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The oasis of Palmyra, standing in the sand nowhere. Each plantation gets water form the small stream for a few hours a day or maybe one day a month. How can it be so green and prosperous? There are Palm trees and trees of Pomegranate and figs and olive trees

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra I think you would say that this is exactly how you expect a place like Syria to be, camels, tents, caravans,.. WRONG! This is the only place where I saw camels, for tourists! To the background you see peculiar tomb-towers. It was a very misty and windy day but this might have added some effects to the picture.

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra In the front are the remains of some pillars of the main Pillar Street. To the background you see peculiar tomb-towers. It was a very misty and windy day but this might have added some effects to the picture.

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra Do you see the little stream in front(bottom? It nourishes all this oasis in the middle of this steps.

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra Palmyra was the defiant city that tried to defy Rome and was destroyed by it after2 revolutions. You can see the Triumph Arch and Main (Pillar) Street. You can see the people leaning on the pillars. You can get, thus, an impression about their dimension.

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra In front Temple Of Baalshamin ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Shamin ) from 130AD and behind the castle of Palmyra built by Prince Fakhr Addin Al-Maani II of Mount Lebanon (17th century)

Palmyra is splendid, a very particular place. It is where the Roman and Sassanid Empires in the Antique met and their influence were mixed with the characteristics of the population by then Helenic-Aramean-Arabic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra To the right you see the end of the Pillar Street and to the left the peculiar tomb-towers. It was a very misty and windy day but this might have added some effects to the picture

To those who might not know there 2 Palm Sundays as there 2 Easters! One Easter is recognized by the occidental churches (Catholic and Protestant) and the other one by the Oriental Orthodox ones. This here is not a military parade but it is the procession of Orthodox Palm Sunday (this year at the same day of Easter Sunday of the occidental churches) in the Qassaa street in Damascus. These Church scouts would parade with instruments and flags and then children are parading in Feast clothing. Here you can see the people who are celebrating in their festive clothing,often very sexy dresses of the ladies...

At the foot of stairs leading to the majestic Grand Omayad Mosque you would find Al-Nawfara (i.e. the fountain) where there are 2 splendid cafés, one of them pretty traditional that are a haven for tourists who have sore feet from walking around, a place to relax, watch passers by and drink a tea

One of Damascus's 8 still existing gates. Bab al Faradis means the Gate of Paradise(s).It is almost not invisible here among the shops etc.

in Qaymariyah, Old City, Damascus

at the Spice Market (Buzuriyah)

or Pastırma, an Anatolian meat speciality (i.e. Turkish) made and sold in Syria by Armenians who migrated there in the beginning of the 2oth century. It has a very distinguished special smell and taste. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastirma

Here starts the spice market (Al-Buzuriyah). You can see one of these tiny shops filled with spices, herbs, perfumes and other "cures". You can see in the top of the picture the tiny minaret of a tiny mosque like many others all around the old city.

Here (to my left) starts the spice market (Al-Buzuriyah). The picture is showing some passers by and the continuation of the market