Apamea (Afamia) Hamah

After parting with my crew in Aleppo I made my way to Hamah, Syria, on the banks of the Orantes. The city is famous for its ancient water wheels, which remarkably date back to 1100BC and provided water for irrigation. It is also known for a horrible ...

... street lined with columns, which have been re-erected by archeologists. They had fallen due to earthquakes and abandonment.  Apamea was home to Neo-Platonism and many of the heretics who left Antioch after the Council of Chalcedon.  It also ...

... to this blog.   The next day I checked out of my roof spot and left my bag at reception. Today's itinerary: Hama to Apamea, look around at the big massive well old columns/ promenade, back to Hama to pick up my bag, then to Homs to stay on the ...

... we are going. Strolling through the villages, offers of tea are frequent, as are cries of 'welcome to Syria' and 'hello'. The first day we attempted to visit Apamea we never made it to the site, after three 17 year old Syrian girls on the bus ...

... in Hama we thought it best to actually utilize our time for a change,  we arranged a day trip to the dead cities and Apamea. After a quick breakfast of juice we headed off to see some more ruins. Our first stop was Apamea, founded early in the 3rd ...

Took a day trip out to Apamea, another set of ruins... was not too exciting, but the surrounding countryside was magnificent. It's up high on a hill so I could look down upon bright, green, grassy fields below for kilometers. Got rained on, then hailed ...

... les creuades que es mante en un estat de conservacio mes que acceptable), la ciutadell de Mysiaf, les runes romanes d'Apamea i les ciutats mortes d'Al-Bara i Serjilla (d'epoca bizantina). He descobert noves possibilitats de la meva camera (finalment ...

... elephants (courtesy of Hannibal) and 30,000 mares with 300 stallions made their home here.  That's a whole lot of stable cleaning. Apamea Teashop is also the home of one of the coolest cars in Syria, an old 1950s Pontiac.  Capitols from the ...

... - it poured with rain most of the day and as we crossed the mountains it snowed. As with everywhere in this region, Apamea has been occupied by everyone. Established by a Seleucid and famous for its horse breeding and war elephants, it was over ...

... a real crusader castle. The remains are extensive and strong and it's easy to see why it continues to stand to this day. Apamea is small in comparison to Palmyra but I think it is more lovely and atmospheric. The setting ...