21th May 2008

After the Syrian check point I arrived in country, the staffs at the department were not friendly and as I had heard before they mostly asked for money from the strangers, it happened for me as well and they asked for (baksheesh) that was shame to see a police man ask for a little money from tourist, if fact I paid nothing but I didn’t expected this act of them by my arrival, but anyway.
I passed the border successfully and cycled to the first big city which was away about 50 kms from there, the road was really empty of any car for a while and I was so happy about this, on the way I found some ruins and I took some photos, then I continued my journey to the Aleppo city (Halab) it’s the second biggest city in Syria after the capital Damascus.

On the way I found many Ruins which the governments really don’t pay attention to them, and people were using them as a store to keep their stuffs in as they built their house around the ruins from long time ago, all the road was hilly and all the time I had to go up and down, it was nice but it was boring when you see the both sides of the road are very messy (full of empty bottle of different kinds of beverage) and other messy stuffs, anyway
I arrived in Aleppo town at 7:00 pm and it was a good scenery to see this big city at the entrance as the big and nice Aleppo citadel was located in the middle of town on a big hill.

I asked for the nearest internet caf