Palmyra

Palmyra is Syria's biggest tourist attraction and is most famous for its hundreds of columns.









Now when I say that Palmyra is Syria's biggest tourist attraction that is a bit misleading. If this site was in Europe it would cost at least 15 euro to get in and would be crawling with tourists. But since it's in Syria it's free to get in and there is no one else here.



Roman columns are cool but I've seen a lot of them already, the best thing about Palmyra is the Towers of Yemliko, these multilevel burial towers. There is one that you are officially able to visit nearby but I was able to climb into the one on the left and explore on my own. There was a floor panel missing and it made climbing to the very top too dangerous, but it also has an underground portion and I was able to go into that. It was pretty spooky because I forgot to bring a flashlight.



Inside the tomb tower and the missing floor.



There was another tomb tower that I was able to get to the top of. This was the view.