Visitors get a taste of the tropics in Syria’s coastal forest

TARTUS: A privately developed tropical forest on Syria’s Mediterranean coast is attracting growing numbers of visitors, offering an unusual landscape of tropical fruit trees and dense greenery rarely associated with the country. Located in the village of Blata al-Gharbiya, 3 km north of Tartus province, the site began as a small agricultural project on a single donum, or about 1,000 square meters. Over time, it expanded into a miniature tropical forest featuring species such as papaya, avocado, lychee, dragon fruit and tropical banana.

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