We finished work at 6.30 pm today and went straight to dinner at a famous restaurant on top of the mountain overlooking Damascus. The sight from here is quite awesome. The photos show the panoramic view of Damascus taken when the sun was still there to when we almost finished our dinner into the evening. My Syrian colleague told me that there are about 2000 Mesjids in the city. There are quite visible by their green litted minarets. We tested the idea. We counted that there are about 10 mosques per square kilometer. The city is about 10 km wide and 20 km long. That’s 200 sq km. Multiply that by 10 – bingo – 2000!
Syrian foods without any doubt are the best in the Middle East. Syria however is not as well developed as her Arab neighbours because of the US economic sanctions. The country is also still technically at war with Israel. However the situation on the ground is very different. People are really friendly and living life as normal. Life is hard though, worsened by the migration of over a million Iraqis into the city. Life is even got harder recently as the government decided to reduce subsidy on petrol and triple the price of diesel.
We finished work at 6.30 pm today and went straight to dinner at a famous restaurant on top of the mountain overlooking Damascus. The sight from here is quite awesome. The photos show the panoramic view of Damascus taken when the sun was still there to when we almost finished our dinner into the evening. My Syrian colleague told me that there are about 2000 Mesjids in the city. There are quite visible by their green litted minarets. We tested the idea. We counted that there are about 10 mosques per square kilometer. The city is about 10 km wide and 20 km long. That’s 200 sq km. Multiply that by 10 – bingo – 2000!
Syrian foods without any doubt are the best in the Middle East. Syria however is not as well developed as her Arab neighbours because of the US economic sanctions. The country is also still technically at war with Israel. However the situation on the ground is very different. People are really friendly and living life as normal. Life is hard though, worsened by the migration of over a million Iraqis into the city. Life is even got harder recently as the government decided to reduce subsidy on petrol and triple the price of diesel.
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