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  • Entering Civilization Stepping off the coach to Damascus, fighting through the rediculous taxi touts, we got to the flat of a friend of mine, Benjy, currently studying Arabic and Persian in Damascus and very familiar with the city. He had kindly put Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 26, 2009
  • Back After breaking down in the desert, we eventually got to Palmyra, which has been a tourist destination for 200 years. Tourism is the only industry there and needless to say were immedeately shafted. Firstly, a rediculously expensive taxi (there were Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 25, 2009
  • Further Down the Hospitality Rabbit Hole Having accepted Amir's invitation, we headed to the village of Bokros further south along the Euphrates from the city of Dier Ez-Zor. Eventually after a series of rather disastrous minibus rides, including one where the window exploded for no reason, Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 25, 2009
  • Syrian Pharmacists Speak Russian So, I left off last time with us in the middle of the desert, sun setting, arms out into the air in a prayer to the many gods this region has had over the millennia. Our prayers were swiftly answered Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 24, 2009
  • Heading East From Homs we decided to head into the desert, into the wilds of Eastern Syria, away from civilization, away from the crowds. So we got a minibus to an unknown town eastwards, accompanied by looks that said 'why the hell Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 23, 2009
  • Muslim Kids Child labour laws are a probably a funny joke here. The cities are full of little kids running around selling all kinds of wares, from bread to chewing gum, and the nargileh cafes are garrisoned by armies of shoe shine Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 23, 2009
  • Syria So Far Syria has been probably the dirtiest and dustiest place on the trip so far (and easily the hottest), with most of the places that we've stayed at having some nasty odor or other. But, on the bright side, we've also Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 17, 2009
  • Entering the Arab World After a rather hectic week and 6 day 'detour' (3 days of solid travel from Eastern Turkey to Sakhalin in Far Eastern Russia and back, over 30 hours on a plane etc.), I returned to Gaziantep and miraculously found Chuck Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Aug 13, 2009
  • 骆驼肉+ 烤鸡肉串 领队说每次在叙利亚，每个人都必须尝试的是骆驼肉。还好全团都是肉食动物，所以有肉皆欢! 那天刚好是轮到Chris小组做饭。下午三五个人就跟着领队去了集市。等他们回来的时候，就看见同行的一个奥拉利亚人像抽经似地乱蹦，逢人就打来他的照相机炫耀一阵。凑过去一看，原来是肉案上挂了一个骆驼的头！哈哈，无知的小孩。估计到了中国看见农贸市场里的猪头，也得蹦个半天吧。 把骆驼肉结成大排大小，让他们在腌料里躺一个下午。生上火，把肉放上烤板，烤个5，6分钟，翻一面，再过5，6分钟，就可以开吃了。（Chris就是翻 Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 31, 2009
  • Damascus - 叙利亚的首都 其实就城市发展来说，Damascus似乎有些寒碜。马路很挤，楼房很矮，交通糟的不可形容。 但是城市中间的清真寺大教堂，却是我们所见最叹为观止的！ 进去前先换衣服。女生穿长袍，遮住头发和身体的所有部位。男生如果路小腿的得穿上长袍！看我们的装扮！ 男生们显得那么的娇柔！（吐！） 我站在大理石地板的寺庙的露天广场。阳光照射下，地面有点烫。但是却一尘不染。金色的 Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 28, 2009
  • 沙漠之国 - Palmyra 我们见证了夕阳和朝阳下的沙漠之国。伫立在沙漠中的雄伟的柱子不时地提醒我们，这里曾经一度繁荣辉煌过。就像一个绝色的美人，就算容颜去了，在皱纹下还隐藏着曾经的沉鱼落雁！ 落日，我们就在古城旁边露营。 [img=http://photos.tr Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 27, 2009
  • 古堡，又见古堡 - Crac De Chevarlier 这次是Crac De Chevarlier! 山洞停上透下一缕光 姐姐抱着妹妹走上山坡 Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 25, 2009
  • Aleppo Citadel - Aleppo 的古城堡 我们两人都对城堡，教堂，博物馆没有什么兴趣。但是既然到了，如果不进去又说不过去，总算到此一游过。所以还是雁过留声吧！（顺便说一句，拿isic卡买门票真是便宜，大概就人民币1块钱） 进门的桥！就像北京的长城，天安门，这个应该是叙利亚的标志物吧，被印在硬币上！ [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/211584/20090729_08 Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 25, 2009
  • 长裙飘飘的男生 刚入境不久，导游告诉我们这条是罗马大道。chris还算正常。 但是却娱乐了当地的孩子们一把。 入乡随俗，住了一个晚上之后，chris也秉承了当地男人的衣着习惯，穿起了长袍。 [img=http://photos.travellerspoin Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 30, 2009
  • 叙利亚 - 天使之国 正当我们开始对土耳其的旅游小镇开始感觉疲乏的时候（我们实在感冒满是欧洲游人的土耳其的海滨旅游城市），大黄终于要开始向叙利亚进发了。 同行的团友们在海关大买伏特加和啤酒，因为穆斯林的习俗是不提倡饮酒的，所以我们只能自给自足。领队提醒我们说，叙利亚是一个相对保守的国家，所以我们穿着得相对保守。女生们收拾起了吊带和超短裙（裤），换上了相对“体面”的服装。因为以色列从叙利亚和约旦“强抢”了很多的土地，所以这个国家的外交政策非常的强硬。所有游人，只要护照上有以色列的签证就不得入境。正应为这个规定，入境处会仔细 Posted by suevasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 30, 2009
  • Damascus Our impression of Damascus may be a bit jaded by the heat and circumstance. We stayed at a campsite 4km out of town for 3 nights. The campsite was torn down, so we stayed in a much less fancy campsite Posted by chrisvasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 29, 2009
  • Citadel in Aleppo and Crac de Chevaliers The citadel in Aleppo is amazing, a huge fortress that would be close to unattackable (in fact it was never breached, just surrendered after the rest of the city fell). [img=http://pho Posted by chrisvasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 25, 2009
  • Palmyra ruins The ruins of Palmyra were awesome, it was one of the earlier capitals of one of the empires about 2000 years ago (Byzantine maybe...). However we had already been to a bunch of ruins, so we only had the Posted by chrisvasil in Overland for 8 Months | Jul 26, 2009
  • Crac des Chevaliers - Syria While in Syria, four of us from the hostel went to see Crac des Chevaliers, the most famous and intact of the crusader castles. TE Lawrence (who, as an undergrad, studied medieval military architecture) described Crac des Chevaliers as "undoubtedly Posted by jenofear in Jen's Blog | Apr 6, 2009
  • Trip to Damascus - Part 2 Old City Damascus is just excellent. Little mazes of streets with sweets and crafty shops. Secret brightly lit courtyards, often hidden behind nondescript doors: Uh, descript doors: Posted by jenofear in Jen's Blog | Apr 2, 2009
  • Trip to Damascus - Part 1 I recently got back from a quick trip up to Syria and Lebanon. I went with Jon, a college student from South Carolina who is on the tail-end of a year long trip to all the non western places Posted by jenofear in Jen's Blog | Apr 2, 2009
  • Immodium in the chaos of Allepo the boys are enjoying their birthday wish and are sitting nearby at separate computers working together to haul out some treasures from an electronic battlefield within a Runescape world. Victor has taken an Immodium to plug up the gastro that Posted by Estebaan in Reis van de Nautilidae | Oct 7, 2008
  • DEAR TRAVELAR...hope you happy stay that's the greeting that sits on a large plastic sign high on the wall in the passport control office on the Syrian Border 40km outside of Allepo. I had the misfortune to have to use the grim keyhole toilet located Posted by Estebaan in Reis van de Nautilidae | Oct 5, 2008
  • SIRIA ENTRAMOS A SIRIA ANTES DE HABER IDO A DUBAI E IRAN PERO POR UNA U OTRA RAZON NO HABIAMOS PODIDO ESCRIBIR ACERCA DE ESTE PAIS! QUE POR CIERTO NOS SORPRENDIO EN TODOS SENTIDOS! LIMPIO MUY DESARROLLADO Y GENTE SUPER AMABLE! PASAMOS UNOS Posted by wanderers in TROTAMUNDOS | May 11, 2008
  • Touring Marqab, Salah Ed-Din, and Apamea I did a day trip to Marqab & Salah Ed-Din, two crusader castles, as well as Apamea. To be honest, I didn't expect much. Ruins start to look the same to me after a while (I'm so low-society)...and Posted by jenofear in Jen's Blog | Mar 27, 2008
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