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The road to Damascus (I just wanted to write that somewhere)

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November 14th 2008
It's been a bit of a detour filled journey on the road to Damascus but I'm finally here. The trip to Hama from Beirut looked so easy when I read about it in the guidebook, go to bus station get on bus after a border crossing and a few too many hours in a bus arrive at Hama for a couple of days. Well that was the plan anyway, the initial part of the plan worked like a dream. I found the honest B ... read more

Middle East » Syria » South » Damascus

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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