Hama Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

The main bus companies, Al-Ahliah and Kadmous, have their offices in the town centre on Sharia al-Buhturi, and the buses stop out front.

Al-Ahliah has the greatest number of departures and the times are posted inside the office in English. It has frequent services to Damascus (S£90, 2½ hours), Aleppo (S£80, 2½ hours), Homs (S£30, 45 minutes), Tartus (S£80, two hours), Lattakia (S£100, three hours), Idlib (S£50, one hour) and Raqqa (S£145, five hours). Note that if you’re travelling to Homs, departures by microbus are far more frequent.

For roughly the same prices, Kadmous, facing the river west of the main bridge, has several buses a day to Damascus and more frequent departures to Aleppo, Lattakia, Tartus, and Palmyra (S£85, three hours), which continues on to Deir ez-Zur.

There are no direct services to Qala’at al-Hosn (Krak des Chevaliers) from Hama; you have to change at Homs.

Train

The train station is just under 2km from central Hama. There are around four daily departures on sleek new trains to Damascus (1st/2nd class S£120/60, around two hours) and the same number in the opposite direction to Aleppo (1st/2nd class S£120/60, around two hours).

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