Wandering Earl » Syria

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Last night I was sitting here in my room in Bucharest at 12.45am. I was exhausted from not being able to sleep the night before due to a severe headache. But despite the exhaustion, despite the h...

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This is a new idea that came to me while flying from Syria to Thailand a few months ago upon completing my recent set of rewarding Middle East travels. Given that I've been spending so much time ...

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As I stumbled onto the bus, all I could think about was finding my seat and passing out. I had reached that point of exhaustion where my brain was able to do little more than perform it's most ba...

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Damascus, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on the planet. So much to see, so much to explore, yet I did very little during my first couple of days in Damascus. Sure, I wandered arou...

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Now that I've been here for just under a month, I have a decent grasp on how much it costs to travel in Syria. And to be honest, this is a country that offers a quality adventure no matter how mu...

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Let's take a tour together, a tour of Aleppo, this city in northern Syria that proved to be a most difficult place to leave. The goal of this tour is to help any of you who might be traveling to ...

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After the phrase “Welcome to Syria”, the second most common phrase that I've heard from Syrians is, surprisingly... “I love America.” I've been told this on a daily basis over here. In fa...

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A few days ago, I took a tour. Actually, it wasn't really a tour. Four other travelers and I split the cost of a minivan and driver to take us to what we were told were three of the most impressi...

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There have been a few brilliantly memorable times in my life when I've been walking down some random street in some random town of some random country and suddenly I find that there's a little ex...

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