Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelCairo Hotel Hamah
It rained in Hama
27 Oct
When I checked out of Al Gawaher at 8am, apparently the hotel didnt accept any credit card. And also when I gave them 2 1000 SYP notes for the 1500 bill they say they did not have any change! So I had to give them all of my loose change which coincidentally added up to 500. My next worry then was the fare for the taxi that I was going …
Desert ruins of Palmyra, norias of Hama, & castles
Diary 7 Palmyra, Hama and Crusader castles
Friday 14th May 2010 Damascus – Palmyra (Tadmor to the locals)
We're taking the bus for the three-hour trip to Palmyra (current population 50,000), which is out in the desert. From early times it was a staging post for caravans travelling between the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and …
A true Syrian experience!
Our last day in Aleppo was a true Syrian experience. We spent the last couple of hours drinking tea with a local shop keeper who spoke no English, before going down to the souq's were the previous day we had arranged to meet a tailor to enjoy some more chi and coffee. In the end both Dino and the tailor enjoyed it when Shona was forced unhappily …
Fairy Chimneys and Dead Cities
It is with a trembling, but recovering, hand that I put pen to paper this week. We are in Syria now. So my Turkish tea addiction is a thing of the past - relegated to a mere memory (like scraping our car windows after the first good frost on a cold Canadian autumn morning...). When we last blogged Kevin was in such a hurry to catch the tea guy at …
Waterwheels and vintage cars
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 here. I have never felt so totally welcome in a country as I have this last week here. Nor have I …


