 Road through the Syrian Desert leaving Palmyra |
 Iraq and Damascus to the left, and our route, to Homs and Tartus to the right |
 Truck with two decks for transporting sheep |
 Blacktop road through the empty Syrian Desert |
 Beehive house, Al-Fruqlos, Syria |
 Beehive house, Al-Fruqlos, Syria |
 Beehive house, Al-Fruqlos, Syria |
 Beehive house, Al-Fruqlos, Syria |
 Beehive house, Al-Fruqlos, Syria |
 A short distance esat of Al-Fruqlos, the road enteres an more fertile region |
 Olive orchards, Syria |
 Olive orchards, Syria |
 Olive orchards, Syria |
 New residential areas on the southern end of Homs |
 New residential blocks, Homs, Syria |
 Road signs directing me through Homs |
 Homs, Syria |
 Former President Hafez Al-Assad at the entrance to Hama |
 Syrian taxi, Hama |
 Heading for the center of Hama, Abdl' Nasser Street |
 Mosque, Said al-a'as Street |
 A large mosque on the north side of Hama on the main road to Aleppo |
 Mosque, Hama |
 An old Mosque along the Orontes River, Hama |
 Orontes River, Hama, Syria |
 Hama, town of the norias |
 Norias are giant medieval waterwheels used to convey water via aqueducts to irrigate fields |
 17 of these giant norias remain in Hama |
 Remains of an aqueduct, Hama, Syria |
 Man chasing a sheep while local boys return from swimming |
 Local welcoming me to Hama |
 Dam along the Orontes River, Hama |
 Dam along the Orontes River, Hama |
 Al Nouri Mosque, 1172, Hama |
 Al-Nouri Mosque, Hama, Syria |
 Map of central Hama |
 Nouris behind the Al-Nouri Mosque |
 Al-Nouri Mosque and the Orontes River |
 Domed building near the Al-Nouri Mosque, Hama |
 Apamea Cham Palace Hotel, Hama, Syria |
 Boy on a bike with a NY Yankees hat, Hama |
 Another young boy in Hama |
 Nouri, a giant medieval waterwheel used for irrigation |
 Many of the nouris still rotate making a creeking noise |
 The nouris once held buckets to raise the water |
 Looking up |
 The axle of a giant nouri waterwheel, Hama |
 Waterwheel and the Orontes River at the Al-Nouri Mosque |
 Backside of the Al-Nouri Mosque, Hama |
 Palestine Languages Institute, Hama, Syria |
 Narrow alley leading to Azem Palace, Hama |
 Old town, Hama, Syria |
 Azem Palace, Closed Tuesdays |
 Kasr Al-Azem, Hama |
 Old town, Hama, Syria |
 Haaj and Umrah tours to Saudi Arabia by Procare Travel & Tourism, Syria |
 Fountain in the center of Hama, Syria |
 Noria Al-Jisriyeh, Hama, Syria |
 The locals must get tired of the groaning and creeking noises as the wheels turn |
 Noria Al-Mamouriyeh, Hama, Syria |
 Noria waterwheel on the Orontes River, Hama |
 Parkland along the north shore of the Orontes River, Hama |
 Noria Al-Mamouriyeh |
 Hama, Syria |
 Flowering bush and the Mosque Al-Nouri with its waterwheel, Hama |
 Noria, Hama |