Bosra was my very last destination in Syria. It is an ancient Roman city located in the southernmost region of Syria near the Jordan border. It was only about an hour and a half from Damascus. The ancient Citadel below: Kids playing soccer: When I left Bosra, it was evening and getting dark. The buses […]
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Syria – Bosra and Daraa
Posted by prisonpl on April 21, 2017
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Syria – Mar Musa Monastery
Mar Musa was among the last place I went during my Syrian trip. This was back in June 2011. Mar Musa is an ancient Christian monastery located about an hour north of Damascus. It is one of the few surviving monasteries in the Middle East and dates from the 11th century. The monastery is perched […]
Posted by prisonpl on April 16, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/04/16/syria-mar-musa-monastery/
Syria – Damascus
Damascus is the heart of Syria. It is a city of almost two million. I spent a considerable amount of time here. Like many big cities in developing countries, a good bit of it is noisy, crowded, and polluted. I’m not a big fan of large cities in the poorer parts of the world, but […]
Posted by prisonpl on April 9, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/04/09/syria-damascus/
Syria – Castles and Ancient Ruins
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 […]
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/
Aleppo
I did a big Middle East tour back in the spring of 2011. I was traveling solo. This was near the beginning of the Mideast uprising. The reason I went was to see some of the historic sites before it was no longer possible to do so. It was timely because Syria was being devastated […]
Posted by prisonpl on February 18, 2017
https://prisonplanets.com/2017/02/18/my-journey-through-syria-in-2011-aleppo/
