Latakia Travel Blogs

I somehow managed to get myself to Ugarit by one of the local Van/bus transports. Ugarit(Ras Shamra) is considered the most important and ancient bronze age site in the midle east. I went there and was mozying about for about half an hour. I`ve seen more impressive ruins...these were pretty owergro…

Once again our alarm was set at an unearthly early hour. We had to get up at 5, because we would have to be at the train station at 6 - 45 minutes prior to departure. This was mandatory because of travel registration and passport checks. So we arrived at 6 o’clock sharp, only to find us chec…

The weather was bleak, rainy and dark when we disembarked from our train in Latakia, so we hopped into a taxi for the 10 minute journey to our hotel, which only cost 45SYP ($1). There were only a couple of couchsurfers in the City, but none of them hosted, although one guy ran the Safwan Hotel. Hav…

latakia sea city on the beach of median white sea and the main city for import & export and trade, the city connect syria with Euro and 1 from the main cities and there are the main harbor for that, when u go there u must rent home at beach for some days, in the summer Full people and maybe u cant found place empty and sure the price more than normal time in the year so u cant say about it cheap city. more there are (Salma village)&(Slinfa village) very nice and cold in summer.

A trip through ancient history

An amazing and cheap place and one of the best countries to go to if you want to see old castles!!!