Enter the Orontes River valley to the ruins of the Hellenistic city of Apamea for a walk along the Cardo Maximus, the main street marked by two kilometres of magnificent spired columns. Continue to the Orontes’s banks to the city of Hama, adorned by its enormous wooden ’Norias’ or waterwheels, which have creaked and churned in the Orontes channels since Roman times. Visit the twisting alleyways of Hama`s charming old city, and the famous Al-Nuri Mosque.