3-day route
Three-Day Damascus Circuit
The Old City of Damascus, day-trip to Bosra's basalt theatre, and Ma'loula's Aramaic monasteries.
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Damascus
The world's oldest continuously inhabited capital
Aleppo
City of the citadel, soap, and silk-road souqs
Homs
Ancient Emesa — gateway between coast and desert
Hama
City of the wooden norias on the Orontes
Idlib
Gateway to the Dead Cities of Northern Syria
Daraa
Granary of the Hauran on the road to Mecca
Bosra
Black basalt capital of Roman Arabia
Palmyra
Pearl of the desert, oasis of caravans
Latakia
Syria's principal Mediterranean port
Tartus
Crusader Tortosa on the Phoenician coast
Deir ez-Zor
Syria's Euphrates city
Raqqa
Once an Abbasid imperial capital
Maaloula
The cliff village where Aramaic is still spoken
Safita
A white Crusader tower above green coastal hills
Marmarita
The summer heart of the Valley of the Christians
Bloudan
Damascus's mountain balcony at 1,500 metres
Zabadani
Spring-fed valley town at the source of the Barada
Yabroud
A temple of Zeus turned cathedral in the Qalamoun
Qara
Medieval frescoes on the desert-edge highway
Al-Nabk
Gateway to the desert monastery of Mar Musa
Qatana
Orchard town under the shadow of Mount Hermon
Afrin
Olive country and the Iron Age temple of Ain Dara
A'zaz
Crusader battlefield town on the northern border
Al-Qusayr
Farming town between Homs and the Lebanese border
Tadmur (Palmyra Town)
The modern oasis town beside the ancient city
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3-day route
The Old City of Damascus, day-trip to Bosra's basalt theatre, and Ma'loula's Aramaic monasteries.
7-day route
All six Syrian UNESCO inscriptions: Damascus, Bosra, Palmyra, Aleppo, the Crusader castles, and the Dead Cities.
5-day route
Roman colonnades, theatres, and frontier outposts from Bosra to Apamea.
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