Palmyra Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

At a time when there where no major settlement in my country and my ancestors where busy helping there fellow Germanic tribesmen beat the Roman Legions in the Teuotoburg Forest. Down in the Syrian desert there  where a thriving oasis town of Palmyra it generated a lot of trade being on the trade route between east and west. It was conquered by the Romans and made their eastern most outpost of the Province of Syria.   The town is still inhabited till this day and it is s…

trip around some of the lesser-visited countries in the world. (photos only, for now). Syria - Lebanon - Jordan

Since I was headed north of Damascus, I planned to spend a couple nights in Palmyra to check out the world famous ruins.  This was an incredible site and fortunately because it was low season, the crowds were minimal.

A university trip to Syria - like a normal tourist, yet so different

Then it's off to Palmyra, the most stunning roman city ruins I've ever seen.  The columns glow red in the setting sun behind the plains of sand.  I can't believe anyone would purposely build a city in this wasteland.  Perhaps that's why it has been abandoned over the centuries.

Hello everybody :D I hope all like the photos from our trip in syria. I am happy i record the first meeting in my country and i meet with very nice and kind friend Eduardo from Spain in 5 days only we become a very close friends and more than friends he is now like a brother and i hope we meet again someday on his country or mine or any other place in earth travel together again. who will be 2nd meeting in syria? I am waiting! big thanx for Travbuddy about this great site

10 days with 45 archeology enthusiasts and two nice guides (a bedouin and a syrian) riding a bus across the two countries. Fascinating places, ruins, people and nature. Good food, but a quarter of our group caught the usual gastroenteric problems. Very nice weather except a sandstorm in Palmyra. We admired the signs of ancient civilizations and Roman Empire, and we were able to experience a Turkish Bath (same as Roman Thermae...) great! highly recommened!

An account of a solo journey through parts of Syria (Damascus, Palmyra, Aleppo) and Jordan (Amman to Petra)

Damascus and onwards

Today we went to Palmyra (which we were going to do later, on the way to Damascus). That is the largest Roman ruins we've ever seen, covering about 50 hectares. It was set against a backdrop of Arab funerary towers, and an Arab castle on top of a hill. Spectacularly impressive indeed.  

Palmyra (Palms in Latin, Tadmor to the locals), for those of you that don't know, is one of the great historical sites in the world. The ruins cover an area of around 50 hectares and are knocking on around 3,000 years old in parts, though the Greeks really built it up, as did the Romans. Its right in the middle of nowhere, 150 miles from a water source (other than the oasis around which it is located). There is also a Syrian Air Force base about 3 kms away which we passed on the coach on the …