Damascus Hostel

... in Iran. Yazd is the oldest continually inhabited city in Iran, and possibly the oldest in the world, competing with Damascus. The old part of the city is filled with beautiful mud brick buildings, accompanied by spectacular mosques and minarets and a ...

The tour of the second axis of evil begins!    Damascus was quite a culture shock for the first day after having been in Iran for a few weeks.   There is a lot more activity on the streets, more shops, more people wandering ...

***  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 ...

I moved to another hostel, the Al-Rabie hostel outside of the walled old town which turned out to be the best hostel at which I have ever stayed, from both a people and ambiance point of view. Although like the immediate area, it looks nothing other ...

... abandoned.. it was slightly eerie, and I thought of some of my Syrian Jewish friends while I was there. Syria, and Damascus especially, had a thriving and respected Jewish community before things became too complicated after the creation of Israel. I was ...

... train wall, she was able to catch up on a few hours rest before we dove into our next city: the Syrian capital, Damascus.     Drowsily, I followed Sarah as we walked through the Old City, walking past the giant Omayad Mosque, through the ...

... very helpful. I am staying in a dorm with 2 other people for 550 Syrian pounds, including breakfast. Finding my way around Damascus has been quite a challenge. I have been using my compass quite often. Went to the Great Umayyad Mosque, built in 705 ...

... Christian Quarter of the walled Old Town, just off Bab Sharki, where I stayed for a couple of nights. The history of Damascus is such that many religions integrated and formed their "quarters" side by side, respecting each other. This included a Jewish ...

... a list of countries on the board with the cost...but I can't be sure...it will still be a slight risk.   Sheryl...how's Damascus?...I'm jealous I couldnt make it!  I hope you have a great time. And enjoy Beirut, i've heard its awesome. ...

... the same to happen like when we arrived in Aleppo and get lost for hours, we decieded to take a taxi to our chosen hostel. Damascus is very pretty, even though its a bigger city than Aleppo, its much cleaner and theres more to visit. Yesterday ...

... night.   The next day I set about an exploration of the city and quickly found myself gravitating towards Old Damascus. While not as immediately spellbinding as the architecturally stunning Old Sana'a (my spiritual home), it had its own uniqueness ...

... at my hostel in Amman was down prior to my departure, so I wasn't able to make advanced arrangement for accommodation in Damascus. That's my excuse anyways.  Thankfully I shared my taxi from Amman with an English speaking Syrian couple who were ...

... the internet is dreadfully slow at this cafe with wifi and on top of that I'm not sure why but travelpod isn't recognizing Damascus as a city and blah blah anyways... Anyways i left Hama today and everything went really well i arrived at the bus station ...

... time in town and not biding my time sitting in a little shelter.  The hike was easy and it was great to come down into Damascus "the friendliest town on the trail."  It's been billed as such a great place, that it is almost a let-down.  ...

... . They are tall, mostly made of rock and sand with not a single piece of greenery on them. When I arrived in Damascus, something pretty scary happened! I was planning on asking exactly where we were, but before I could, a man imposed himself on me, ...

... the story that some shared taxies leave if you are taking too much time at immigration so I guess we were lucky.  A journey to Damascus from there was about one hour and we got dropped off at the shared taxi stop.  From there, we had to take ...

... me 5 days free until ‘school’ starts next Sunday. Not sure what I’m going to do yet, maybe just explore Damascus, maybe venture a bit further afield if I find any other students with time on their hands. Or I could just work on improving ...

I arrived at Damascus Hostel at about 7:30 and ate breakfast, and then got a quick tour around the Christian quarter of the old city and bought a SIM card and changed money. I just woke up from a two hour nap, I was exausted from all the ...