TOTAL - 23rd September to 6th December 2007 Itinary : Singapore - Malaysia - Thailand - Laos - Thailand - Nepal - India - Pakistan - Iran - Turkey - Syria - Jordan - Syria Total days since I left : 75 days. Mileage done : 19230 km Total riding time excluding the stops : 279 hours. Number of riding days : 55 days. Average mileage per day when rid...

Wednesday (November 14) Yet another delicious breakfast of fresh mixed juice and rice pudding, and yet another daytrip planned. Todays trip I was really looking forward to, as they took in some of the more spectacular of Syria's offerings. Unfortunately we started off going once again to St Simeon's, which I saw yesterday, the good news was that...

(Danie) After the infamous border crossing and getting to Syria, we go directly to my grandmother's place. My cousin lives in the same building too and after a couple of wrong turns and honks and several close calls with pedestrians, we make it to the house in Aleppo. I haven't visited grandma for more than 20 years now and I am really nervous a...

After planning, praying, and fretting I am finally in the Middle-East. I arrived very early (4am) into Aleppo, Syria from London. It was in doubt whether I would arrive with my luggage. After the tube brokedown I had to snag a cab. The cabbie took me to the wrong terminal and the one I had to get to was a shuttle away. I barely got checked in on...

My first experience in Syria was fitting for how I would describe Syrian people - so welcoming. It was dark, raining and I was lost trying to find my hostel. I asked someone who instead of pointing and describing the way, offered to walk me there. Not for money, not because I was a woman, just because that's the way that Syrians are. Catching up...

Hi Everyone, I'm in Syria now, in the north in a town called Aleppo. The border crossing from Turkey into Syria was crazy, like a scene out of a movie. The Syrian side was fine, the Turkish side was chaos. Cars and trucks were parked everywhere, and everyone was pushing and yelling, thrusting their passports towards one of only two windows with ...

The trip from Antakya to Aleppo was like nothing else we have experienced. After buying our bus ticket to Aleppo the day before, we arrived at the bus station at 11:45 for the 12pm bus. At about 12:30pm we discovered that the 12pm bus wasn't going far and we were informed by the bus company that they no longer were doing our bus trip, but they h...

I last left off indicating I had no clear plan of where I was headed next, which wasn't entirely true, since I knew I was headed to Jordan from Egypt. What was somewhat true is that I didn't have a plan on where I was going once I got to Jordan. My lack of an itinerary was excacerbated by my failure to find a guidebook for the Middle East while ...

I've just received word from home that my grandmother died last night after suffering some time from congestive heart failure. I've been feeling lonely over the past week or so. I just haven't run across very many other travellers who aren't 60 years old. Now I get this news and feel so far away and feel guilty for feeling selfish for this trip....