"Wilfrid Thesinger annotated the saleroom catalogue which disposed of his lifelong collection of Arabian travel-books. Beside Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, he commented, “No other book about Arabia can compare with this.” T. E. Lawrence had..."
The Best Travel Writing About Syria
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Syria and general Syria travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Syria
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Charles Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
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A Journey to Bosra
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"I know a woman who offers up her necklace of stories, a string of ancient stones mixed with worn glass trading beads, to her children. I have watched them finger the different colours and feel the shapes that have come warmed from their mother’s..."
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Damascus: A City for Shopping
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Nick Maes
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"Not everyone enjoys shopping; especially blokes, and in particular not this one. That anyone can wring a scintilla of satisfaction from trawling around a store in the hope of making a purchase baffles me. But then I suffer from a rare..."
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Palmyra: In The Footsteps Of Lady Jane
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Fiona Dunlop
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"To one side of the road stretched a stark escarpment, to the other the march of huge pylons, otherwise the smudgey yellow horizon was empty bar the occasional truck. We passed a daunting highway sign to Baghdad then, minutes later, a more rustic..."
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Aleppo
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Nick Maes
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Syria
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The Northeastern Desert
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Aleppo
"As I moved through Syria, I became an idiosyncratic time traveller; quickly realising it is impossible to tread anywhere that hasn’t already been visited, inhabited or invaded by Phoenicians and Egyptians, Romans, Mamluks and the Knights Templar. TE..."
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Syria and Lebanon Notes
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Sarah Anderson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"Damascus has a valid claim to be the world's oldest inhabited city. Today it combines the unchanging feeling of the Middle East - with its suqs, mosques and narrow streets - with increasingly modern surroundings. For an international-type hotel,..."
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Ancient Aleppo
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Amar Grover
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Syria
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The Northeastern Desert
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Aleppo
"I disrobed in a circular hall beneath a lofty dome and, swaddled in towels, shuffled to the steam room. Heat lapped my skin, visibility was poor. After sweating like a cheese, a mumbling shadow led me, lamb-like, to the bath room. Spread-eagled on..."
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Elusive Aleppo
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Mark Hudson
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Syria
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The Northeastern Desert
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Aleppo
"I’m lying on a rooftop in Aleppo, one of the oldest cities in the world. Pigeons gust over the ramparts of the ancient citadel, as the call to prayer goes up from first one mosque, then another - the long wavering notes overlapping, filling the..."
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Syria & Lebanon Round-up
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Sarah Anderson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"Damascus has a valid claim to be the world's oldest inhabited city. Today it combines the unchanging feeling of the Middle East with its suqs, mosques and narrow streets with increasingly modern surroundings. For an international-type hotel stay..."
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Seidnaya
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William Dalrymple
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
"The Convent of Our Lady of Seidnaya is a Greek Orthodox convent in Seidnaya, Syria, three hours’ walk from Damascus. The monastery sits on a great crag of rock overlooking the orchards and olive groves of the Damascene plain, and at first sight,..."
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