Where we go
Ten regions, honestly described.
Each of these has a page saying what is standing, what was destroyed and when, and what the current access situation actually is — including where the answer is “nobody has verified that since 2014”.
DamascusدمشقStraight Street and the Umayyad courtyard3–5 days · from $450AleppoحلبThe citadel and a marquetry bench2–4 days · from $520PalmyraتدمرThe colonnade at dawn, a desert camp at night2 days · from $390HomsحمصKrak des Chevaliers, an hour west2 days · from $370HamaحماةThe norias still turning on the Orontes1–2 days · from $290LatakiaاللاذقيةThe coast, the mountains, and Ugarit3 days · from $410TartusطرطوسCrusader cathedral and the island of Arwad2 days · from $340BosraبصرىBlack basalt theatre, inside a citadel1 day · from $260MaaloulaمعلولاAramaic still spoken, in a cleft in the rock1 day · from $240The Dead Citiesالمدن المنسيةByzantine villages in the limestone hills1–2 days · from $300
DamascusدمشقAramean, Roman, Umayyad and Ottoman Damascus, still lived-in behind the walls3–5 daysAleppoحلبOne of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, rebuilding souq by souq2–4 daysPalmyraتدمرZenobia’s caravan capital: colonnades still standing, temples still rubble2 daysHomsحمصThe Homs Gap, and the Hospitaller fortress that held it for two centuries2 daysHamaحماةA river city of turning waterwheels, and a colonnade in the hills above it1–2 daysLatakiaاللاذقيةSyria’s Mediterranean coast, where the earliest known ordered alphabet was written into clay3 daysTartusطرطوسA Crusader cathedral on shore, and Syria’s only inhabited island three kilometres out2 daysBosraبصرىA black-basalt Roman theatre enclosed in a medieval citadel, in a living town1 dayMaaloulaمعلولاA cliffside village in the Qalamoun where Western Neo-Aramaic is still spoken1 dayThe Dead Citiesالمدن المنسيةByzantine farming villages, left a millennium ago, across the limestone hills1–2 days
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