2006-12-29 08:55:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Other - Africa & Middle East
Syria is a great country to travel and has some very beautiful people.
My favourite place was Palmyra just north of Damascus. A friend and I climbed through the sand up to the top of the hill completely exhausted but feeling a real sense of accomplishment, until we saw the road on the other city of the citadel.
Damascus had great food and was quite a beautiful city. We had a great time when we watched Bloodsport (a bad Jean Claude Van Dam movie) in the cinema. The crowd were getting so into it, like it was a real fight. It was great.
People were happy when they learned that we were Australians and not American's. They don't seem to be very popular.
A great country and I would love to go back.
2006-12-29 17:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by Ships Ahoy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The CIA knows everything.
Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, France administered Syria until its independence in 1946. The country lacked political stability, however, and experienced a series of military coups during its first decades. Syria united with Egypt in February 1958 to form the United Arab Republic, but in September 1961 the two entities separated and the Syrian Arab Republic was reestablished. In November 1970, Hafiz al-ASAD, a member of the Socialist Ba'th Party and the minority Alawite sect, seized power in a bloodless coup and brought political stability to the country. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel, and over the past decade Syria and Israel have held occasional peace talks over its return. Following the death of President al-ASAD in July 2000, his son, Bashar al-ASAD, was approved as president by popular referendum. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in an ostensible peacekeeping role - were withdrawn in April of 2005.
2006-12-29 17:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very nice place to visit and warm people.
Great food - thats for sure-
Love to go downtown to Al Hamedieh Souq.
check this
http://www.syriatourism.org/
2006-12-30 00:04:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That it is saturated in ancient history and ruins
2006-12-29 16:57:30 · answer #4 · answered by dancingmaveric 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are very unstable.
2006-12-29 17:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Dead Birds Don't Poop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋