I was fortunate enough to go there as a tourist about a year before everything started getting blown up.
It was a beautiful place with some of the most amazing heritage anywhere in the world. It's really hard to do it justice with words, but there was something very magical about the place. I still consider it to be the best place I've ever been to.
Here are a few images I took while I was there. I have hundreds of photos, of places that probably no longer exist or are severely damaged.
There is a particularly memorable photo there (to me) of some kids who were running around a mosque in Aleppo.
Just behind the citadel in Aleppo was the souk which I think is also completely destroyed now. I remember having a conversation with a teenage boy there who was selling some soap (trying to rip me off!) that Aleppo was/is famous for.
It was a beautiful place with some of the most amazing heritage anywhere in the world. It's really hard to do it justice with words, but there was something very magical about the place. I still consider it to be the best place I've ever been to.
Here are a few images I took while I was there. I have hundreds of photos, of places that probably no longer exist or are severely damaged.
There is a particularly memorable photo there (to me) of some kids who were running around a mosque in Aleppo.
Just behind the citadel in Aleppo was the souk which I think is also completely destroyed now. I remember having a conversation with a teenage boy there who was selling some soap (trying to rip me off!) that Aleppo was/is famous for.
http://imgur.com/a/gkqlj#0