Damascus Hotels - Reviews and Rates

*** WARNING - The following description of our experience in Damascus will turn everything you think you know from watching CNN and listening to Homeland Security on its head.....**** Our departure from Jordan was no problem. Our entry into Syria was kinda sorta - well lengthy. Willa's American passport set off an immediate alarm when she tried ...

March 6, Friday Our breakfast is served to our room! I guess that is why there is a table and 2 chairs in the room. Len has a sore back from his lumpy bed. Mine was o.k. We ask for a different room and are moved down 1 floor and to the other side of the building. We are off first to the old train station to look at the stately building and take ...

Came back to Damascus in order to cross over to Lebanon. Didn't do much, walked around again and had 2 more local ice cream with pistachios. I went to the National Museum, the mosque and small handicraft market. We were trying to find out if we could go to Lebanon on the same Syrian visa, but were told we would have to pay again, the amount depe...

Arriving in Adana the following morning, I hopped in a taxi for the short ride to the bus station, got on a bus to Antakya with no trouble, and left within minutes. Three hours later I arrived at the bus station in Antakya where I was whisked into another bus bound for Aleppo, which left within minutes. An hour later we were at the border crossi...

Hello Everyone! Well, after 8 weeks in Damascus things are starting to come together! We have scoured our neighbourhood and feel very comfortable now. We are known in our local stores and are greeted well. Our Arabic is improving daily now and we start our official lessons in September. We can conduct ourselves at the local store totally in Arab...

A few shots from my day trip to Damascus while "en route" to Beirut.

Damascus (دمشق transliteration: Dimashq, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world (see section: Ancient history), before Al Fayyum, and Gaziantep. Its current populatio...

Nou, ik ben aangekomen, de groep is gezelli en alles verloopt tot nu toe vrij aardig! Zondag met de groep zelf een excursie geregeld naar oa. de 'Baptism site' - waar Jezus gedoopt is. Ook ik heb gedoopt - mijn hand in de Jordaan. Erg vreemde gewaarwording, op enkele meters afstand van Israel staan, overal hekken en wachttorens maar wel een blij...