Travel Guide Golan - Al-Jawlan

From Damascus via the Quneitra road, you can go to Qatana (25 km from Damascus), with beautiful views of Mount Hermon. From here, by a small road that soon happens, you will reach the Romano-Byzantine site of Burqush. You cannot go beyond that because the road reaches the Lebanese border. You will need to put your vehicle in the military position and take a good left road. The half hour walk is rewarded with a superb view on the plain. A plain that stretches at the foot of the immense Basilica of the century of life, which only remains an astonishing platform of 1 500 m ². Extending to the foot of Mount Hermon (2 814 m) on its southern slope, the Golan region benefits from the melting of the snow that spans the mount until May. This volcanic plateau, at 1 000 m altitude, was known once for the fertility of its land.Most of the plateau, which was once down to Lake Tiberias, has been in Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967. About 15 000 Syrian, mostly Druze, have lived in the Israeli part of the Golan since 1967.Syria recovered a thin portion of the Golan after the negotiations following the 1973 war. This portion is still supervised by the United Nations. At the time of its withdrawal from Quneitra, the main city of the Golan, the Israeli army destroyed the bulldozer and dynamite with all that remained after looting scenes that caused still intense emotions among the Syrians. To go to this city, take the direction Quneitra from the exit of Damascus or return to the main road if you have made a hook by Qatana.