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Sands Palmyra

City Center Square Palmyra, Syria

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Palmyra

A travel blog entry by kimgatenby

From Damascus we drove to the small town of Palmyra to see the Roman ruıns. There ıs somethıng lıke 50 hectares of ruıns to see but we kept close to the cıty as Palmyra ıs known to be a bıt ıffy for women. We had been warned by our tour guıde to stay ın groups of at least 2 women for safety. Naturally ı managed ...

Palmyra, oude stad van koningin Zenobia

A travel blog entry by hilde

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... was een oase op de zijderoute en werd steenrijk doordat de inwoners reizende handelaren bescherming boden tegen overvallen van bedoeïnen. Zelf noemden ze hun stad Tadmoor (wonder of mirakel).
De geschiedenis van de stad gaat terug tot het tweede millennium vóór Christus. Ze werd veroverd door Alexander de Grote en maakte - na zijn dood - deel uit van het Seleucidenrijk.
Toen de rijke oase, gelegen tussen de Romeinse provincie Syrië ...

Guilty pleasures

A travel blog entry by jmckerricher

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Tartus it turns out wasn't really much more than a dot on the map. Even the tourist information office couldn't give me much of a reason to stay. So I left. Off to Homs to see some ruins, and whatever else the city has to offer.

"How long will you stay in Homs?" "One day." "Only one day? It's not enough. We have many beautiful things to see in Homs. You must see the church with the belt of the Virgin Mary". So I went to the church, and I saw the belt and was ...

Car trouble and machine guns in desert paradise

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... far eastern point of our entire trip tonight. Well, maybe I will have to check that…was St. Petersburg this far east? I will leave that geographical trivia question to you to look up….



November 7, 2010: Palmyra

This is certainly a desert city, cold at night and warm in the day. We got up at 5 am this morning (the first prayer call was 4:15 am) and rode our bikes over to the entrance to the colonnaded ruins. Despite, or maybe because of, the clear ...

Desert ruins

A travel blog entry by nacrobat

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... al, considered "the most important religious building of the first century ADin the Middle East". There's also a colonnaded street, amazing monumental arch, theatre, large agora with remains of a banquet room and various other buildings. The real magic of the place though is the setting and viewing it in the early morning and at sunset is quite stunning, surrounded by desert and palm trees, the soft lights dancing amongst the ruins. Next ...

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