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Laylak Room Our room The Old Vine is centrally located for all cultural sites in the Old City. The quiet safe street to the hotel.  All the streets are safe but very crowded.

Old Vine Hotel Damascus

92 Ammara Jouaniyeh, Ammara Old Damascus Damascus, 7165, Syria

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First Days in Damascus (Damask)

A travel blog entry by kdwali

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... who I had not spoken to asked me if I had said 100SYP. I confirmed (this was my opening price) at which point he started shouting and screaming. I walked away and he followed having a bit of a tantrum about my offer. At this point 2 other travelers that I had met in Aleppo appeared from the bus station having just arrived from somewhere else. We grouped up while the angry taxi driver followed ...

Syria Adventure Travel Company

A travel blog entry by syriaadventure

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... the very mount where, in the year 2,000 BC, Abraham is said to have milked his cow, giving the site of the city its name, Halab (in Arabic "to milk"). The long, winding stone bazaar of Aleppo is one of the most beautiful in the East, replete with locally-famous coloured silk scarves, perfumes, and soaps still made to ancient recipes.
On the northern coast, your imagination can wander back unhindered by the modern ships you see- to those early sailors who set forth from ...

Back to Damascus

A travel blog entry by meezerman

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... mentioned by name in the New Testament, and still there 2,000 years later. I later visit the Roman Arch, several gates, the chapel of Saint Paul (built on the spot where he escaped over the walls of the city), and the ancient chapel of Saint Ananias.

We have our final group dinner at a wonderful hidden gem of a restaurant near the gates to the old city where we say goodbye to our guide and those in our group who were leaving the tour in Syria. ...

Sweatin' it up

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

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... out into the sweet air of the resting room, where an attendant wraps me in fresh cotton sheets, and brings me cold water. It's hard not to feel like a king after such a treatment and thankfully the cost doesn't diminish this euphoria. The whole treatment costs 320SP ($7). For amusement sake I searched on-line for a hammam in Vancouver- $112, gets you all the same treatments. I figure if I go ten more times, I've paid for my flight.

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Como si no hubiera pasado nada...

A travel blog entry by yanostamos

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... que podemos hacer es intentar manejarlo lo mejor posible, aceptando lo no previsto e intentando aprovecharlo, así que no hemos tenido más remedio que disfrutar de Madrid en estos meses de coja caídos de cielo.

Y ahora en Damasco, de nuevo. Y da la impresión de que nada de lo imprevisto hubiera pasado. Acabamos de llegar y todo sigue igual, excepto las noches que son frías y mantienen la casa a una temperatura muy agradable durante el día, y ...

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