Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this Hotelal-Gawaher Hotel Aleppo
Dodging cars in Aleppo
24 Oct
This morning I woke up with diarhoea again and I think its because of the fish kebab I had the night before. I never learnt my lesson from Tibet, never ever eat fish in a place where logically, fish is hard to find. Antakya is basically inland and desert and the only water around is the Orontes river, where its just a muddy canal in the …
Syriasly Glad to be Here
Wow... where to begin....
The original plan Sarah and I had before leaving Canada was to travel overland to Syria from Turkey, then find a cheap flight to India from there. As it turns out, our passports were held for nearly 6 weeks by the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, after we had attempted to plan for traveling through Iran, Pakistan and into …
Culture Shock
Having come from Istanbul - where life continues unabated and care-free in the omnipresent gaze of Kemal Mustafa Ataturk - entering into Aleppo after a thirteen-hour journey was a total cultural shock. In Aleppo, men are men in smart or traditional dress, and women are women, wearing at least a headscarf but usually a chador, sometimes a nijab and …
Aleppo - ehh...
We looked to Aleppo as a place where we could rest and regroup to figure out where we would go next after Turkey. Our hotel at the Al Gawaher provided us with a lovely room complete with a balcony, just the space we needed to relax. We also heard that Aleppo was a fantastic place for food, the best in Syria as a matter of fact. We found the food to …
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