Young boy selling sweetmeats in the market woman in traditional black dress and veil sitting on pavement behind.

View over the Euphrates River from the site of the ruined border fortress.

Local street vendor selling lottery tickets on the side of a path.

Local food served in small village hear Ebla on the road between Aleppo and Hama. Halab

View over the city.

View over village set into eroded red stone cliff face.

Recently built traditional mud beehive house

Equestrian statue of Saladin outside the Citadel walls.

Roman ruins with columns and pillars and The Islamic Fort in the distance. Tadmur

Crusader Castle in distance on plateau with village partly seen below

Crusader Castle in field of yellow wild flowers.

The Basilica of St Simeon. Ruins with tree in blossom in the foreground.