Aleppo Citadel

Enjoying the nice view of the Syrian landscape, kilometers are passing. Slowly in the desert landscape changes into inhabited area. We are approaching Aleppo. When we entered the city, we saw immediately that this is not one of the countries where I would like to drive. The traffic is a complete mess. It reminded me to the traffic of Cairo. The …

Well, we're in luck! Syria (at least Aleppo) is technologically with the times! (The whole computer thing is relatively new here.) Even an English keyboard! Yahoo! We arrived at the bus depot in Antakya just before 9 am; Phyllis and Marty were already ...

... ; Continuing to hone my bargaining skills and found some beautiful Syrian silk screened scarfs this morning after our great tour of the Citadel.  Our guide was the best!  Ahmed Modalla, amoudallal@hotmail.com if you come to Aleppo.  Super ...

... is just going on as usual so it is quite fascinating to be here and see the mass of humanity inside the souqs. Then I find the citadel and it looks very impressive from the outside. Now to find my way back! Back through the souqs: check. Back through the ...

... , to revitalize the neighborhoods and preserve the cultural heritage. This work and effort was apparent almost everywhere, including at the citadel, in the heart of it all. One big change for me was that there were other foreign visitors in large ...

... or so in a succession of nice and smallish Turkish cities, Aleppo was just another big bustling city built around an ancient citadel and busy souq (bazaar). It's thought that the city has been inhabited for last 8000 years which makes it pretty old ...

... 't seem appropriate at the time - there was a bit of shrieking and wailing going on within. The Citadel is certainly the most visible of Aleppo's attractions, a massive and widely moated stone hill which would have been extremely difficult to ...

Hi Everyone, I'm in Syria now, in the north in a town called Aleppo. The border crossing from Turkey into Syria was crazy, like a scene out of a movie. The Syrian side was fine, the Turkish side was chaos. Cars and trucks were parked everywhere, and ...

... . Our first tour today, with a great guide (a real dapper gentleman) was of the 12th century Islamic Citadel where 3,000 people lived. Then we escaped from Aleppo's crazy traffic (it is a city of 4 million people) into the countryside near the ...

... , we arrived in Syria yesterday morning and luckily they have internet access here at our hostel in Syrias second city of Aleppo. We are only 45kms over the border into Syria from Turkey, but let us tell you its like a whole new world! (The keyboards in ...

... from certain angels, it looks as if it is still in use. I could not learn when exactly the monestary was converted into a citadel. My guess is that the Umayyads did it around 8th Century. Aleppo is a city of stone. Even the tall apartments and the ...