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Very early in the morning it is time to get up and get ready to leave for Syria. It'll be a long day of driving and boarder crossing hence an early start is needed :( I don't feel really well rested after a maximum of two hours of sleep. But I don't have any signs of a hangover - when I try to make it to my feet's an walk to the bathroom I soon realize why I'm still drunk from the night before. I looked like it would be a very long day.   But being drunk turned out to be an ...

Travelling from Cairo to Venice, through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.

Middle East - FOOD here some photo i took by my camera in last 2 years all those photo arabic country food,  I hope all like it :D and you ll be hungry now i am sure after you see my photo ;) hehe   ...   by the way almost photos for food made in home ;)  if you want know how made it you can ask me and i can tell you!

trip around some of the lesser-visited countries in the world. (photos only, for now). Syria - Lebanon - Jordan

I began my journey to Kurdistan Iraq from Damascus, Syria where I spent three days checking out this very old city.

I’m taking a taxi from Amman to Damascus with the British engineer.  The rest of our little group of six have parted ways.  About 300 m from the border, the driver asks us to get out of the car.  He pops off the seat back revealing a hidden compartment into which he stuffs cartons of cigarettes to smuggle across the border.  He looks at me and touches his finger to his lips.  We get back in and cross the border without incident - no wonder the fare was so cheap...

El Sol se colaba por las ventanas de la terraza cubierta del Spring Flower Hostel, calentando lo suficiente para activar nuestras neuronas y levantarnos de nuestros cutrecolchones. Ali apareció sonriente recién duchada y me mostró una foto del grupo durmiendo plácidamente. Pedimos que nos prepararan el desayuno sin apenas movernos del sitio, ya que las mesas de la cafetería están también en la terraza, y nos sentamos a esperar el repetitivo desayuno sirio consistente en pan de chicle c...

Damascus the capital city for syria and called in arabic (dimashq) and this aria called before 1000's years( AL sham ), main place u must see ( Umayyad Mosque ) ure u going see there market very old called ( souk AL hamedia ) , by the way big part from city buldings on the mountin called ( kasuon ) u can go up there and watch at city and try see at night so nice , nice place go to museums . I will try up loud over than 100 photo soon about the city ...

Location:situated in the middle Syria southern Aleppo 141KM northern Damascus 209KM connected with others cities by international traffic-net or highways and railways. History: Hama is one of the most ancient inhabited areas in Middle East it dates back to very ancient ages. the archaeological missions assure that the stone age man lived in the different parts of the Orontes basin in left tools, traces and houses dating back to the pre-historic ages. it is the ancient Hamat which was inhabit...

Today is Kim's birthday.  And for his birthday I organised a day-trip from Hama was to Krak de Chevaliers (Qala'at al Hosn) described by some as the most impressive medieval castle in the world. Now, this wasn't just another crusader castle ... this is THE one that we came to Syria for ... especially. It was mega huge, and pretty intact considering the little restoration and its age (around 800 years). Gotta to see the place to believe its size. Being a public holiday, the crowd w...

Damascus and onwards

Location:Situated in the midst of other city center Syria north Damascus 160KM and considered as the 3rd important city in Syria the bigger city by the cover. It is considered as an important industrial and agricultural center, The great oil refinery in it increases its importance. An important traffic net connects it with the other cities and means of transportation Easley available. the Orontes crosses Homs creating life western side while the eastern side is almost a desert, but its steppe...

One day trip to Damaskus and back to Slovakia :-)

The meeting was great! meet with 2 from travbuddy and 1 new friend and 1 my old friend all in 1 week!  We did travel around Damascus City together Me(Syria) and Luigi(Italy) and we did meet with Ahmed(Egypt) about a hour when he back Damascus City because he was in another city at sea side, between those days I did meet with Ed(UK) and he join us 1 day only and I meet with my old university friend Omar(Iraq) after he call me surprising me he is in syria :D . realy i enjoyed :)&nbs...

Please note that links to external sites were correct when this blog was written.  However, they may no longer be valid.  From Beirut we crossed into Syria where we left Kim's parents for a couple of days.  On their own they enjoyed Palmyra (the most spread out Greek / Roman ruins we've seen) and Crac des Chevaliers (the most intact large Crusader castle from the 1100s where school children can roam freely and fall off the edges). While they were doing that, we spent some ti...