Destinations
The Traveller
Syria to visit — cities, nature, culture
Damascus
The oldest capital, jasmine in the oldest lanes
Aleppo
A citadel and souks rebuilding their famous soap
Palmyra
Zenobia's colonnades rising from the oasis again
Krak des Chevaliers
The crusader castle textbooks dream about
Bosra
A black basalt theatre seating five thousand ghosts
Maaloula
Cliff convents still praying in Aramaic
Latakia & the Coast
Mediterranean beaches below Saladin's castle
The Dead Cities
Byzantine villages standing empty in olive hills