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Fortress way - Syria (05 days / 04 nights)

Day 1

Damascus.
Arrival to Damascus airport .Meet & assist by your assigned guide. Transfer to your hotel for dinner & O/N.

 
Day 2

Damascus/ Palmyra.
After breakfast, we leave our hotel for a half day tour in an exceptional example of the timelessness and universality of a great city-Damascus . The National museum, the folklore museum, the Omayyad mosque , The street called Straight, St. Paul’s window & St. Ananias chapel.We lunch in a cozy Damascene restaurant ( if included ). Free time to do shopping in the tempting Bazaars of a thousand item & an item . Afterwards we knock the road off to Palmyra . Arrive to your hotel in Palmyra, check in , dinner & O/N.

Day 3

Palmyra/ Homs/ Hama.
After breakfast, we move to explore Palmyra, the city of the date palm,wealth and greatness . We visit the tower tombs & the famous underground tombs because of its unique fresco, the administrative quarter of the city .... Lunch is in a local restaurant ( if included ). Continue the visit to the archeological museum & Diocltian camp . We drive eastward to Homs, then to Hama, the old Aramaic Kingdom, whose romantic beauty and Eastern charm linger on the banks of the Orontes. Check in, dinner & O/N.

Day 4

Hama/ Crac Des Chevaliers/ Ma’aloula/ Damascus.
This morning, we visit the huge ancient wooden Waterwheels from the middle ages of the city , then we drive south to visit the mosque of the great Islamic leader Khaled Ibn Al Walid . We continue our visit to the Crac Des Chevaliers, the castle which Lawrence commented on , as being the wholly admirable castle in the world .Upon arrival we start the tour by climbing up till we get to the leader’s own watching tower . Lunch is in the King’s daughter tower.( if included ) We farewell the castle & drive southward to the historical city hidden among rocks , Ma’aloula, the village in which tradition, mythology and even the old Aramaic language still drawing their daily way of living as they are isolated in the Qalamoun range of mountain.Continue to your hotel in Damascus for dinner & O/N.

Day 5

Damascus/ Airport.
Depart to Damascus airport for departure.

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