 | Death by Souq
2009-11-14, Aleppo, Syria. By: mala | | There is evidence that Aleppo has been continuously inhabited for 8000 years. It may be older than Damascus, but it's less charming and tourist-friendly, so it gets less visitors. Aleppo is a city for... |
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 | Hama and Hospitaliers
2009-11-12, Hama, Syria. By: mala | | The city of Hama is famous for it giant wooden water wheels, called norias. They are picturesque to be sure, but are not the predominant feature of the place. What strikes me most about Hama is the ge... |
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 | Dreamy Hubris in the Desert
2009-11-11, Palmyra, Syria. By: mala | | The rise and fall of Palmyra is a simple case of hubris. The city's location was key: an oasis in the desert along the spice caravan from the east where merchants passing through could be housed, fed ... |
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 | Pleasant Pavements of Damascus
2009-11-09, Damascus, Syria. By: mala | | Since Damascus is vying for oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, it should look slightly decrepit. I was picturing unpaved and narrow streets, filthy and labyrinthine, along the lines of F... |
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| To the castle
2009-09-26, Hama, Syria. By: frankieboy | | Syria
24/9/2009
Getting into Syria was what the Yemenis call a fish market and what the cruder among us (me) call a shit show. It reminded me of a scene from a movie where is shows a stock marke... |
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 | Syria doesn't Souk!
2006-10-11, Damascus, Syria. By: thenomads | | We ended up croosing the border between Turkey and Syria around 930 pm, that was the plan because it shouldn't be too busy and it should be a "quick" crossing. We sat in Turkey for over an hour, we a... |
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 | Journal of the rest of the holiday
2006-04-21, Damascus, Syria. By: pete_k | | As I said, I didn’t put an update up on this site every day of the holiday. I’m back in Lebanon now so I’m writing these final details of my Syrian Backpacking Adventure. I’ll try to continue where I ... |
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| Arriving in Syria
2006-04-17, Damascus, Syria. By: pete_k | | I can't promise I'll put any more updates here. I'm only doing this because I want to sit down for a while in this Internet Café.
We arrived in Damascus yesterday, after quite an unnecessarily long... |
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 | Moses' Hot Bedouin Carvings
2004-10-01, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Syria. By: vorn | | continuing north from egypt...
jordan
less sand more rocks. more westernised. less 'owstraaleeya' yelled at you as you walk down the street
desert jeep 'safari' (rally) thru wadi rum awesome.... |
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