Me and a guy from the hotel decided to head towards the Krak des Chevaliers castle and other ancients ruins just east of Hama. We arranged a driver to take us to these places. He couldn’t speak good English so it was difficult to know what we were looking at. The Krak des Chevaliers castle […]
All posts for the month March, 2017
Syria – Castles and Ancient Ruins
Posted by prisonpl on March 23, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/03/23/syria-castles-and-ancient-ruins/
Syria – Hama
(Continued from “My Journey Through Syria in 2011 – Aleppo“) I spent a few nights in Hama, arriving from Damascus by bus. Again the time period was May of 2011. I intended to stop here to take a day trip to the well-known Crac des Chevaliers castle just west of Hama. At the hotel there […]
Posted by prisonpl on March 12, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/03/12/syria-hama/
Palmyra Syria in 2011
Palmyra has (had) among the world’s greatest ruins of the Roman Empire. I stayed in Palmyra for three nights. This was in mid-May of 2011. I arrived from Hama. During my entire stay, I saw just one other foreign tourist, who was from Germany. I basically had Palmyra for myself. There was a lot of […]
Posted by prisonpl on March 4, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/03/04/palmyra-syria-in-2011/
