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If you have two days to visit Damascus, we suggest that you spend a whole day in the old part of town taking your lunch in a small restaurant. The second day would be spent visiting the Syrian National Museum and the Tekiyeh, a hospice of Derwishes, in the morning, and in the afternoon to take a walk into the old quarters at the foot of Mount Qassioun, where houses made of wood and compacted mud along narrow alleys create the atmosphere of Arab cities of yesteryear. But why not extend you visit to Damascus even further? You would be able to have a taste of the variety of Syria with a visit to mountain Christian villages such as Seydnaya and Maaloula where people, in this latter, still speak Syriac, being none other than Aramean, an idiom which was the linking language in the Persian Achemenid Empire and was the most currently spoken language in Palestine at the time of Christ. We are convinced that you will not regret spending one more night in Damascus if this enables you to make a quick visit to the region of Hauran and Djebel AI-Arab with stops at Shahba, Sweida, Bosra and Ezraa (if possible in this sequence). This excursion will give you the opportunity to admire in Bosra one of the most beautiful Roman theaters still in good condition, or better still, to sit on its steps to watch some performance during the festival (you may inquire about dates or programs).
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