well i cud've snuck into iraq as everyone around me was doing... was pretty tempted an all. but syria is pretty much a safe bet, ppl do often go there in their thousands. :)
these images are surely nice but some ofem taken mustve by you mamooli.and what was you doing on women section too when you said that what s that man doing there on wrong side.think abt yourself too then say to others.dont mind but its true.you knw what i mean?and other most impotent thing is dis that you should be carefull abt takin pics cuz these are 4om holy shrine and you and others must've do respect o fthe shrine.and inside of the shrine u also taken womens pics aswell .might these women will mind if u put them pics 4 show 2every1.
Janwar; are you going this year sometime? I hope you do get the chance, syria is a great place to visit. Havent been to Iran, but there are plans in the pipelines.
Dua Zahra: I can assure you I am on the right side of the partition.
Mehanz; I hope you will one day inshallah. an if you do, plz make it longer than a week.
LuxuryItem: Sorry i didnt mean it like that. Although Shaam/Syria is belived as the authentic place of Bibi’s burial by most, they also have a seyda Zainab in Cairo and alexandria, as some believe that is the actual place of the grave. Hence the ‘is said to be’. However this is the most credible place out of all of them.
lucky for me, I didnt have to go thru US customs. They’d most likely would have pulled me in for grilling. UK one though, had no problem with it thankfully.
These pics are of outside haram but in the inner courtyard. (Theres also an outer courtyard).
The huge doors to the inner courtyard.
The view when you enter the huge door;
The outside view of the mosque:
One of the doors to the entrance to the Zari/mosque.
Just before you enter the mosque, this is the porch going all the way around,with its intricate design. Its a cool place to sit when its packed in doors and too hot to sit in the courtyard.
(thats an iranian group)
We caught a baby pigeon waiting for its mam to feed it.
here she comes. The mam flew upto the baby several times, gave it food and flew off again to find more. We stood there and watched.
A lil girl oblivious to everything, playing in the courtyard.
Food is generally nice in Syria. The first night, we had a huge shwarma and salad, and it was decorated really nicely too. i dont remember much else, apart from chilloo kebab, iranian rice with fries (thats their style), huge naan that never dried up, and the ususal junk food like pizza and chips and bebsi etc. we also had a caterer who sometimes brought the food over if we were too knackered to eat out.
Oh yeah, we drank tea in tiny shot glasses, and with my father being used to drinking atleast 2 cup a day, those shot glassess were right teasers. one sip and its all gone.
An apparently foreigners should stay away from eating salad as its most likely to cause a stomach upset. However, get this, daal as in lentils is a rare speciality in Syria, hence they’re very expensive too. So whenever we had a dawat, there was daal in all its glory. and it was bloomin delicious too :k:
Thursday evening Dua Kumail time. Its pretty much packed and the atmosphere in the courtyard is great. People relaxing in the cool evening, meeting people from different parts of the world, kids playing about, and young girls selling stuff to the customers.
Masha Allah nice pictures. Some of the pictures are really sharp but some are blurry try to keep your hands still for a second after taking picture. One question how you entered into Ladies section in very first picture (ignore my question if you are a female)
can you please post some more pics of the other many shrines that are in syria
...specifically tombs of ubay ibn ka'b(ra), miqdad al-aswad(ra), hujr ibn adi(ra) and the place where heads of the martyrs of karbala(ra) are buried ....thanks
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