Every number on this page is invented. Illustrative breakdown. The percentages, the guild count and the annual totals are invented for the demo — there is no company behind them.
One booking, broken down
Seven-day journey · per person · $1,250
Amounts update with the currency you chose in the header. The Syrian pound figures use the redenominated currency introduced on 1 January 2026, at an indicative rate.
Beds and tables
Courtyard houses, family hotels, the kitchens that feed us
Guides and drivers
Monthly wages, not per-traveller piecework
Roads and entries
Fuel, vehicles, site tickets, permissions
Workshops
Paid to the maker in full, receipted in front of you
Guild restoration fund
Set aside on payment, spent on roofs, looms and tools
Running Arsu
Office in Damascus, insurance, tax, this website
What is actually true here
The crafts are real, even though this company is not. Aleppo soap — sabon ghar, laurel and olive oil, cured six to nine months — was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2024. Damascene brocade, mother-of-pearl marquetry and the Hama norias are all living trades with people still working in them.