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Palmyra
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Queen Zenobia
This is a top pick! ... 's’s facial masks, we had a great time talking about all sorts of things. Like camels. His father raises camels in Palmyra, and he’s just a good-old-boy who grew up on the range with a few camels to call his own. He told ...
Date pancakes vs. bananas
This is a top pick! ... moonlight in the distance. Amazing. The night was spent again at the pancake house, indulging in more pancakes. I could not leave Palmyra without trying a date pancake, the local specialty. I also tried a cheese and apricot jam pancake as well, which was ...
Desert Oasis
This is a top pick! And so we were off to see Palmyra or Tadmor, as the locals call it, Syria's greatest attraction. Palmyra is an ancient city that was built on an oasis in the middle of nowhere and has long since been reclaimed by the desert. A town has grown up around the ...
Idols and Ruins in the Syrian Desert
This is a top pick! ... sold their wares. A nearby agora was full of traders and tax collectors from the adjacent tariff court, building Palmyra's wealth. The floors were covered in fine mosaics of Mediterranean patterns and gods: Dionysus, Athena, Zeus, Solomon's Chains, ...
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Fantastic Syria
Posted by raniroo
... town and I highly recommend visiting to get a feel of what Syria used to be like. We also stayed in Hama and Palmyra (we were there NYE and it was snowing!). Damascus is a wonderful old city mixed with both muslim and christian quarters. We were in ...
Newbie: Istanbul to Cairo
Posted by Jambo
... to Petra and a great little place called Dana, up to the and Madaba and through to Amman. From there we crossed the border to Syria, heading to , and . In Turkey we visited , , , Patara, and . So, you could just do all that but in reverse. ...
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