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Aleppo at last!

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April 12th 2010
Driving carefully, getting used to the Syrian traffic (defies all description...), I enterred Aleppo. The signs were pretty good and directed me to the center of town. Finding the Baron Hotel was a bit of a quest, but all in all not bad. I checked in, parked my motorcycle in the parking lot and got my luggage off. A small Syrian guy insisted he carry my bags and two panniers to my room on the 3rd ... read more

Middle East » Syria » North » Aleppo

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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