On my way back

Hi, Well this is the end of my trip and i had a wonderful time seeing new things so now im on my way back to NZ so ill see you all soon!

Mummies!!

These are the mummies that have been there for hundreds of years from the people who were at war a long time ago. This is also in the Ancient city of Palmyra in a museum called Palmyra Archeological museum.

Roman Empire in Syria

This is the Temple of Ba'al and is considered the most important religious building of the first century AD in the Middle East. It was built by the Roman Empire hundreds of years ago. This place was the colonnaded street that goes 200 kilometers which starts at the city of Palmyra and rides to the city of Damascus.

View from the castle

This is the view from the castle of the desert. They put castles on high places so that they have an advantage of having the view to see who and when people are coming too get ready for a battle. Syria is one of the most historical places in the world, it has every historical merchandise and the richest history in the world.

Exploring the castle

This is the inside of the castle and it is like this everywhere in the castle but there is bedrooms but you can't go inside because they are too dark. There is a guillotine where they used too slaughter people if the betrayed there army or if they find enemies around. They would kidnap them or just kill them with a bow n arrow.

Salah Al-Din's castle

This is The Great Sultan of Egypt and Syria's castle that has been there for 900 years. It was used for wars against the Crusaders many years ago. This is the mountain in the middle of the desert. People lived in this castle and the temperature rises to as high as 50 degrees Celsius.

Palmyra, Syria (Desert)

In the Ancient city of Palmyra which is surrounded by hundreds of kilo meters of desert and that is the city from the top of The Great Salah Al-din's castle which he and his followers built at the top of the mountain 900 years ago and the castle is still standing today.