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double room with extra bed

Carlton Hotel Damascus

17th Nissan Street, Mezze, PO Box 35005/35006 Damascus, Syria

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Surviving Syria

A travel blog entry by waynedale

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... and that's all it took.

The drive through Syria towards the city of Aleppo was brief and I was relieved to finally arrive. It was quite possibly the most daunting border crossing I've been through and although it took a while to find the hotel, once we found it, I paid the driver his fee and I was very pleased to discover that he hadn't inflated the price. It stood at $65 as previously arranged and OK, I might have lost an extra $5 as a tip that had nothing to do ...

Omzwervingen in de 'oude stad'

A travel blog entry by hilde

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... the body of St. John the Baptist. The Mausoleum where Saladin was buried is located in the gardens just outside the mosque.

Khan As'ad Pasha is the largest khan in the Old City of Damascus. The building follows a typical Ottoman khan layout with two floors giving onto a central courtyard. Khan As'ad Pasha is entered from Suq al-Buzuriyyah, through a monumental gateway decorated with stone carvings and roofed by a muqarnas semi-dome.
The entrance leads to a ...

The North!

A travel blog entry by kduntley

Ok, I know this says I'm in Syria, but actually we're currently staying in the Golan Heights which is another Israeli occupied territory that was conquered after the 1967 Six Day War. We just got here this evening so I don't really know what it's all about yet, but what I DO know is that there is SNOW ON THE GROUND!!!!! Wow. I was NOT expecting this. SNOW?! Let's flashback to almost ...

Eid in Damascus

A travel blog entry by jonbart

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As I walked through a cemetery trying to disguise myself as a local, I was asked by a probably-half-blind old man to help him pour water in one of the flower pots at a grave he had come to visit... down another perfectly paved street with cars parked on both sides, I walked by what could only be described as a temporary wooden sheep ...

Welcome to Damascus

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

... departure, so I wasn't able to make advanced arrangement for accommodation in Damascus. That's my excuse anyways. Thankfully I shared my taxi from Amman with an English speaking Syrian couple who were kind enough to allow me to tag along with them. When the cab dropped us off in front of their hotel I knew right away that it was out of my price range. I didn't even feel clean enough to hang out in the lobby. The hotel staff addressing me as "sir" made ...

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