Well, following close on the heels of the whistle stop tour of Turkey, came the even faster tour of Syria!
We arrived in Aleppo after 4 hours at the border crossing in stupid heat. Only to find the hotel (and the whole city) was experiencing intermittant power cuts due to the heat and the over use of air conditioners. Having a shower then jumping out and immediately starting to sweat is not much fun.

Had a walking tour of the city the next day, then enjoyed a candle light dinner (not intentional - restaurant had no power...god knows where they cooked the food!) before getting an early night for the drive to Crac de Chevalier.
Here we had a look around the castle which has been there since 1061 (or something like that) was an outpost for the crusaders and even Richard the Lion Heart has stayed there. Rather cool! Unfortunately the accommodation wasn't so great, somehow the hotel had managed to bump our booking, so we all slept on the roof of the hotel. Again, unfortunately, that was of course the only night it decided to rain! So we were up at 4:30 and in the bus heading to Palmyra. Mammoth drive there, awesome to see though. Absolutely huge ruined city from the 1st Century, cool to see. It was only a quick stop though, cos then we drove on to Damascus. Where I am now. We're staying in a camp site in the middle of an industrial area... although surprisingly you wouldn't know it. They've fenced it off and there's really nice lush green grass. Cos it was so nice we all decided to camp without tents - a bit silly for me esp when there's mossies around. Woke up this morning with two nice big bites on my face! Looking good!

So had a chilled out day today in town - not a huge amount to see though, as it's Friday and apparently Friday is the Muslim holy day - so nothing was open!

Have to get up early tomorrow (5am in the truck) for another mammoth drive to get to Wadi Musa in Jordan. Apparently we do stop to swim in the Dead Sea...which will def be a highlight!

So it's been very interesting to see all the ruins, but not much else to do... I'm feeling a little blah from no exercise and sitting in a truck for 14 hours every second day isn't exactly the most fun. But I'm seeing some amazing places and have had some fun experiences. Try push starting a massive old army truck...

Not sure when I'll be able to get to the internet again - maybe Egypt? Anyway, I'll keep updating this. Hope everyone's all good. Lx