It's Magnificent really! Visit the most important sites of Syria in deep, and explore the rich civilizations passed by here.
| Day1 |
Damascus.
Arrive to Damascus airport. You will be met & assisted by your assigned guide. Transfer to your hotel, dinner & O/N.
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| Day2 |
Damascus.
After breakfast, we drive to the national museum of Damascus then head to the old quarter to visit the folklore museum, which is a typical 17th century Damascene house. We visit as well the Omayyad mosque & the tomb of the hero of Islam Saladin. After noon we continue the sightseeing, heading to the street called straight, St. Paul's window & St. Ananias chapel. The end of the day is highlighted by the view of Damascus from 350 meters above the city level. Back to your hotel for dinner & O/N.
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| Day3 |
Damascus/ Shahba/ Sweida/ Bosra/ Damascus.
After breakfast, we go for a full day excursion to the south to visit the basaltic hills and to view the great monuments of Sweida, Shahba & Bosra whose enormous edifices built of hard basaltic stones reveal a glorious past.
Back to Damascus for dinner & O/N.
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| Day4 |
Damascus/ Palmyra.
After breakfast, we depart for a long way drive to Palmyra, one of the greatest trading post on the antique Silk Road. We visit the museum, the temple of god Bel, the monumental arch, the viarecta, the agora and see some of the tower tombs, etc. We climb to visit Ibn Maan castle to watch the sunset. We end at the hotel in Palmyra. We check in, dinner & O/N.
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| Day5 |
Palmyra/ Crak des Chevaliers
After a splendid sunrise and a breakfast, we will gain then the Crak of the Knights, the most famous crusaders castles in Syria, and also one of the most beautiful examples of the medieval military architecture where Romanesque art and incipient Gothic mix. Dinner and overnight in Meshtayeh.
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| Day6 |
Amrit – Marqab – Ougarit
Breakfast. In Amrit, ancient Phoenician port, remain an enigmatic sanctuary drawn up in the medium of a basin and some surmounted tombs of curious monuments. After a stop with Tartous, old Tortosa of medieval time, we will visit the castle of Marqab, imposing and sinks franque citadel, which protected Banyas and the coast. We will then discover, close to Lattaqieh, Ougarit Ras-Shamra, one of the oldest sites of Syria where the first "alphabet" was found and now exposed in Damascus It was also one of the most alive ports of the Levantine coast. Dinner and overnight in Lattaqieh.
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| Day7 |
Saône – Apamea – Aleppo.
Breakfast. The morning, departure toward the castle of the Saone in the djebel Ansariye. The remarkable crusade fortress, in the Byzantine beginnings, rises within a framework of any beauty. Crossing the valley of Ghab, rich valley drained by Oronte’s river, we will go to Apamea. Founded at the Hellenistic time it counted more than 120 000 inhabitants. Seven kilometers of walls enclosed its buildings. We can still see there a superb cardo with colonnades, one nymphet, an agora, churches and villas Romano-Byzantine. We will continue our trip to Aleppo. Dinner & O/N.
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| Day8 |
Aleppo.
After breakfast, we leave for a full day sightseeing of Aleppo to include the
archeological museum, the citadel of Aleppo, the grand mosque. After lunch we continue the sightseeing by visiting the bazaars & the caravansaries of Aleppo. Back to your hotel for dinner & O/N.
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| Day9 |
Aleppo/ St. Simeon/ Ebla/ Aleppo
After breakfast, we leave Aleppo for a morning visit to St. Simeon cathedral, St. Simeon is considered the greatest hierarchy of all times. We drive vise versa to Aleppo for lunch. This after noon we motor south through the fertile country-side to visit Ebla the famous kingdom which yielded 17000 clay tablets of cuneiform. Back to Aleppo, dinner & O/N.
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| Day10 |
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for departure.
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