Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelGhazal Hotel Damascus
Welcome to Damascus
With a small degree of reluctance I mustered up the energy to move on from Amman. I was starting to get comfortable there, and would have been happy to hang out for a few more days. I shouldered my pack and promised myself that I would spend some time on the way back through. I caught a cab from in front of my hostel and asked the driver how …
Second Day in Damaskus
After Marko leaves us, Michael and I split up and each one spend a day on his own. I walked for a few hours more or less without a plan through Damaskus, looking for a Cafe with free wireless. I made some photos.
In the afternoon Michael and I went to a restaurant near the Hotel. I can't see or eat meat anymore. Meat, meat, meat.
All roads lead to Damascus (or so they say)
We survived our second Iran Air flight - from Tehran to Dubai. In fact, apart from the age of the planes, the flights were actually okay. We've both certainly flown with worse airlines. And the landings were very smooth - I guess you have to have good pilots when you have planes that old...
We arrived in Damascus, Syria and cleared …
Damascene Days
Damascus does not quite have the immediate pull of Aleppo - the sense that you are inhabiting the essence of the Middle East - but the city does have a certain something. The highlight of any city to this city must be to go enter the Great Mosque, the light at the end of the souq's tunnel. On the Damascus souq briefly, it is much larger in size and …
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