Syria Highlights Tour
6
Days / 5 Nights
Crossroads of History with Charming
Boutique Hotels in Syria
Day 1 (Airport – Damascus)
Arrive Damascus International Airport.
Meet & Assist, transfer to hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Day 2 (Damascus).
Breakfast, full
day Damascus city tour: visit the National Museum (10
000 years of culture) handicraft market (the best hand made crafts of
the Middle East ), Azem Palace (a perfect example of a
traditional Damascene house, an ethnic museum now). Umayyad mosque (a place for
worshiping since the first millennium b.c), the straight street (the via recta,
the place where St. Anania met St. Paul and converted him) the church of St.
Ananias, the window of St. Paul and a stroll in souk hamidieh (one
thousand and one kinds of goods), ending the tour by a panoramic tour view from
mountain Kassion, back to hotel, dinner and overnight.
Day 3 (Maalula- Krak
Des Chevaliers-Apamea-Aleppo).
Breakfast, Departure for Aleppo, en
route visit Maalula, Krak Des Chevaliers, (the most spectacular
12th-century Crusaders' castle of all), then to Apamea, proceed to Aleppo, Grand
Mosque, Khan Al-Wazir, hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 4 (Aleppo-St.
Simon-Palmyra).
Breakfast, Visit St. Simeon’s
monastery in the morning. Tour Aleppo, see the Aleppo citadel and the
National Museum. continue to Palmyra for hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 5 (Palmyra – Damascus).
Breakfast, beginning the city tour
of Palmyra. (Tadmor), in a desert oasis on the trade route
between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia, to visit its museum, the temples of
Bel, Baal Shamin and Nebo, the Roman baths, and the Valley of Tombs, in
the afternoon, departure to Damascus for hotel dinner and overnight.
Day 6 (Damascus – Airport).
Breakfast, transfer to Damascus Airport
for final departure.