Carlton Green Hill Damascus

Jedaidet Al-Wadi Damascus, Syria

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(4) The Mountains and The Valley

A travel blog entry by oudmayer

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... goes – apartment buildings all the way up the mountain slopes -, Bekaa is different, much less populated, more humble. The valley itself is broad and flat, seemingly everything can grow here, and does. The grapes for the local wines are most obvious, but there are also all sorts of fruit trees, vegetables, and huge potatoes. When the French created Lebanon – when they split it off from Syria -, they may have wanted to protect ...

Surviving Syria

A travel blog entry by waynedale

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... and sending the money home, so I'm not sure if their reciprocal visa arrangement was thought out properly. Now back to the other counter. The driver was getting a bit restless although I don't know why. We'd only been waiting ten minutes and I'd read that it can sometimes take hours for a visa to be issued at the border. He went back to the office to talk to his mate. Within minutes he came back to me and said, "we're through". Apparently he paid the official a tip of ...

Omzwervingen in de 'oude stad'

A travel blog entry by hilde

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... br> Damascus museum, souk Al-Hamidieh and several other souks, palaces, Khans, and old schools and Bimarestans are additional attraction in the old city. Khan Assad Pasha was built in 1752 under the patronage of governor Assad Pasha al-Azm.

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest
mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam. A shrine in the mosque is said ...

Roman Temples in a Snowstorm

A travel blog entry by alexjasonworld

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We arrived in Baalbek on Tuesday (now thursday), planning to stay for 1 night to see the roman ruins, well it's now Thursday and we’re still here. Tuesday afternoon was miserable and wet so we spent the afternoon splashing our way around town trying not to step in the deepest of puddles going from shwarma shop to baklava shop before retiring to our chilly room for a movie under the covers. Wednesday morning was even worse, still cold, still ...

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