Advantages: Fascinating old city with mosques, markets and monuments galore. Disadvantages: Too hot in summer, miserable in winter, polluted and chaotic traffic
?t have a choice in the old city, where you?ll spend most of your time, and most of the hotels (except the Sheraton) are les than ten minutes walk from the entrance to Souq Al-Hamidiyya. For trips up to Salihiyyeh or further afield, taxis are relatively cheap if you can persuade the driver to turn on the meter?if not, just get out and flag down another. The local bus and minibus network is excellent once you get to know the routes, but as they are only written in Arabic, I guess most tourists won?t bother.
DAY TRIPS FROM DAMASCUS
To visit other parts of Syria, Damascus has a bewildering array of bus stations. Double check at your hotel which one you should head to, as trusting my guidebook sent me all over the place. Destinations within a couple of hours of Damascus include:
- the Christian village of Ma?aloula, where Aramaic (the ...
Advantages: Beautiful and ancient city Disadvantages: Not well advertised
Well! today I'll write about Damascus, the capital of Syria.
First of all it is interesting to learn that Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world! It is now the biggest city in Syria with about quarter of the 16-million population of Syria live in greater Damascus.
Damascus is famous for the Ghouta Oasis, river Barada, Damascus university which is the largest in Syria and was established in 1903 and the city's international airport,.
The main attraction of Damascus are:
- National Museum: Contains a fantastic array of exhibits, including written cylinders from the 14th century BC that use the world's first known alphabet, statuary from Mari that's over 4000 years old, two halls full of marble and terracotta statues from Palmyra, Damascene weapons, old surgical instruments from surgeons' graves ...
Advantages: Very clean; has an ATM in the lobby; polite and helpful English-speaking reception staff Disadvantages: No restaurants within easy reach; 25% charged on top of advertised food and drink prices
We stayed one night at the Carlton Hotel, Damascus recently on a whistlestop (independent, rather than organised) tour of Syria. Hotel reservations for the trip had been made on our behalf by a Syrian travel agency, who assured us that accommodation had been booked but did not actually advise the names of the specific hotels, so we had been unable to do any "checking up" in advance.
Having spent the previous night in a beautiful hotel in the centre of old Aleppo (the Dar Maria, located in sympathetically restored old houses with lovely courtyards, fountains etc), I was very disappointed with both the run-of-the-mill appearance and the location of the Damascus Carlton: set slightly back off a busy main road, in a commercial/residential area some distance from the interesting parts of the city. Unless you like pounding city pavements ...
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