Relics, ruins and dusty roads. Quadbikes around Cappadocia. Picnics in London. I haven’t had time to say as much as I would like, but I’m getting there. I’m working on a couple of important projects at the moment out of London and when I’m done there should be a few interesting things to announce, including some substantial changes to this very site, and some publications.
From top: all roads point to Iraq (and Tartus and Homs) from just outside Palmyra, Syria; I take the quadbike out for a spin around Cappadocia, Turkey; BYOB picnics in London.
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You are, quite literally, living out my dream of traveling the world. I’m very glad I stumbled upon your blog. Keep writing :)
Cheers from India/Singapore!
Love you love you love you!
Where are you now? I might be heading back to Southeat Asia soon.
i always wonder how you could enter Syria, I once travelled to that country but I couldn’t enter it; I had no visum, but the travel agent in my place informed me that I could buy visa in Damascus, but hell no….they didn’t let me buy it there
@vanez, you need to obtain a syrian visa from the embassy from your home country. so if the netherlands (i’m assuming that’s where you are from) has an embassy, you got to get the visa there. otherwise you won’t be issued one at the border. the only place foreigners can get a visa for syria outside their home countries is in istanbul, from which you can take the bus, train or plane to syria but that’s a process that takes about a week. only citizens of countries that don’t have an embassy, such as singapore (whose passport i hold), will be issued a visa at the border. it’s been said that you can risk it, even if you don’t meet the requirements, but americans will almost always have to wait up to a couple of hours for theirs (i got mine in 2 minutes).
really a nice place there
thanks for the reply. I indeed got info from a steward in istanbul about the visa, but i wished i could buy it at the airport, i had to go to syrian embassy which i didn't know where it is. I ended up getting back to NL. Not a good trip! And it was unfair, when i was at the airport in damascus I stood beside an english guy, he also had no visa but he could get visa, but i couldn't (at that time i still had indonesian passport), i heard that syria made it difficult for indonesian to enter: couldn't buy visa at the airport.