Remembering Syria

We were in Syria in 2011, for an 8 day guided tour trip around the country. Since we left, almost every day, I hear the news about the uprising in Syria . Believe it or not, today was exactly the day in 2011 that we left Syria at the border for Jordan and at the same time the uprising started to erupt in Daraa, the border city with Jordan. Since then, thousand have been killed and millions made homeless in Syria’s civil war. Sadly enough this has also caused irreparable damage to some of the world most precious historical sites.
We were lucky enough to see some of those historical sites all around Syria. I will dedicate my next posts to my memory of the good old Syria …

Please note a click with your mouse to top left hand corner of each picture gives a description.

Check out my other posts about Syria:

• 5 Day Photo Challenge: Syria’s Lost Generation
• Arabian Windows
• Damascus, In and Out the Old City
• Damask
• Inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
• Iranian Mosque
• Orient Palace Hotel in Damascus
• Palmyra
• Remembering Syria
• Syria in March
• The Great Mosque of Aleppo
• The Old City of Damascus
• The Souk of Aleppo
• The Umayyad Mosque
• Time to Pray
• View over Damascus
• Window with a View

Or full list post on Syria

Map of Syria:

The remains of the Temple of Jupiter, at the edge of Umayyad Mosque

Damasq – the famous red colour of Damascus that create it’s name for the colour as as well as the cloth type

Inside Assyam Palace, in the middle of the Old City of Damascus

The famous Hejaz Rail Station – The track was supposed to connect Damascus and Mediina in Saudi, but this is never materialised

Umayyad Mosque – one of the 4 most important mosques in Islam History

The very ornate Iranian Mosque, at the other end of the town

The head of a Corinthian column laying around all over the place in Palmyra

Bedouin kid posing for my camera…. where is he now? …. So many question could be asked for him…

The main gate to Palmyra, which is in the middle of the war

Series of Corinthian Columns in Palmyra

Resafa, another archeological site in Syria, built in the 9th BC by the Assyrians

Arabs normally are shy to be photographs, but not so with this good looking man that I met in one of the historical places in the countryside of Syria

Tea Man

Citadel of Aleppo –

Inside the Aleppo Citadel

The children who had a school visit to this citadel in Aleppo, they were laughing and chatting when we were there.

Aleppo’s Old Souq

Facade of Aleppo then: grey, dusty and unmaintained, but the ornament of the facade are still intact. I don’t know how it looks like now….

The smile – She smiled shyly, but she is not camera shy

Where they are? – Aleppo’s young people happily pose in front of my camera, I wonder where they are now?

Saint Simeon

Hama Water Wheel – The City of Hama, famous for it’s water wheel on the river Orontes, built in the 7th century. One of the largest had a diameter of about 20 metres and its rim was divided into 120 compartments. The picture shows one of the 17 water wheels survived to the 21st century. What I don’t know is whether this is surviving the civil war.

Krak des Chevaliers a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important preserved medieval military castles in the world.

Krak des Chevaliers

Krak des Chevaliers – lies between the cities of Tartus and Homs; situated in the Homs Gap, guarder the road between the Homs and the coast.

A view in Maaloula, a village around 56 km Northeast of Damascus and 1500m above see level, is where the language of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ and still used as a living language in this village.

Busra was one of so many Roman Cities, however, now it’s only a small village near Syrian Border with Jordan. This Amphitheater was the only ruin that was still intact, 2 years ago. Now, who knows….