Odeinat Hotel Palmyra

Palmyra, Syria

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Sunset over Ruins

A travel blog entry by lisaandluke

... evening, we ventured out to the ruins where the sun was starting to set behind the dunes painting the ruins a shade of orange and red. I actually enjoyed ruins for the first time in a while. However the next day in mid-day heat we were back to not liking them again and ended up taking off back west into ...

Palmyra

A travel blog entry by kimgatenby

... truck has never seen such a party.

The next mornıng a few of the partygoers were feelıng a lıttle sorry for themselves and were swearıng off alcohol. My favourıte quote of the day whıle we were drıvıng to Aleppo was 'Anyone else want a vom whıle we're stopped?'.

On the way to Aleppo we stopped to take photos at ...

Palmyra, oude stad van koningin Zenobia

A travel blog entry by hilde

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  • De tempel van Bel is gebouwd op een plaats waar, in het tweede millennium vóór Chr. reeds een heiligdom stond. Bel (of Baäl) is oorspronkelijk een Babylonische god die vereenzelvigd werd met de Griekse Zeus en de Romeinse Jupiter.
    De tempel dateert uit de 1e eeuw. Het tempeldomein is volledig ommuurd. De muren hebben een lengte van 205 m. Langs de binnenzijde van de muren staan Korinthische zuilen. Centraal is er ...

Guilty pleasures

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

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... in the world and you'd have a line-up out the door, but here in Syria, it's all but empty. I shared it with a couple proud Syrian guys towing their girlfriends around like little toys, and a bored looking French couple following their even more bored looking guide- who gave me a suspicious wink when I passed. A few locals lingered around looking to show me the hidden corners and the dark corridors to fetch a little baksheesh, but they were easily avoided.

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Middle of nowhere

A travel blog entry by meezerman

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... century.

The second day in Palmyra features a visit to the famous temple of Baal, which has served as a pagan temple, church, and mosque throughout history. It was eventually abandoned and used as a squatter camp up until quite recently. You can see that the metal reinforcements have been stripped out of all the columns by scavengers.

Our final sight in Palmyra is the ...

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