Sights of Syria
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Before I begin to tell you about the attractions in Syria, I can tell you that if he did not Congresses (need a Syrian visa) - that can not be thought as a nice surprise!
When you enter to the city of Aleppo lion's head, sticking out of the walls of stone, affectionately bare their teeth. «Here are two lions, - the guide said- one lion is cheerful, the other is sad. There is an ancient practice: if a person is cheerful, he looks at the Happy Lion, if a person is sad, he looks at the Sad Lion». Whether the ancient custom is to run with the second, whether the guide mixed attractions and mean another couple of predators, but to understand the differences in the lion's expression is not possible. They are absolutely the same. «So who is cheerful, and how is sad?» Guide isn't bewildered: «And that everyone decides for himself».
Decide for yourself it accounts in Syria continuously. The biggest questions come to mind in the vicinity of Palmyra - the ancient city destroyed by the Romans. Here in the wilderness, to understand, you are funny or sad, it's not too easy. Speeches slowing, the words are repeated, intonation is not changing, the words are closed. Sitting on the ancient cemetery and surveying outskirts, consisting of the same burial grounds, sand and unbearably clean skies, willy-nilly think about things like the futility of all things and the inevitable end of their earthly journey. At the foot of the Tomb - not old, but enough time polished jaw; very want to believe that its lamb's. In the jaw teeth preserved from touching they come loose and fall in scorching dust. Everyone will be there.
Syria is a country of the past. But for those, who in the places, remembering Kleopatru and Hannibal all too well, feels not very confident, story archived very compact. For one bus transfer monuments of the second millennium (before, of course, the era), the strengthening of the Crusaders, mosques caliphate and cement plants replace each other in the window.
Most ethnographic museums, including the main - National, are places, in fact, daily - There are an assembly blacken for time coins and whiten the same time heads petrify gorgons and neglected patricians. You can view foto of this country on the best foto-gallery. To maximize feel this country in such manner, you need to walk the streets of the Old City of Damascus at least twice. At a fixed travel time.
By word of mouth imparted an apocryphal story about two hapless fools, five or seven years ago committed a attempt of robbery at home venerable old couple: both attempteds solemnly deprived of life with all the honest people of Syria. Tourist leaflet assert: «You can pass through the streets all night with an open box, up to the top packed rolles, and, rest assured, you will not touch».
A live stork are displaied for sale, tied for the leg to the heavy copper pitcher, set for artistic slicing cucumbers, Chinese toy kittens on the batteries, gold bracelets, a complete set of outfit for the belly dance, batteries for the Chinese toy kittens, latest-published Arabic game «Monopoly», terry towels, watches venerable firms Adididas and large - with size of melon! - Rubik's Cube, which is probably the biggest thing that comes to see. The goods are so many, and for the most part they are so strange and delicious in its inanity. Stork, remember, was also at one point a bargain very profitable, but in the overall wholesale confusion, he managed to peck up hobbles and shoot upwards the minarets of mosques of Omeyya.
But the disappearance of the bird will not notice, because the eyes riveted on the playbill theater. In the paintings of straining bicepses of screen actor Jean-Claude Van Damme that are indistinguishable from the bas-relief described Dovlatov University. Simply put, it is strikingly similar to a pig. It's not without difficult to break through the language barrier to the box office and get a ticket, penetrate inside. In the same conditions, and about the same price as last summer childhood, here you can see «Karate» - thriller «Claw of Tiger» with Bolo Yenga in the title role, or «sex» - light local erotica with lack of any attribution. The film can be started not from the beginning or end prematurely.
Real happiness moves by rolling at such moments. The wonders of the world are not particularly different from its image in the booklet and encyclopedias. Behold with thier own eyes, it's not so much to gain experiences, but tick off: was, seen, liked alot. A real experience of the traveler arrives at the balcony death fill with smoke threadbare cinema, on seance, which has happened fifteen years ago, in another time and climate zone, and even in another life.
