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Palmyra Slideshow
Palmyra
Travel Blogs from Palmyra, Syria
Manche Orte brauchen Zeit...
... schreiende Kinder mit 'Hello where are you from'. Ruinen wollten so nicht mit uns sprechen. Sollte das das magische Palmyra sein?? Aber erster Eindruck verblasste bald. Morgens sah Welt schon anders aus. Fast alleine durchstreiften wir Ruinen, ...
ZENOBIA QUEEN OF THE DESERT ...
We ended up 10 km from Iraqi Border, nice place! Slightly hostile. Now Palmyra 'the free city' a desert oasis , with roman inspired ruins. It was a Major point along the silk ...
All ruined out
... our good fortune that we weren’t headed in that particular direction! We first had lunch at a local restaurant (Traditional Palmyra Restaurant & Pancake House) which is listed in the lonely planet. Mick had the mensaf (a chicken and rice dish) ...
At a crossroads
... Tombs. Here, economical towers or underground hypogea, finally give a sense of the people, not the "bestriding colossi" of Palmyra. Whether tower* or tomb these are multi-level chambers stacked high with coffins slotted into narrow pigeonhole niches. Each ...
Land of Dates
... straight road but the way they drive over here the bus was the safest option. We were dropped off on the outskirts of modern Palmyra and immediately accosted by the local taxi drivers, we decided on one, another Mahmoud, (there are 99 names for Allah that ...
A bit touristy but we liked it
... ancient roman cities set in the snow at Baaalbek, in the lush green fields of Apamea, and now rising up out of the desert in Palmyra. The Roman cities we have visited are all very similar at first, but also differ in the stone they're built out of, ...
First Day in Palmyra
... which ended when two men came into the bus and pulled a woman out of it, we finally arrived about four hours later in Palmyra. We stayed at a lovely hotel next to Hotel Caracalla, which seemed to be closed. At afternoon, Michael (the other ...
Ramadan begins!
... enough. I decided being indoors with air-conditioning was a much better option. We took a public bus (large motor coach) to Palmyra. We arrived in the evening and immediately went up to the castle to watch the sunset over the mountains. It was quite ...
Palmyra : The desert is free
... its side. The driver obviously wants to get as much money as possible without even thinking of our safety. The journey to palmyra was about 3 hours long. Throughout the whole time there was hardly any ventilation but luckily it rained so it was ...
I should have gone there on a Russian motorcycle
Palmyra was really cool. Way out in the desert, so desolate after weathering the howling wind for millennia. But I wished I could have ridden out there on a Russian-made motorcycle, in my black leather bomber jacket and aviator sunglasses. That ...
Finally leaving Lebannon and visiting Palymara
... impressive. There is a castle on a hill which provides you with great views of the surrounding desert. I was really quite impressed with Palmyra there was hardly any tourists around and it was kind of weird just having an old city right in the middle of ...
Palmyra Part 2
... sound. The door was around 2 feet thick and weighed a couple tons). Last night we were planning on visiting some more of the Palmyra ruins in the dark because they are all lit up in the night but we had to wait until tonight because of an unexpected ...
Caravan City
... full there is a lot of changing of seats to accommodate this rule. Tadmur is a small town based around the famous ruins of Palmyra. I was told that watching the sunset from Ma'an Castle was lovely but the afternoon that I arrived was really hazy and ...
Palmyra
... through the Walls and in to the site! It sits on the site itself with a nice terrace looking out across the breadth of the ruins. Palmyra is huge. Dwarfs anywhere else we've seen. Only Ankor Wat and the Temple of the Sun in Mexico are on the same scale. ...
Winner - loudest and longest call to prayer
So I was slightly mistaken when I said we were going to see Roman stuff in Palmyra. While the city was started by the Romans, it grew up quickly as a city in its own right, being an important stopping point on the Silk Road. Apparently a queen ...
Palmyra
From Aleppo we headed down to Palmyra. I was wanting to go, but didn't think we would have enough time on this trip, but we met a couple in Aleppo who had just come up from there and said it was easy enough. On the way down we had to go via Homs to change ...
The ruins
The ruins of Palmyra are absolutely amazing, brilliantly preserved and you get a total and absolute feeling of what they must have been like 2000 years ago.I walked around for several hours and was absolutely inspired. Went to the Internet cafe and met 3 ...
Day 5 - Valley of the Tombs
... great importance they clearly attached to honoring the dead. The oddly forlorn tower tombs found here are no match for the ruins of Palmyra itself, but their settingg has an eerily unreal atmosphere (all the more so at twilight, or on a moonlit night). As ...
The stars are amazing
... life in the Greek merchant navy. Headed to Hama famous for wooden water wheels, amazing place and brilliant to see, headed out to Palmyra, run out of water and slept in the desert. Its amazing how wonderful the stars are when there is no light pollution ...
More Palmyra
... four, and then a table for 6 and then finally I was able to sit down to eat. It is a shame that we are leaving Palmyra tomorrow cos I really like this town. Oh well, we arrive in Damascus and Bish ensures us that Damascus is the best since that is ...
On to Palmyra
... by mozzies and woke up this morning with a new collection of bites. Today has been another driving day. Arrived here in Palmyra late afternoon. We'll get tomorrow morning to explore the ruins. We're camping in the grounds of the Hotel Zenobia which ...
Day 5 - Our Journey is close to Ending
... , it felt kind of surreal that this trip was ending and it felt that we were only getting to see a few of the many sites Syria has to offer. I could easily spend a few months even a year here and probably still not get to see the full historic nature ...
French and Qataris at Palmyra
... "ride attendant" refilled the seemingly new large water bottle with water from a jerry can. Watching the sunset at the ruins at Palmyra there wasn't a soul around until a group of French tourists approach the top of the temple near where I was sitting... ...
Day 4 - The Long Silk Route to Palmyra
... (25C upwards), and yet within the deserted sands and landscape there was a cooling breeze which made it a little less hostile (although Palmyra is not hostile). We began our tour in the temples and ruins by arriving on Camels with the locals, you almost ...
Palmyra, oude stad van koningin Zenobia
... nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Palmyra of Tadmur, bijgenaamd Stad van Duizend Zuilen, is de meest bezochte archeologische locatie in Syri''. Palmyra was een oase op de zijderoute en werd steenrijk doordat de inwoners reizende handelaren bescherming boden tegen ...