Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelDar Halabia Hotel Aleppo
I made it! In Syria with my luggage.
After planning, praying, and fretting I am finally in the Middle-East. I arrived very early (4am) into Aleppo, Syria from London. It was in doubt whether I would arrive with my luggage. After the tube brokedown I had to snag a cab. The cabbie took me to the wrong terminal and the one I had to get to was a shuttle away. I barely got checked in on …
Aleppo
(Jim)
Along with Damascus and Byblos, Aleppo is another place that stakes a claim to the title of the world's oldest continually inhabited city. We'd read in the Lonely Planet that in Aleppo the history feels a lot more immediate than in the other two though, so we were looking forward to seeing how it stacked up against Damascus, a city …
My birthday
My birthday begins with looking around for breakfast, which is not easy in Aleppo. Then I move to the new hotel, Hotel Dar Halabia. Then I take a taxi to the airport to catch my two friends Michael and Marko from the airport to the hotel. In the evening we go out for dinner at a very beautiful restaurant in the Djudaide quarter (where the christians live) and celebrate my birthday.
Second day in Aleppo
Today, Friday, is muslim Sunday. So the whole Bazar or Suq how it's called here, is empty.
We visit the Citadell which is impressive, and walk around in the city for the rest of the day.
Syria lightning visit
We made our way from Cappadocia Turkey down to Adana (not a good place to get accomodation) arriving at around 10:00pm. The next day we travelled towards the border with Syria. Our goal was to get to Aleppo in Syria before nighfall. Our remaining travel in Turkey was great but when we got to Antayka ( the bordering town with Syria) things got …


