Aleppo Museum

Sharia al-Maari, new town, next to public park Aleppo , Syria - Phone: 221 24 00

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    Doin' the Pigeon in Syria

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    ... , souks being the markets and khans being the caravanserai-cum-warehouses in the back alleys. In the end, I visited the Aleppo National Museum, to get a better picture of the historic sights that lay ahead. Doin' the (coo, coo) pigeon Doin' the ...

  • 2

    Aleppo Cont'd

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    ... of the Sheraton Hotel, and they have not included many of the side streets. There is a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Aleppo! Saw a poster... I don't believe that the citadels of Anatolia can compare with the Citadel of Aleppo. The ones in Istanbul and ...

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    HOOKAS HANGINGS and a "52PONTIAC

    ... in Syria! We spent a few days doing all the tourist things; visiting the citadell,a fort,the mosque a museum and the famous souks. Souks are shopping areas and Aleppo has twelve km. of these covered shopping places. West Ed mall eat your heart out! It is ...

  • 4

    Hama to Hallep

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    ... a newly married Italian couple and a Brit who was killing time before his flight home, we visited Apamea, the dead cities, and a mosaic museum. It was a pleasant day, Apamea was nice, (more ruins) similar to Palmyra, but in my opinion, not quite so ...

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    Oldest Citadel

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    ... , so there was a certain amount of anxiety as we set off with a German map. First stop was the much advertised Aleppo Museum (as Iraq is not particularly assessable anymore, it is a good spot for Syrian antiquities), where we saw exhibitions on Syrian ...

  • 6

    Aleppo

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    November 17, 2007 Aleppo, Syria The Syrian National Archeological Museum is near our hotel. It was being remolded while we were there so it was dusty and a few of the exhibits were missing, but it was worth the 100 SP we had to pay to get in. Aleppo ...

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    Aleppo - still more souks, fortresses, and ruins

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    ... nbsp;                        Aleppo (Syria) Out to the Hama bus station for the 11.45am Kadmous bus for the 2 and a half hour trip to ...

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    The Cheapest Place on Earth

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    ... , there are not a lot of ATMs. In Turkey, there is an ATM booth, just bigger than a phone booth, at virtually every corner. In Aleppo, I had seen a grand total of none. The fellow at my hotel told me there was one a number of blocks distant. When I got ...

  • 9

    Goodbye Turkey, Hello Syria

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    ... ; Syria, here we come! Our tour guide seemed a bit dodgy at first, but quickly  gave us heaps of info on Syria and Aleppo, the city where we were going first.  We've also noticed that everyone in Syria gives you handfuls of candy the first ...

  • 10

    Aleppo

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    ... of its existance. The guide and the people I have came across so far say great things about it, so I decide to go straight to Aleppo (Syria) from Aqaba (Jordan). I take the first bus at 6AM and it is not until 1AM from the following day that I don't get ...