The French tour operator Clio offers travel enthusiasts willing a very adventurous trip. For less than 3,000 euro organizes a ten-day cultuurreis to war-torn Syria. By car, with private guide, visit the travel enthusiasts willing to under the capital Damascus and the by IS-frenzy destroyed, Palmyra. The French ministry of Foreign affairs recommends the trip strictly. “Nothing to worry about”, claims to Clio.
“Dive as the first and again in this history” is the promotional text, which the Clio in no time twenty adventurers managed to tie for the controversial trip. Eight years of war, the great wounds left in the country, which also in our country continue to have a negative travel advice. But there let the culture do so by stopping. the
“It was immediately a success,” says director Jean-Pierre Respaut against the French news agency AFP. The negative position of the ministry he slides aside. “The situation is currently much more stable. In large parts of the country is quiet, now the regime the largest part of his territory conquered.” Respaut expected the trip this year a further five times to be able to offer.
