The bus station is not just 2km out of town. Fortunately for us India had the good sense to actually hail a taxi which took us a good 5km out of town to the station whereupon we purchased tickets to Deir Az-Zur. The journey was fairly unremarkable, although the conductor of the bus, a young guy of bedouin descent called mahmoud decided to take a liking to us, particularly me as I was the one most easily distracted from my struggle of reading a simplified versio...

Harasta terminal I must admit is not my favourite place in the world, but once again I was to find myself there on the start of our most recent break. Destination: Palmyra, and expectations were high after what we heard people and guide books say about it. We arrived and were instantly rinsed by the taxi driver who took us into town. "how much?" "25…each." This is bearing in mind it should have been 25 in total and there were four of us. W...

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