Country Info
- Damascus
- Capital
- Syrian Pound (SYP)
- Currency
- 16,728,808
- Population
- SY
- Country Code
Syria Slideshow
Top Hotels in Syria
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Sheraton Damascus Hotel And Towers
64 reviews -
Meridien (Deluxe) Damascus
33 reviews -
Sheraton Aleppo Hotel & Towers
58 reviews
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Cham Palace Damascus
63 reviews
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Le Meridien Lattakia
28 reviews -
Apamee Cham Palace Hamah
20 reviews -
Ebla Cham Palace Damascus
30 reviews
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Furat Cham Palace Deir Ezzor
10 reviews
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The Palmyra
15 reviews
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Rotana Suites Damascus
26 reviews -
Four Seasons (Deluxe) Damascus
107 reviews
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Safir Al Sayedah Zeinab Hotel Damascus
12 reviews
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Sheraton Maaret Sednaya Hotel Damascus
18 reviews
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Semiramis Damascus
31 reviews
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Safir Homs
19 reviews
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Badia Cham Deir Ezzor
5 reviews
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Carlton Damascus
52 reviews
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Safita Cham Palace
8 reviews
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Cote D'Azur De Cham Lattakia
27 reviews
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Regency Park Damascus
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Royal (Suites) Damascus
8 reviews
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Dedeman Palmyra
43 reviews
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Coral Julia Dumna Aleppo
31 reviews
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Zenobia Cham Palace Hotel Palmyra
82 reviews
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Dar Al-Yasmine Damascus
46 reviews
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Villa Palmyra
24 reviews
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Al Jalaa Damascus
5 reviews
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Palm Village Damascus
2 reviews
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Orient Palace Hotel Damascus
23 reviews
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Shahba El Sham Aleppo
1 review
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Noria Hotel Hamah
35 reviews
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Al Majed Hotel Damascus
42 reviews
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Hotel Al Diwan Damascus
4 reviews
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Bait Rumman Hotel Damascus
110 reviews
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Antique Khan Hotel Damascus
29 reviews
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Al-Wadi Hotel Homs
21 reviews
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Sands Palmyra
9 reviews
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Al Patra Damascus
8 reviews
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Hotel Sultan Damascus
27 reviews
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Shahbandar Palace Damascus
24 reviews
Syria
Travel Blogs from Syria
Crusader Castles
This is a top pick! ... day it is and it usually doesn't matter! From Hama, we travelled south and west to Crac des Chevalier, one of Syria's premier sights. Our guidebook describes Crac as "the epitome of the dream castle or childhood fantasies" (a quote from Paul ...
Date pancakes vs. bananas
This is a top pick! When we left Crac des Chevaliers it dawned on me that the 3 day Syrian holiday was over. This is very good news for two reasons: A) More shops and eateries will be open. 2) No more little bastard pikey kids running around shooting everyone in sight ...
Squat toilets in a ghost town
This is a top pick! ... , Asia, Africa. Syria got me! Lots of other people had bad stomachs too. This is supposedly quite normal for people coming into Syria from Turkey. We continued on to our destination for the night: Hama. A few more stops along the way for people to run off ...
Unsuccessfully sneaking into a mosque
This is a top pick! ... sectors, but as we approach the city centre it clears up nicely and the cleanliness is a nice change from other parts of Syria. There are hills surrounding the city, but they are slowly being overtaken by the grey box shapes of houses. The concrete seems ...
Desert Oasis
This is a top pick! ... 't help that Western movies and the media portray Western women in the way they do. We've certainly noticed the litter in Syria. Several times Martin has caught people laughing at him when he's been very careful about putting cigarette or a piece of ...
Syria - Into the 'Axis of Evil'!
This is a top pick! ... welcome. The customs agents even offered us tea and cigarettes (despite the big 'no smoking' sign in the lobby). Syria's location between Israel/Palestine and Iraq hasn't made Syria a popular tourist destination, which became apparent to us quite ...
Another Day, A Different Country
This is a top pick! ... it's supposed to work. We have heard of some people having difficulty (like New Zealanders who don't have a consulate in Syria). The bus driver collected everyone's passports for customs on both sides of the border and ensured they were processed. Mohsen ...
Idols and Ruins in the Syrian Desert
This is a top pick! Leaving the Fertile Crescent town of Hama, with its norias and entering into the heart of Syria's limestone desert, I looked out the bus window as the ruins of Palmyra and its oasis appeared, with the Baal Temple as its centerpiece. Palmyra was thriving ...
Defenders of The Faith
This is a top pick! ... main gripes people here have with America is that it supports Israel. Likewise one of the main gripes America has with Syria is that it supports Hezbollah, with posters of Assad next to Nasrallah everywhere. Over dinner, I talked with the ...
The Welcoming Monastery
This is a top pick! Perched high in a canyon in the Syrian desert is a Syriac monastery that opens its doors to all and encourages dialogue between faiths. I climbed several hundred steps past olive trees and shrublands on steep rocky slopes. At the top, I met ...
Difficult to see though the haze...
This is a top pick! ... ; Did manage to get the great deal on the scarfs I mentioned above though! Took a few days to warm up to Syria mostly because I wasn't feeling well in Damascus. We stayed in a grotto like hotel. The rooms were mostly underground ...
Successfully crossing into Syria
This is a top pick! ... sofas and it is wonderful. I decide to get some strawberry shisha and it is also delicious and pleasant. I definitely like life here in Syria. After dinner we find our way back to one of Rani's hangouts. It is another rooftop, but this one has a view ...
Layer Cake of Civilization
This is a top pick! Damascus is a layer cake of history, with thousands of years of iceing. Of course, in most places, only the top layer is visible, the others buried or destroyed over time. But even the top layer in Damascus is old, with mosques dating to the ...
The long road to Damascus
This is a top pick! ... east, forging the new world. The dots somehow begin to join up. Modern Western nations issue government warnings against visiting Syria. There is a peculiar vacuum in the incredible hub-hub of thousands of feet on ancient, smoothed granite walkways, lanes ...
The Oldest City in the World
This is a top pick! ... run off with their carts to another location. I think it was mostly a big game. Damascus (population 6 million), the capital of Syria, is purportedly the oldest continually inhabited city in the world, dating back to 5,000 BC. Much of what there is ...
Doin' the Pigeon in Syria
This is a top pick! ... cooing of pigeons marks the start of a new day. Keeping pigeons is not for everyone, but it is popular in the rooftops of Syria, something they share with Bert of Bert & Ernie Fame, Sesame Street Style. Like Ray Charles shook his tail feather and did ...
The Islamic Capital Of Culture..
This is a top pick! ... in hand we made our way to the border crossing by way of an eastern Turkey minibus and simply walked across the border into Syria. After about a week of hearing, 'hello donkey, money money' it was nice to hear all the Syrian border officials saying, ...
Palmyran Pimps..
This is a top pick! ... interests. Since then a steady flow of travellers have made the trek out into the desert from Aleppo and other parts of Syria. Palmyra's greatest days were when Zenobia started ruling Palmyra on behalf of her son Vaballath. Zenobia with the help of her ...
Palmyra - decidedly surpassable
This is a top pick! ... for us to stay longer. Our next destination is Hama, the best town to stop in when you want to see Syria's other prime attraction, the great Crusader-era castle Crac des Chevaliers. The young Italian guy who we met yesterday joins ...
Enough of The wake up Calls!!!
This is a top pick! ... Sea... there is just so much we've been doing to write about each individual thing will take forever. So... now we are in Syria, and what a place. They say the Syrian people are some of the friendliest in the world - and they definitely live up to ...
I 'Krak' Myself Up Again..
This is a top pick! From Hama to Krak and back. Hello from arguably the second most important site in Syria and the best preserved castle in the world. TE Lawrence simply called it, 'the finest castle in the world'. In our eyes he obviously hadn't laid eyes on Ishak Pasa ...
To Irbid?
This is a top pick! When the day began, if someone told me that it would end in Irbid, Jordon, I would have first asked them where Irbid was, then next asked why someone would go there, then wonder how it would all happen. The bus from Damascus stopped at the Roman city ...
Damascus: end of the road
This is a top pick! Azem's distinctive styling is evident on both the external and internal features of the various builings. The multi-coloured and highly detailed brickwork (ablaq) is particularly distinctive, replicated in buildings across the city and very complimentary ...
The world's oldest city
This is a top pick! ... We switch back into the Syrian car and continue on to Damascus. In terms of wealth, friendliness, infrastructure and organisation, Syria seems at first look to be somewhere between Egypt and Jordan. The cars are Skodas and Peugots instead of ...
Crossing Syria
This is a top pick! After days of anxiety about whether or not I would be able to get my Syrian visa at the border from Jordan, having heard endless contradictory reports about the possibility of doing so, it ended up being a breeze. A brief exchange in my pidgin Arabic, ...
Ghosts in the desert
This is a top pick! ... days, the desert-clad ruins of the 2nd-century AD city are some of the most evocative in the Mediterranean, and one of Syria's greatest attractions. After feeling underwhelmed by the ruins of Jerash in Jordan, I was champing at the bit to see Palmyra, ...
Waterwheels and vintage cars
This is a top pick! God, this is a fantastic country! Syria is, I think, probably the standout highlight of my trip so far, and one of the best countries I have ever travelled. The ceaseless and all-encompassing friendliness of the Syrians is reason enough alone to come ...
The road to Damascus
This is a top pick! ... that a while ago (probably ol' Lawrence again) and I'm happy to follow in their footsteps in 2006. Because Damascus and Syria in general is turning into one pleasant and interesting surprise as I wend my way northwards. Hopefully it continues this ...