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...

I have not been struck by lightening on the road to Damascus. I am still a sinner
2009-09-30, Damascus, Syria. By: frankieboy

9/30/09 Damascus is one of a few cities that I have visited that claims to be the world’s oldest city (Byblos and Sana’a being two of the others) so I got out my cell phone video camera and set of...

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...

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 ...

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...