We were going from Tartus to Latakia and the main attraction of the day was Saladin Castle. Nobody knows when the first castle was built but when Alexander the Great invaded Syria in 333 BC, the castle was already there. It went through a number of historic stages: Byzantine, Crusaders and Arab-Islamic, and a series […]
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Bulgaria – Lebanon Technically, all we needed to do at the border was to pay for our visas that had been already issued to us and to get our passports stamped. Harry and Fadi collected the money and passports and disappeared in the building. The group waited outside, and waited and nothing happened. We milled
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Visiting Syria was not on my short-term bucket list, far from it, but some things just happen as if they were sent to us from above. A post on the NomadMania website advertised a 12-day trip to Syria in September. Interested people should contact Harry. Having no idea who Harry was, I dropped him a
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