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Cham Palace Damascus

Maysaloun St., P.O. Box 7570 Damascus, Syria

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Surviving Syria

A travel blog entry by waynedale

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... The hotel in Aleppo was a palace.

Aleppo is an ancient city with a walled citadel on a hill which is absolutely spectacular and full of young couples probably getting away from the conservatism down below. You could spend a whole day up here and it's well worth coming to Aleppo just to see it. I was on a mission to buy socks. I was fast running out of underwear and I needed a laundry somewhere, otherwise I needed more underwear. I walked through the souks of Aleppo ...

Omzwervingen in de 'oude stad'

A travel blog entry by hilde

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... with old shops on the ground floor. The space of the central courtyard is divided into nine equal square modules, where each module is covered with a dome. The second floor, accessible by a staircase located to the right of the main entrance, was used mainly for lodging and has eighty rooms arranged along a gallery facing the courtyard.
An octagonal marble fountain occupies the center of the courtyard below the central dome.

Azem Palace: was originally built ...

Lost in Translation

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

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Shu amelet mbareh? (what did you do yesterday?) My tutor asks me at the beginning of another language class. I pause for a moment to recall the comings and goings of yet another somewhat uneventful day. I begin to answer but she cut me off, her voice dropping a little "If you tell me one more time that you walked around the old city and ate a shawerma, I'll kill you."
"Do you want me to lie then?"

My laziest month of travel is all to ...

Eid in Damascus

A travel blog entry by jonbart

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... a few dozen sheep with dirt placed on the ground beneath them... probably only a temporary Eid fixture. Because of Eid there were pilgrims from Iran and Bangladesh all around... the Iranians were so numerous that there were entire parts of the bazaar where the shopkeepers negotiated in Farsi quoting prices in Iranian currency... and ...

Welcome to Damascus

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

... uncomfortable. For my personal amusement I asked how much a room was. Twenty five bucks a night! I scoffed as I handed the cashier a couple crumpled notes, and allowed the bell-boy to carry my dirty back-pack to my room.

After checking in I joined the couple, Margo and Zuzu, for lunch. Being that it was already 3:00 and I hadn't eaten since breakfast, I was starving. They had a great restaurant in mind, so I was happy to be allowed to ...

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