Bosra Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Destination 389

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From Jerash Claudio and me left
the city, and after a short ride of 50kms the lovley friendly and
relaxed country of Jordan. At border we proceeded through the paperwork
of our last Visa-Country Syria. Unfortunatley also a country, to show
their hospitality rather through a pricey permission to...

Madaba When we left the Dead Sea we went into the fossil rich mountains of Libb. A new road climbs from below sea level to a lookout point. The turnoff is next to a police check and leads to an iron gate. We rather went on towards Madaba. We skipped Mt. Nebo where Moses (of Forty-Years Travel co.) set eyes on the promised land before he died. In...

Took the 8am bus to Bosra. al-Wasim charges 105 pounds for the trip. The bus was new and the staff helpful. It's funny how most of the new buses here are Temsa (a Turkish company) buses. It took 2 hours to get to Bosra, which is an ancient Roman city of basalt. The basalt black makes you feel as if the town has been burnt down, but of course tha...

When the day began, if someone told me that it would end in Irbid, Jordon, I would have first asked them where Irbid was, then next asked why someone would go there, then wonder how it would all happen. The bus from Damascus stopped at the Roman city ruins in the center of town. Here, I walked around the colonnaded streets and the amphitheatre, ...

My last day in Syria started nice and gradually, like many of the days on this trip. Two nice glasses of freshly-squeezed juice, and a handful of zattar pizza-thingies; sort of small mini-pizzas with zattar (a thyme-based spice mix) on top. I performed a bit of transportation relay, taking the four main for-hire road vehicle types. The first leg...

Our day trip to Bosra was amazing! We visited a few small towns on the way south. In one town called Shahba, (or Phillipa)we saw some fabulous mosaics. This village houses some ruins from the year 244. Syria gave an Emperor to Rome and his name was Phillip the Arab. There is a wonderful small amphitheatre where locals viewed the beloved blood sp...

The book didn't say much about Bosra except that it is quite pleasant compared to neighbouring towns, hence worth a stay if you could get there, so I jumped out of the service taxi just inside the Syrian border and waited by the side of the road for some transport to come by. It didn't take long - there's always some bus, cab or private car will...

Big day: Wake up and have a final tea with my friends at the starcross'd lover's cafe and leave Damascus. On to Dera'a, to Bosra, back to Dera'a, past the Jordan/Syria frontier (with a smuggler) to Ramtha and finally to Irbid. It seems like everything was coming to a close in Damascus. Act Five Scene Five, is it(?), that Romeo and Juliet are car...