Hamah Museum

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 ...

... firsthand.  After standing around looking bewildered, we were escorted by two older ladies on the street to the Aleppo National Museum (a landmark we used to help us figure out exactly where in the world Mario Andretti had dropped us off - there ...

... it wouldn't be anywhere near as easy for a brit to get the Iranian visa… First stop on the tour was the Mosaic museum in an old khan. The mosaics were all found in or around the dead cities and very impressive, colourful and lots of explanation as ...

... Byzantine water wheels, which are really big and random. It is about an hour away from Krak des Chevaliers. It has a nice museum and a small Ottoman palace as well. Nighting here, we can easily daytrip to Krak, and the next day (connecting in Homs) ...

Staying cheap hotel,  I decided to take time to restore my strength. So prolonged my stay at the hotel for one nigth. During day I visited a very good museum syrian history and the water weels, which transported via aquaducts water to the fields. ...

... built by Seleucus I, one of Alexander the Great's generals, and named after his wife. We made a brief look in at the museum and being the only visitors were shown round by the guard. With his extremely limited English he took us around pointing at the ...

... Paul from Edinburgh and Ernst from Holland and our vehicle was this vintage 1970 Mercedes. Our first destination was the Apamea museum. On the way there it started raining very heavily and some parts of the roads were flooded. It was strange ...