cathdoran

A slight Detour

Posted by cathdoran | 29th March 2007

Okay, so it wouldnt be a trip of mine if i didnt end up somewhere else than anticipated.

So i was sitting in the desert of Wadi Rum in Jordan, doing some slight reading as my climbing buddy had already moved on to Amman, and I find out that the border to Lebanon is only an hour and a half away from the Castle Crac Des Chaviliers. Hmmm, me thinks, we have time up our sleaves....."kris"...

And the next thing i know (okay, so i did some more travelling in Jordan and Syria) we are heading to the Lebanonese border! Boy was that an interesting route to take.

We had the kind taxi driver drop us off at the syrian immigration, and then we walked to where about a thousand taxi drivers wanted to drive us to the lebanonese immigration and then through to tripolli for aprox US$22. (we had been told it was only about $2), so stubbon me decides once the police resuce us, to walk to the immigration point and the bother about the taxis after that! So pack on the back, and about

Continued | Middle East

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