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Travelled into the mountains on Tuesday to visit the monastery of St Anthony the Great. There is a cave there where the mad were chained to cure them. Brother Michael, a very charismatic monk, told us all about it. The place was like Jenolan caves with a monastery. We then went further up the mountains to visit the tiny remaining cedar forest, preserved thanks to Queen Victoria who had a wall built around it to keep out goats. The mist came down and it was quite eerie.
Wednesday we walked around the old town, medieval, the citadel,Ottoman, and the archaeological site, Neolithic to Persian.