Hauran Voyage Tips and guide

The Hauran is a volcanic plateau in southern Syria. It includes Damascus, the capital.

Map of Hauran

• 33.51305636.2919441 Damascus — the capital and oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
• 32.736.5666672 As-Suwayda — Small city sometimes called Little Venezuela due to the influx of affluent Venezuelan Syrian immigrants.
• 33.72472236.1002783 Al-Zabadani — summer resort and hill station
• 32.62527836.1061114 Deraa — an ancient city on the Jordanian border.
• 33.44722236.3361115 Sayyidah Zaynab — an important destination for Shī‘a Muslim pilgrims containing the grave of Zaynab, granddaughter of Muhammad.
• 33.69583336.37756 Saidnaya — home to a Greek Orthodox monastery believed to have been founded by Byzantine emperor Justinian I,
• 33.96722236.6572227 Yabroud — home of the oldest church in Syria

• 32.51666736.4833331 Bosra — a Roman city in southern Syria close to the Jordan frontier noted for the use of black basalt stones and its well preserved theatre
• 34.02172836.8423442 Der Mar Musa — not a tourist site, but an active Christian monastery actively promoting Islamic/Christian dialogue. Welcomes Christians and followers of other religious traditions. It is 80 km north of Damascus.
• 32.85388936.6294443 Shahba — Former Roman city of Philippopolis.
• 32.89583336.6947224 Shaqqa — Small town and site of the former Roman city of Maximianopolis.
• 32.75555636.6166675 Qanawat — Small town with several Roman archaeological sites.
• Golan Heights (Syria) - mountainous area on the Israeli border
• 33.535.9666676 Rakhlah — Former Roman city of Zenopolis with ruins of two Roman-Phoenician temples

This area is probably safer than the contested Syrian Desert and the Kurdish areas, as the rebels have been cleared from Hauran. However, the area does sometimes see rocket exchanges between Israel and Iran-backed forces in Syria.