A few kilometres after escaping the early morning traffic of Beirut, the road began climbing steeply into the mountain range that divides Lebanon from Syria… Considering my first impressions of this country, I found it ironic that these mountains are known as the Anti-Lebanon Mountains…!! Anti Lebanon indeed…!! Even the mountains don’t like […]
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December 11th, 2010 | Asia The first few kilometres from the Homs turnoff took us through a range of low hills, the road running alongside a railway line… I was beginning to think that I had ridden in the worst of the wind, and that the run into Homs would be quick and easy… The flat and fairly […] December 10th, 2010 | Asia At breakfast the following morning, Stefan and I were joined by Mathias and Gabriel, who had scared the hell out of the Swiss couple the previous evening, when they had arrived in their Landrover… “They thought we were the police coming to evict them from their camping spot…!!” Gabriel […] December 9th, 2010 | Asia I rode through the streets of Palmyra expecting to come across Stefan at one point or another, but saw neither hide nor hair of him… I tore up the steep and winding road up to the Citadel, believing that he had actually beaten us up there, and on a bicycle to boot…!! December 9th, 2010 | Asia The many plates that constitute a Syrian breakfast… The best item on the table can be found in the top left hand corner… A mug of Nescafe's finest…!! One morning (I forget which one…!!) after returning from another walk through the ruins, I saw a windswept traveler sitting on the patio of my […] December 8th, 2010 | Asia In the centre of all the ruins, is the only site which you have to pay to get into, but the R12.00 entrance fee is worth every cent…!!
The magnificent facade of the stage, seen from the top row of the theatre… The Theatre of Palmyra was only […] |
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