grotto is considered an important highly visited tourist site. It is situated in a beautiful natural environment.
  The grotto enjoys a scientific, as well as a historic significance. It is considered to be a continuous underground tourist site, and it serves in discovering the subsurface world.
  Ain Wazein grotto has beautiful calcareous formations found in its passages and sides. It is possible to organize scientific tours for high school and university students. This is possible because all geologic elements are clear in the grotto. It is possible also to carry out scientific research on its structural features.
  Cavities and tunnels just like galleries, carved silently by the hands of water in the hollows of earth.
  Creating worlds of domes, and sculptures is a wonderful work that lasted for a million years. Human hands and imagination did not participate in creating its beauty. Carving and painting schools met together in this grotto, in order to reconcile and embrace in a common cause; to produce a distinguished sculpture added to the worlds of the charming Lebanese nature.
  Discovered in the year 2003, Ain Wazein Natural Grotto harbors rocks changed to narrow and branching passages, by waters flowing from the hollows of earth. Natural sculptures, suspended from its ceiling, flow in a musical procession along the notes of falling water droplets.
  At the end, we should not forget the great efforts that ALES club made in making Ain Wazein Grotto a touristic place.
caption: Ain W Zain Grotto.
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