leaving Turkey to the amazing Syria !
I started a 6 months journey in march 2003, although it was never really the intention... I`d just lost my job so I thought I would take a trip to Budapest to check out my future university....and then after doing that I figured that since I don`t really have anything to go back to I might as well visit the neighbouring country.....and that spirit kept meg going through 20 countries over 6 months :)
Antakia was the last city I visited in turkey. Only reason to visit that place is if you need to find a bus out of that place because it was just another boring dead-end turkish mid-size city...
I was nervous on the bus towards the Syrian border...the bus was in a pityful state...and I felt a bit alone as the only non-syrian,non-arabic person.I did`nt know anything about Syria before going there, I just figured that it was a very bad move as there would probably be lots of criminals shooting their Kalashnikovs in the air whilst making strange yodelling sounds.
On the border there were hundreds of people,and buses, queing everywhere , and I was the only foreigner there. I had made sure that my visa was good before going (a very cool visa with lots of stamps with arabic writing that looks very exotic in my otherwise boring passport)
I got a lot of attention, which was uncomfortable as I was`nt very used to it...and I think also that all the people in the bus hated me as the bus had to wait 30 minutes while I was questioned by the customs...(all the other people went through customs in 2 minutes)
Getting of the bus in Aleppo I felt like a big blazing neon sign " I`m a rich and stupid white person ,please try to sell me some crappy accomodation in your house" .
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