Zenobia Cham Palace Hotel
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Desert ruins of Palmyra, norias of Hama, & castles
Diary 7 Palmyra, Hama and Crusader castles
Friday 14th May 2010 Damascus – Palmyra (Tadmor to the locals)
We're taking the bus for the three-hour trip to Palmyra (current population 50,000), which is out in the desert. From early times it was a staging post for caravans travelling between the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and …
Palmyra, oude stad van koningin Zenobia
... waarin twee kamers -één noordelijk en één zuidelijk- elk met een plafond gevormd door een monoliet waarin reliëfs zijn gebeeldhouwd.
Ook het altaar bevindt zich binnen de cella. In de 12e eeuw werd de westelijke (hoofd)poort versterkt tot een bastion door de Arabieren.
- De colonnades langs de decumanus lopen van ZO naar NW over een afstand van 1,2 km. (Ter vergelijking: de colonnadestraat van Apamea is 1,8 km lang.) ...
A bit touristy but we liked it
... we have not grown tired of seeing yet another grand colonnade.
While the ruins were amazing it's a bit of a shame that the abundance of people at the country’s No.1 tourist attraction have taken the shine off the wonderful Syrian hospitality that we have grown to love………no free pickles with the hummus at lunch today…..barely even a ...
Let the Syrian roadtrip begin!
... we could eat or drink whatever we wanted or just chill out.
That night we saw our first ‘5* hotel’. Well, more like the cheapest budget option hotel that the ministry of Tourism could find, but still a bit better then the hostels I usually reside in. We also managed to get a couple of great meals in some small local restaurants. Syrian food is surprisingly tasty!
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Car trouble and machine guns in desert paradise
... from budget to luxury 5 star joints.
After a couple of hours of our early morning walkabout, we retreated to the van and dug out the electric heater while we had hot tea and breakfast. Later in the morning we biked over to the town to do a bit of shopping and a looksee. The town itself is a mixed bag of a place in a grid pattern of narrow streets. A few blocks are touristic, with the basic hotels, restaurants and photo and souvenir shops, but most of the city is ...
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