Palmyra, Syria Travel Blogs

Idols and Ruins in the Syrian Desert
Mar 9, 2008 (24 photos)

... , shopkeepers sold their wares.  A nearby agora was full of traders and tax collectors from the adjacent tariff court, building Palmyra's wealth.  The floors were covered in fine mosaics of Mediterranean patterns and gods: Dionysus, Athena, Zeus, Solomon's ...

Desert Oasis
Nov 10, 2005 (15 photos)

And so we were off to see Palmyra or Tadmor, as the locals call it, Syria's greatest attraction. Palmyra is an ancient city that was built on an oasis in the middle of nowhere and has long since been reclaimed by the desert. A town has grown up around the ...

Palmyra - decidedly surpassable
Jul 23, 2007 (7 photos)

Two nights in Damascus is plenty and early on Monday morning we take the bus out to Palmyra.  This is supposedly the place to see in Syria, if the guidebooks are to be believed.  The Lonely Planet raves about its "unsurpassable magnificence" and ...

Palmyran Pimps..
Aug 30, 2006 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Ghosts in the desert
Apr 29, 2006 (13 photos)

... sky. I got all that, and more. As I lugged my sheesha-encumbered pack through the door of the Bel Shaamin Guesthouse in Palmyra Town, I was surprised, very pleasantly so, to be greeted with a "Oh! Hello, Connor!" Who should be sitting in the lounge, ...

Ebla & Hama - 2 Whistle Stops on way to Palmyra
Nov 14, 2008 (4 photos)

... great significance as the artefacts and parts of buildings found date back to 2,000BC! There is not yet much excavated and Syria has a big job ahead of them. There was a busload of school chldren from Aleppo on excursion there and they practiced there ...

Palmyra
Aug 30, 2005 (12 photos)

... a shithole! So, we took the easy way out, a taxi driver approached us and offered a fare, its a 2 hour drive to Palmyra, he eventually came down a little in price, and given the circumstances we jumped in the taxi. We drove through the city and out ...

Palmyra: Roman ruins in the desert
Mar 25, 2006 (34 photos)

Situated on an eastern arterial road about 130km from Homs is the ancient Greco-Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's premier tourist attraction and one of the world's best preserved ruin sites. Initially a caravan town for 1,000 years until around the birth ...

The Palms and Peace of Palmyra
Nov 15, 2008 (10 photos)

... the children and they called out greetings and ran along with us. Unlike most of the places we had visited in Syria so far the town of Palmyra is quite small which made a pleasant change. Palmyra is a huge Oasis in the desert. Palm trees and greenery ...

Palmyra crap
Apr 11, 1998

... in the morning, saying goodbye to another city. We headed north as we were going to see another ancient Roman ruin. Palmyra. These ruins were excavated around 1935 according to our guide and both French and German archaeologists worked on this, side by ...

Palmyra, Land of Heat
Sep 10, 2006 (6 photos)

In the middle of the Syria desert sits the ruined city of Palmyra. While the modern town of Palmyra is underwhelming, a walk through the columns of the old city is fascinating. Check out my little movie for an impromptu history lesson. I'm bored of ...

Palmyra
Nov 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... However, it is in a perfect high spot to watch the sunset. How beautifully the setting sun lights the ruins... I looked down on Palmyra and realized how small it was. Later, my driver Mohammad told me that the population was about 100,000. Most probably, ...

A day in the life of grinspinner well folks ...
May 14, 2001 (2 photos)

... go figure!), so no sugar is needed. We say our goodbyes then head off for Palmyra. Known to the locals as Tadmor, Palmyra is Syria's prime tourist attraction and one of the world's great historic sites. The oasis is in the middle of nowhere, 150km from ...

Palmyra, The Bride of the Desert
Oct 15, 2007 (75 photos)

... two days to see everything and this is what we did. I will start by giving a brief history lesson. Palmyra is located in the centre of Syria and is Syria's most famous tourist attraction. It is an oasis and was centrally located for trade between ...

Palmyra
Apr 14, 2009 (45 photos)

Palmyra - 2nd c. Roman ruins in the middle of the desert and lots of Bedouins . . .

Crac addict
Dec 30, 2007

... dreary-looking as all the accounts say it is. Because I got a late start thanks to my errands in Damascus (there are 22 ATMs in Syria that I can use, and the first one I went to was out of service), I wound up hitting Homs a little later than I wanted. To ...

The cold desert
Jan 12, 2009 (2 photos)

... blocking any view on the castle. We then went back the way we came, and rapidly covered the 200 kilometres to Palmyra. The weather oscillated between drizzly and some clear spots in the sky. Fabulous rainbow over the desert. Snowdrifts high up, that ...

In the Syrian Desert
Jul 16, 2008 (53 photos)

We have now reached Palmyra, I know that I have heard of it in classical literature, but I can't remeber excatly where. We left Hama this morning and arrived here around 2pm. We havn't done anything this afternoon as it is way too hot to do anything, it's ...

Palmyra in the rain
Oct 29, 2008

Palmyre possede une histoire antique particulierement interessante, assez pour que je m'en aille en conter le gros. Idealement situee entre la Mesopotamie et les cotes mediterraneennes, elle s'est enrichie entre le IIe siecle avant notre ere et le II ...

Syrian Hospitality
Jul 28, 2006 (4 photos)

... down the numberplates of our minibuses. As he turned up at the bus station to see us leave Deir es-Zur and the east of Syria, we insisted on a photo of us posing with him (looking a little disgruntled). A memento of our run-in with the Syrian (not so) ...

The Ancient City of Palmyra
Jul 17, 2008 (33 photos)

... but maybe that's because we had a guide here, while we were left to wander on our on at Ephesos. It was pretty hot walking around Palmyra, so in the afternoon Aldo from Peru and I to a pool to cool down a bit, this resultet in the both of us smelling like ...

Oh sweet Palmyra, the desert, ruins and beddouins
Dec 10, 2008 (22 photos)

... were prepared the next night though, with extra blankets and the heater turned on an hour or so before bed!!   The ruins at Palmyra were just spectacular. In AD 217 Rome took control of it, but prior to that it had been under the Greeks and before ...

Palmyra
Nov 4, 2006

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Too Conservative for Lyrics
Mar 28, 2008

... more I understand that life is so fragile and that my spirit of invincibility I had ın my 20s was slowly disappearing.    Palmyra was an ıncredıble place.  It was at ıts heıght ın the fırst two centurıes AD as part of the Greek and Roman Empıres ...

The Desert City
May 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... quite boring, just the odd irrigated olive plantation to bring a touch of dusty greyish green to the otherwise dusty landscape. Palmyra town itself is an oasis in the desert landscape with date and olive plantations surrounding it. The ruins of the ...

Hama Time
Oct 14, 2009 (7 photos)

... 't mind telling you there was almost a riot, but I just about managed to control her. A bus trip through the desert to Palmyra followed. This time a 2nd century trading town - wow - what an amazing site (Steve's growing to love them!) although we did ...

The ruins at Palmyra
Apr 26, 2007 (21 photos)

Jeannie here.  The oasis at Palmyra has attracted weary travelers for centuries.  The ruins of the Roman town and, later, Zenobia's brief kingdom, are extraordinary.  We heartily enjoyed walking down the roman road and visiting the temple ...

Tours to Syria,Jordan & Lebanon
Jul 14, 2009 (8 photos)

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Palmyra to Damascus
May 10, 2009 (65 photos)

... the invading Romans and then advanced on  Egypt and Palestine.  The final straw came when Zenobia declared Palmyra's independence from Rome and started minting her own coins at Alexandria - the cheek of the woman! The might of the Roman ...

Syria, and our 4 month anniversary!!
Oct 16, 2009 (15 photos)

... 't used it yet. many of the women are in the full black covering thing. it's pretty different. currently we are in Palmyra visiting some ruins.  we are going to see some camel races tomorrow at this camel festival thing and then tomorrow night we will ...