A short trek on a camel was enough for me...
May 18th 2008 So I got up at 5:30 so that I could be out the door to the bus station at 6:00, so I could make it for a 40 minute bus ride to the next city, to get to a 7:30am bus to Palmyra. So I arrived in Palmyra at 9:30am and checked out the ruins before it got too hot out.
Like all tourist sites, I was getting harrassed to take tours, motorcycle rides, camel rides, etc... But I had already decided to just
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