One of the amateur speleologists of Iktashef Akkar in awe of the stalactites and stalagmites of the newly discovered chasm in Tasheh, in Akkar, northern Lebanon. (Credit: Abdelkader Abdelmajid)
About two months ago, a resident of the village of Tasheh in Akkar, northern Lebanon, accidentally discovered a huge cavity on his property while moving a rock to clear the way for a road construction project. Read more Environmental cost of Israeli strikes in Lebanon exceeds $500M He instinctively contacted a local ecotourism group called Iktashef Akkar (Discover Akkar). That’s when they realized it was a natural sinkhole that nobody had known existed until then.“We have the necessary equipment for caving and have already explored caves and discovered one in the village of Rahbeh in 2020, but descending into a sinkhole — especially one that’s unexplored — was a first for us,” Abdelkader Abdelmajid, president of the association, told L’Orient-Le Jour.The stalactites and stalagmites photographed in the Tasheh chasm, late April 2026....
About two months ago, a resident of the village of Tasheh in Akkar, northern Lebanon, accidentally discovered a huge cavity on his property while moving a rock to clear the way for a road construction project. Read more Environmental cost of Israeli strikes in Lebanon exceeds $500M He instinctively contacted a local ecotourism group called Iktashef Akkar (Discover Akkar). That’s when they realized it was a natural sinkhole that nobody had known existed until then.“We have the necessary equipment for caving and have already explored caves and discovered one in the village of Rahbeh in 2020, but descending into a sinkhole — especially one that’s unexplored — was a first for us,” Abdelkader Abdelmajid, president of the association, told L’Orient-Le Jour.The stalactites and stalagmites photographed in the Tasheh chasm,...
