A placeholder & links covering the whole journey can be found through the link here and below:
Set off around funeral tombs times two (guide Najib)…
Then toured Museum before touring ruins – small temples, Avenue, Agora, amphitheatre, tetrapylon etc. Huge site.
Then onto temple of ball – very well preserved. Holy of holies etc.
Then had tea at Abdul’s hotel and onto citadel for wander round…
back down to town and through oasis – back into town – shopped a little (tea with John bought pot etc.)
…then back to hotel for tennis etc.
…then dinner at Palmyra restaurant – baked kofte and a gift of spices – early night again.
Another fabulous day, this. It is so sad that ISIS has all-but destroyed this site and much of what we saw. It was a magical place to visit in 1997.
All the photos from the Syrian leg of our journey can be found here or below:
