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(13 days / 12 nights)
Day 01: Damascus
Arrive to Damascus International Airport. Meet and assist Advanced Travel tour escort Transfer to your hotel Check in and overnight
Day 02: Damascus / Bosra / Sweida / Shahba / Damascus
Breakfast Visit the ruins of Bosra which seems to have fallen asleep cause of the roughly - hewn blocks of stone black houses and amid black rocks, (The best preserved Roman theater in the world, (Roman theater in Arab Citadel) the gate of the Wind, the Main avenue, the Underground market, the Lantern gate, Al Omari mosque, The Byzantine cathedral, etc.) Drive to Damascus via Druze Mountain; visit Sweida and Shahba Overnight
Day 03: Damascus
Breakfast Full day sightseeing of Damascus includes the national museum, the folklore museum, Omayyad mosque, the street called Straight mentioned in the Bible, St. Ananias chapel and St. Paul’s window. Free time for shopping at the oriental bazaars Visit to Qasioun mountain a perfect panoramic view of Damascus. Overnight
Day 04: Damascus/ Crac Des Chevaliers/ Tartous/ Lattakia
Breakfast Drive northward to visit the Crusade castle (Crac Des Chevaliers) Optional lunch in local restaurant Afternoon visit Tartous which is faced by the antique Phoenician Arwad island, the Cathedral of our lady which was raised up by the mighty Crusaders. Drive north beside the Mediterranean coast to Lattaka. Check in and overnight
Day 05: Lattakia/ Ugarit/ Apamea/ Hama/ Ebla/ Aleppo
Breakfast Visit the excavated site of Ugarit which was a prosperous kingdom in the 2nd millennium B.C. , and where the thirty-letter alphabet found , Then drive east to visit Apamea , located in the heart of the golden Ghab Drive to Hama and visit the Waterwheels of the city. Drive to Aleppo, on the way visit the excavated site of the kingdom of Ebla (destroyed in about 1600 B.C. which is considered a U-turn in the history of mankind as a library of 17000 of clay tablet of cuneiform was brought to light after 4300 years of decay. On the way to Aleppo pass the unique beehives villages. Arrive to your hotel and overnight
Day 06: Aleppo
Breakfast Visit the gigantic Islamic medieval Citadel of Aleppo, the grand mosque of Aleppo which was burned down in the 10th century, the archeological museum of Aleppo. Optional lunch at typical Aleppo restaurant Visit the medieval bazaar and caravanserais stuffed with all kinds of goods and colors. Back to your hotel for overnight
Day 07: Aleppo / St. Simeon / Ain Dara / Aleppo
Breakfast Visit the green plain of Aleppo where hundreds of Dead cities are silently narrating the history of a prosperous Byzantine past; visit Al.qatura ruins which is back to the 5th century, the Cathedral of St. Simeon who spent 42 years of outdoors prayers and meditation on a top of a pillar Drive to visit the Aramaic site of Ain Dara, a huge bas-reliefs of mythological animals still guarding the temple of goddess Ishtar Back to your hotel for overnight
Day 08: Aleppo / Rasafa / Raqqa / Halabia & Zalabia / Deir Ezzor
Breakfast Drive east to visit the ruins of Rasafa which was built out of a rose-colored marble encrusted with gypsum. Afterward visit the Abbasid site of Al-Raqqa which stands on the left bank of the Euphrates river whose primitive foundation was on the hands of Alexander the great. Continue the visit down stream the Euphrates to Halabia and Zalabia, two sites flourished during the region of Queen Zanobia Arrive to your hotel in Deir-Ezzor Check in and overnight
Day 09: Deir Ezzor / Dura Europos / Mari / Deir- Ezzor / Palmyra
Breakfast Visit Dura-Europos the second importation post on the Silk Road after Palmyra. We continue the visit to the kingdom of Mari to see the excavated palace of King Zimri lim, the temple of goddess Ishtar, Nini Zaza temple and the Zaqurat. Full day sightseeing of Palmyra includes the museum, the tomb, the famous arch of triumph, the temple of God Bel, the viarecta, Check at your hotel and overnight
Day 10: Palmyra
Breakfast Visit the archeological museum, some of the tombs Optional lunch is in a local restaurant Continue our visit to Diocletian camp Overnight
Day 11: Palmyra / Ma’aloula / Saydnaya / Damascus
Breakfast Drive to Ma’aloula village, which is one of the most picturesque villages in Syria the people there still speak the Aramaic Language spoken by Jesus Christ. Their colorful houses are built on the cliff face like nests. Visit the early Byzantine church, Saint Tekla Monastery and the split, continue to Saydnaya, which has indeed grown up around an important convent founded in 547 A.D. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin (the Church of our Lady), an icon painted by St. Luke the Evangelist is hidden in a silver box in the monastery Drive to your hotel in Damascus Overnight
Day 12: Damascus
Breakfast Free day at leisure to explore the city’s old lanes on your own and to stroll through the teeming bazaars of Damascus Overnight
Day 13: Departure
Breakfast Transfer to Damascus airport for final departure.
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