Palmyra Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today is day two in Palmyra. We started the day early to beat the heat as we explored the tombs of Palmyra. We visited two of the normal tombs - the above ground tomb (cannot remember the name off the top of my head but I do have it written down in my journal) and the Three Brother's Underground Tomb (unfortunately no photos were allowed to be t...

Palmyra - 2nd c. Roman ruins in the middle of the desert and lots of Bedouins . . .

March 10, Tuesday Part 2 Well, the tea get together was amazing! We ate dinner and went to the restaurant with the wi-fi. We got on for about a few minutes and then it was gone. The computer guru told us he thought we had a virus! Yikes. Then his friend's lap top went off-line, so we don't have a virus. Yeah! We noticed the young man outside wai...

From Aleppo we headed down to Palmyra. I was wanting to go, but didn't think we would have enough time on this trip, but we met a couple in Aleppo who had just come up from there and said it was easy enough. On the way down we had to go via Homs to change buses. While there we went out to the Crusader castle Crak des Chevillres (I have no idea i...

We have now reached Palmyra, I know that I have heard of it in classical literature, but I can't remeber excatly where. We left Hama this morning and arrived here around 2pm. We havn't done anything this afternoon as it is way too hot to do anything, it's about 45 degrees. In the evening we go to see the citadel at sunset. Take care. Best, Eva M...

December 3, 2007 Palmyra, Syria We suppose that most travel blog readers fall into two categories. There are those who started with us at the beginning and keep up to see how we are doing. There are fewer and fewer of them as we drag this out and the end is still not in sight. The other type of blog reader is more like us when we were planning t...

We left Hama and started our journey to Palmyra. The bus trip took about 2 hours. Palmyra is a desert city which lies in the middle of the Syrian desert. This city was the halfway point between Damascus and Aleppo. The caravans and people who used to travel this route used Palmyra as a point to have a rest, before they embarked on their journey ...

The bus trip through the desert to Palmyra was as unspectacular as any bus trip and quite boring, just the odd irrigated olive plantation to bring a touch of dusty greyish green to the otherwise dusty landscape. Palmyra town itself is an oasis in the desert landscape with date and olive plantations surrounding it. The ruins of the ancient Roman ...

We arrived here in Palmyra yesterday early afternoon, what a busy day we had! We were up early in our hotel in the town of Hama, we joined a private tour to the famous crusader castle of Crac Des Chevaliers which was about an hour and a half from where we were staying in Hama. It was an amazing castle, set high up in the mountains it was absolut...