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Today I was sick, probably from drinking from a contaminated spring. Well, contamination is relative... I didn't have the required immunity ;-) I still had a lovely time walking around in Aaqoura. It was actually a nice change and my knees needed the rest too. There was plenty of exploring to do and after finding a convenience store to get some mobile credit and a can of iced tea I walked down the road to the foot of a cliff where there was a massive concrete spiral staircase up to a Mary statue. It was called 'Our Lady of Prison', fairly hilarious but I never found out why it was given that name. Have a look at the pics for what I saw. One cool thing was they illuminated it at night, along with a string of smaller statues around to the left so you could see them from the other side of the valley. They really are serious about their religion in Lebanon. I guess with the French declaring the country a sanctuary for Maranite Xians there would be a fair amount of vigor in the belief here. When people have persecution bound up in the tradition it's probably likely there will be a degree of extra devoutness and pride just to show the people that once tried to kill them.
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