Syria Day 2

Lots of Syrian Boys wanted to take pictures with us











Center of the souk











Pigeons!!!! They flew around in a big group and hung out, it was cool









More boys









Ruins!







Shops










Entering the souk- Happy Eid!








Vendors






Lots of street food!












Day 2 in Syria was Amazing. Well actually the rest of the trip was great, just getting into the country was hard. The city has a really different feel from all the other Middle Eastern city's I've visited. It's small, enclosed in mountains and has a very European feel. I loved it! I actually feel like it's a bummer that America and Syria dont have a better relationship, Damascus would be a wonderful place to study, its middle eastern but so different. Again, I loved it.

So after our long first day we woke up and decided to just walk around Old city in Damascus. It was about a 20 min walk from our hostel to the gates of the old city. The old city is basically a bunch of souks connected, with a Muslim and Christian quarter. It was the BEST souk I've been to because it was really cheap and also really old. I cant describe how cool it was walking around, you really felt like you had gone back in time, there were such old buildings and even some ruins. It was awesome and really different because the whole thing was totally enclosed. We basically spent the whole day shopping and walking around. We ate lunch in a cute cafe and went into a mosque. I liked the mosque because we all had to cover ourselves in traditional garb... it was neat to enter a Muslim mosque, although we all looked really goofy. We also saw and toured an old "palace". It was a really great day. I hope you all enjoy the pictures :) There's a lot there! This post just has the souk pictures, I really wanted to show a lot of them, my next post Ill include the mosque and palace pictures!