A female traveler documents her first visit to Syria in 2025, beginning in Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime. She explores the old city, meets locals, exchanges currency, samples traditional Syrian schwarma, and navigates the souks while assessing safety and daily life in the newly transformed country.
- Duration
- 29 min 43 s
- Start
- Crossing the border from Lebanon
- End
- Beirut
- Stops
- 6
- Channel author
- Flora Gonning
Timestamps and places
- — Beirut (Introduction)
- — Crossing the border from Lebanon
- — Damascus (First impressions of Damascus)
- — Trying my first Syrian shawarma
- — Into the souks
- — Umayyad Mosque
- — Jobar (Exploring Jobar)
- — Abu Saleh
- — The road trip begins
- — Maaloula
- — FInal thoughts
- — Next week
Route on the map
8 Days in SYRIA in 2025 (as a female traveler)