Starting this 220 km. trip to the farthest village from Damascus, you will reach Maaloula for lunch and benefit
from the bright midday sun for your visit. To achieve this program in one day only, you will have to have at your
disposal a private car or cab, otherwise you will only have time for Seydnaya and Maaloula (in this order) if you
use public transport (bus or collective taxi).
Starting this 220 km. trip to the farthest village from Damascus, you will reach Maaloula for lunch and benefit
from the bright midday sun for your visit. To achieve this program in one day only, you will have to have at your
disposal a private car or cab, otherwise you will only have time for Seydnaya and Maaloula (in this order) if you
use public transport (bus or collective taxi).
Using the Damascus-Homs freeway you will reach the village of Nabk quickly by crossing a pass of 1515m. between
the mountains of the Anti-Lebanon and the Palmyrene, along the Syrian desert. After about thirty kilometers, the
countryside becomes rather bleak on account of very weak rainfall. Here we are below the 200 mm. rainfall limit
marking the difference between areas where dry cereal culture is possible and desert areas, with a whole gradation
between the steppes and absolute desert. In these parts there are no maritime rains on account of the high summits
of Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon.
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