Travel Guide Jouwaya

If you have the opportunity to pass through this village 15 km east of Tyre towards Bazouriyé and Wadi Jalou - Jouwaya is located before the villages of Mjadel and Chehabiyé, you will be surprised by the architectural tastes of the inhabitants. Known as a resort, he has a very strong community of emigrants who have made their fortune in Africa. With millions in their pockets, these families have embarked on a race to the opulence, gigantism and extravagance that sometimes surrounds ridicule. Objective number 1 is to show its wealth. To do this, you don't hesitate to build extra homes with an airplane on the roof or in the shape of Chinese pagoda.In order to make it benefit their family village, these emigrants gave Jouwaya the appearance of a Model Village: renovation of the old souk and the mosque, the paving of roads, the construction of housing for the most disadvantaged and of collective equipment (day care centres, schools, technical centres, dispensaries).There are also «beautiful specimens» of immigrant houses in the village of Haris, southwest of Tibnin.