Palmyra
Apparently there was some significant wind in the preceding days so there was a lot of dust in the air, meaning that our "Palmyra at sunrise" was less than impressive as we eventually saw the sun appear in the middle of the sky as it gradually climbed past the cloud of dust. Somewhere in this jumble of old stone you may have the good luck (as I did) of coming across someone jerking off among the ruins. I guess the columns can be irresistible if you're into that sort of thing, but I gotta imagine there must be more private places than the tourist mecca of Syria for manual release.
Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in ... ... read more 
