Explore Syria's ancient wonders in a 5-day tour
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5 Days 4 Nights, Group: 1+ Traveler, Damascus - SY
2024-02-01
2024-02-05
Explore Syria's ancient wonders in a 5-day tour
5 Days 4 Nights, Group: 1+ Traveler, Damascus - SY
2024-02-01
2024-02-05
Pack comfortable shoes, respect local customs, try local cuisine, stay hydrated, and embrace history.
1st Day: Beirut Airport – Damascus
- Meet & Assist at Beirut Airport or around Beirut, move by our vehicle. Finalize crossing the Syrian-Lebanese border to the hotel in Damascus. Meet your guide in Damascus. If you time allows visit the Old City.
- Overnight.
2nd Day: Damascus City Tour
- Breakfast, then the tour starts with visiting:
- National Museum: As the country's national museum as well as it’s the largest. Sciences, geography, Religious services, Jewelry, funeral rites, storytelling in mosaics, war and wisdom.
- Umayyad Mosque: The Umayyad Mosque also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Its religious importance stems from the eschatological reports concerning the mosque, and historic events associated with it.
- Al-Azem Palace: Azem Palace is an important remarkably complete example of late Ottoman architecture in the Old City of Damascus. It shows the individual architectural style of Syria with its high quality of craftsmanship. It avoids external display, true to its genre, and it presents a reticent face to the city.
- Saint Ananias Church: It is of particular importance because it is attached to the memory of Saint Paul. Before his conversion to Christianity, he had a vision here that blinded him for several days and gave him an unshakeable faith.
- Al Hamidiyah Souk.
- Damascus Straight Street.
- Overnight.
3rd Day: Damascus – Maaloula – Crack des chevaliers – Al Mishtaya
- Breakfast in the hotel, then move towards Maaloula the only village that still speaks Aramaic, the language of Jesus, to visit the monasteries of St. Takla and St. Sergios and Bacchus.
- Continue to visit Crack des chevalier: the most beautiful, wonderful and complete fortress in the world, the crusaders made it the basic element of their system of strongholds on the coast.
- Al Mishtaya, overnight.
4th Day: Al Mishtaya – Palmyra – Damascus – O/N.
- Breakfast, departure towards Palmyra; (the city of palms) and that the Syrians call Tadmor (miracle in Aramaic) is the most important oasis of the Syrian Desert.
- The Temple of Bel: sometimes also referred to as the "Temple of Baal", was an ancient temple located in Palmyra, Syria. The temple, consecrated to the Mesopotamian god Bel, worshipped at Palmyra in triad with the lunar god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra and was dedicated in AD 32.
- The theater and the big colonnade: sometimes also referred to as the "Temple of Baal", was an ancient temple. it consecrated to the Mesopotamian god Bel, worshipped at Palmyra in triad with the lunar god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra and was dedicated in AD 32.
- Tombs: including tombs towers, tombs dug, tombs temples or individual tombs.
- Damascus, Overnight.
5th Day: Departure
Breakfast, Moving towards Lebanese border then arrival to Beirut airport ( arrival will be according to your flight departure time)