Changelog

Petrol, diesel, mazout and the 10 kg gas cylinder at the prices the Ministry of Energy and Water sets — each one per litre and per 20-litre canister, with the date of the decision that set it and how it has moved. It also prices the things those numbers actually buy here: a tank, the run down to the coast and back, the pickup that takes the fruit to market, the mazout fill before the snow, a month of cooking gas.

Winter by winter, how many chill hours the mountain gave the trees, and how many days it froze between mid-March and mid-May. Counted from the weather record for the village's own altitude, ten seasons at a time. It is a count of hours, not advice about anyone's orchard.

Put in what you used and see what the bill should be at the official maximum, then compare it with what your operator charges. The figure is read from the Ministry of Energy and Water's own table each time the page is built, with the date the ministry issued it printed underneath. Bekaa Kafra sits at about 1,800 m, so the page uses the highland rate the ministry allows above 700 m rather than asking you to know that.

The feast guide used to name a specific year's third-Sunday date, which went stale once that day passed. It now describes the recurring dates plainly and points to 'The Bekaa Kafra Year' for the exact day each year.

Bekaa Kafra now has a short guide to money and paying — that this is a cash economy where US dollars do most of the work, why to draw what you need in Beirut or Tripoli before the drive up, and what returning families should know about bringing money in. Written for the summer, when the village fills again.

The town's new page header shows Bekaa Kafra in deep snow: terraced apple and cherry orchards stepping down toward the Qadisha Valley, with the high ridge of Qurnat as-Sawda beyond.

The drive from Beirut and the airport up to the highest village in Lebanon — the route through Bsharri, roughly how long it takes, how to travel it by coach and shared taxi if you don't drive, and how the mountain road closes in a winter storm.

The dates the village lives by, always sorted to what comes next: the Maronite feast of Saint Charbel (the third Sunday of July — this year the 19th), the Roman-calendar feast on the 24th, and the summer months when the village fills again. The feast Sunday is computed each year, so the page stays right on its own.

Bekaa Kafra, the highest village in Lebanon, is now on the platform with four tools built for life at 1,800 metres. A new Snow & the Road Up tool reads the mountain forecast for the village's own altitude and says in plain words how much snow is coming and lying now — pointing you to the official channels for whether the road is open. There's also a guide to visiting Saint Charbel's birthplace with the feast dates, a place for residents and the village's diaspora to share local picks, and the emergency numbers and nearest hospital a household or visitor needs.