"Sitting in a second floor "Internet Cafe" right next to a chain smoking man....aaaargh! Finding I'm loving some good sheesha (flavored water pipe)...but still hating cigs! One ..."
"Jane, Fadi and I join up with Yoshi, a quiet but happy Japanese guy who we had first met in Petra. The four of us decide to share a taxi up to Damascus, supposedly the best w ..."
A travel blog entry from Damascus by
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"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, th ..."
A travel blog entry from Aleppo by
djchurch
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"Syria, at last! Well after almost 7 weeks in Turkey we were definitely ready for a change of scenery (and menu). So with our trusty visa in hand we made our way to the border cross ..."
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"So, we arrived in Syria yesterday morning and luckily they have internet access here at our hostel in Syrias second city of Aleppo. We are only 45kms over the border into Syria fro ..."
"Crossing over from Turkey to Syria made us a little nervous because we weren't sure what to expect. After all, this is one of the countries that has been added to George W's infamo ..."
A travel blog entry from Damascus by
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"After days of anxiety about whether or not I would be able to get my Syrian visa at the border from Jordan, having heard endless contradictory reports about the possibility of doin ..."
"Already we are becoming slack at sending out the e-mails... doh! I'll now try to recap the last week of our trip. So... we spent 3 days in Dahab, a wicked wee place. The days were ..."
A travel blog entry from Aleppo by
antandrel
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"Well, we're in luck! Syria (at least Aleppo) is technologically with the times! (The whole computer thing is relatively new here.) Even an English keyboard! Yahoo! We arrived at th ..."
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