Syria Experience

  One Long Day In A Modern Oasis

Advantages: A Friendly and Very Interesting City
Disadvantages: None really!

Damascus (Al-Shâm, in Arabic) is not a city to spend a single day in, but due to "forces majeures", I had a choice between not going there at all or going for a day. So I went for a (marathon) day… This happened last October, while I was in Lebanon, a country which shares its entire north eastern border with Syria. The reason I decided not to stay for longer than a day was that I could not take my son with me. We were told that he would need a signed ...
...and jammed up routes of Damascus and Beirut.) and were lucky in that our driver decided not to wait for other passengers and departed there and then. We paid him $10 each for a single journey from Beirut to the centre of Damascus. A bus journey would cost half the price, but you can never tell at what exact time you will leave and how long it will take you to get there. The journey took us less than 2 hours and our driver stopped once in a bakery ...

Librelola 13.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Damascus (Syria)

Damascus: A Very Brief History!

Advantages: Long and very rich history...
Disadvantages: Not quite the Exact Category...

Having completed my review on Damascus (the link to which is: http://travel.ciao.co.uk/opinionview.php/OpinionId/5541181/ProduktId/90945) I have decided to post this part of it separately for a couple of reasons: Firstly, as it is extremely long, though I have tried to shrink a lot of information into very few pages. I know that many people are not particularly interested in reading at length about the history of a city or country, but I, for ...
...in particular is remarkable and that is the main reason for which I opted for posting this information, as opposed to omitting it altogether. The second reason is that its history is extremely complicated and quite confusing at times, hence needs to be read separately for easier digestion. I trust that those of you who enjoy finding out about the diversity of certain lands, might appreciate it. So here goes… ****************************************** ...

Librelola 13.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of General: Syria

Aleppo

Advantages: Beautiful and ancient city
Disadvantages: Not well advertised

Aleppo is the second largest city in Syria and is located in northern Syria about 30 miles south of Turkey, 60 miles to the east of the Mediterranean and 60 miles to the west of the Euphrates River. Aleppo is a very beautiful and ancient city with a history of more than 4000 years. You can't miss its tourist attractions if you visit Syria! You'll defiantly need to spend few days to see the main tourist sites in Aleppo. Hotels are available and cheap ...
...of the citadel. * Aleppo National Museum: contains plenty of artifacts and manuscripts describing the important role that Aleppo played over the history of the middle east over within the past 4 millenniums. There are items from the time of the different civilisations who controlled Aleppo and among these civilisations are the Amorite, Hittite, Egyptian, Mitannian, Assyrians, Achaemenian Persians, Seleucids, Hellenistic, Roman and the Arabs. * ...

engna 30.07.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Aleppo (Syria)

Dimashq...Damascus

Advantages: Fascinating old city with mosques, markets and monuments galore.
Disadvantages: Too hot in summer, miserable in winter, polluted and chaotic traffic

...do have a review entitled Damascus on epinions and dooyoo, but this review is totally new, written this evening in fact…just to avoid any confusion! Furthermore, I claim no responsibility for anyone who injures themself by falling asleep while ploughing through this rather long review ;@P) After a long flight and an almost complimentary tour of the city’s dark, dingy yet expensive hotels with my taxi driver, it was with a mixture of relief and exhaustion ...
...head. I’d arrived in Damascus to attend an Arabic language course as the second year of my degree. It had seemed exciting in the first year, thinking of the prospect of studying in a Middle Eastern country that few of my friends could pinpoint on a map. I’d delighted in all the “what do you want to go there for?” and “rather you than me” reactions. I would be an adventurer, a pioneer, heading off into the big unknown, first time abroad without family ...

kassalawi 08.12.2004 · Read full review
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Back to sources of civilizations

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(AP) - Police cars and armored vehicles flooded the al-Malaz neighborhood in the Saudi capital Sunday as security forces surrounded a house where suspected militants were believed to have taken refuge after a shootout with police. The massive operation was under way in the same district that was the focus of a huge security sweep against militants sought in the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., whose body has still not been found. ...
...neighborhood in the Saudi capital Sunday as security forces surrounded a house where suspected militants were believed to have taken refuge after a shootout with police. The massive operation was under way in the same district that was the focus of a huge security sweep against militants sought in the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., whose body has still not been found. ...

mathilda 02.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of General: Syria