Qasr Al Heir Al Sharqi

We’d been searching for Qasr al Heir Al Sharqi, the isolated ruins of a magnificent Umayyad palace, some 120 kilometers in the desert north-east of Palmyra, Syria, and we’d found them. After a failed attempt the day before, we were elated. At the end of our ambles we saw two young boys striding across the … Read more about Syria: the people you meet, part 2