Orient Hotel Palmyra

... Palmyra was at its height and aggressively set out to conquer new territories including Rome. She added many opulent touches to Palmyra including commissioning a massive stone pillar to be sent from Aswan in Egypt. The mind boggles as to how it got there ...

... and Bosra. But around 228 AD the Sassanid dynasty took control of Persia from the Parthian dynasty and pushed towards Palmyra. Around 258 AD Roman Emperor Valerian appointed an Arab named Odainat governor of Syria. The next year Valerian was defeated ...

... on any maps. I'm currently writing this in the Baron Hotel, which was at one point the end of the line for the Orient Express. TE Lawrence, Kemal Ataturk and Agatha Christie all stayed here. I just wish they'd redecorated the rooms since then. That said, ...

2 jours de visite de l'ancienne cité romaine, oasis sur la route de l'orient.

... others caught the taxi down. It was nice to have a good walk on a predominantly flat surface. The only problem with that was that Palmyra gets blackouts and halfway back to the hotel the power went out. Once we got back to the hotel we had a bit of a rest ...