28th May 2008
I left the Aleppo after staying about 4 days to Damascus, it was a good city. I met many good people in this city and we talked about different things even the religion and the sect of that (shiee and sonny) totally I enjoyed staying there. I also met many Americans in this city which was really interesting for me, because in all my journey I’ve didn’t met that much American in the other countries like Oman and Turkey,
The distance to the second city was about 150 kms and I wanted to visit one of the famous ruins in dead cities (serjilla) along the way. It was about 10 kms away from the main road on the west part of Syria, I reached to dead cities area very late in the evening and the sunset was so nice at that time,
On the way I met 4 old guys from one of the city around the serjilla, they were Alem ( mullah) and they invited me for a cup of tea at the nature where I was cycling on, and after drinking tea I left and continued my journey when I arrived to the dead cities area I tried to find a place to put the tent and sleeping, while I was searching for it, I’ve seen some tents a bit away from me, then I cycled there, they were nomad people who were lived in the tent I tried to make contact with them with some Arabic words that I knew, then they let me stay with them and set up my tent around, but before I settled they invited me to stay with them for having dinner, I was really interested to see their life in real, that’s why I just said no thx, they said oh please.
Then I found myself between the nomad people in their living tent, they are so kind and hospitable they prepared some simple food for dinner, it was just some fresh peace of bread, fresh cheese which was made both by themselves, and some cucumbers and a kettle of delicious tea, I stared to eat with one of the guy, I really enjoyed to eat all fresh foods, then I set up my tent and slept there, the weather was too windy which I couldn’t sleep well. But for the morning the weather got a bit better, early in the morning I got up, around 5:45 am and I got out of the tent to see where I am, then I saw the serjilla ruins is where I put my tent on, I was really on the serjilla area, then I took my camera and went to take some good photos before sun is rising completely , I stayed there for about 1 hour when I finished my short trip in the ruins, I found that it has an entrance and I had to pay some money for the ticket, but there was no one at that time of the day, so I paid nothing for it, 
Hosein
Salam
tamame aksahaee ke az asar e bastani va jahaye didani gerefteh shodeh kheili ziba hastan… dastet dard nakoneh
omidvaram dar edameye safar hamchenan shahede behtarin aksha basham….
Good luck !
Felfel
Jun 11, 2008 @ 4:38 am
marc
Hi Mohammad,
Great pics as always!
The hospitality of the Bedou is famous.
You were lucky getting invited
Enjoy Syria and don’t froget to visit Jordan if you have the time. The Dead Sea, Petra and the Wadi Rum desert are just marvelous.
Take care!
Marc (whisky)
Jun 11, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Alex
Hello Mohammad;
Nice photos and reading about those places and people. Thank you so much for sending your experiencies.
Enjoy it !!!!!, Alex.
Jun 11, 2008 @ 5:13 am
henk wynia
hallo Mohammad ,
it was nice to hear from you, do you remember me ? I am from Holland , you asked me to buy cycling clothes like a pair of trousers and sent it to you.
Good luck on your journey
Henk Wynia
Jun 11, 2008 @ 5:53 am
hamid foroutan
Hi
it is nice to hear from you.
Great pictures.
I wish you health, wealth and success!
Hamid
Jun 11, 2008 @ 6:49 am
Brandon
Yaa akhee,
Excellent story and excellent pictures! You are quite lucky to get to spend an evening with the Bedouins, that is something I would love to do! Keep on spreading peace, my friend.
Brandon
Jun 11, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
honza
hi mohammad,
good luck on your journey- very nice photo. I
Jun 12, 2008 @ 2:27 am
S
Hello Mohammad,
Very nice pictures ! We received your card of Turkey, thanck you !!
I went to Syria in 2001. It’s a beautiful country with people very nice. I went to Damacus, Alep … Then Jordania.
Bonne chance pour ton voyage a v
Jun 12, 2008 @ 4:47 am
Nikos
Dear Mohammad,
great pics and a great project!
All the best
Niko from Germany
Jun 12, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
ahmad saeian
salam ghahraman khasteh nabashi man akharesh nafahmidam che jori barat payam bezaram
Jun 24, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
ahmad saeian
Salam
ay didanie website shoma, kheili khoshhal shodam ke fahmidam chetori bazam comment beferestam.
khob doste ayiy jenabe hassani khoob bi khabar gozashti-o rafti
ok omidvaram movafagh bashi va daste por bargardi.
movazebe khodet bash va ziyad dor nasho
Ahmad
Jun 25, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Hamed Madooliat
salam
khaste nabashi agha mohammad
az aks haye zibat lezat bordam
movafagh bashi
MAN HAM INJA DAR KENARE HARAME EMAM REZA BARAT DOA MIKONAM
Jun 30, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
kaori
Selam Mohammad,
How are you doing? your website is really great!
I will keep my eyes on it.
Please take care and hope to talk to you soon!
Jul 09, 2008 @ 5:28 am
Eduardo Iniguez
Hello Mohammad.
Great trip!.
I did not know about it until your sister Maria, very friendly and nice and also your family, we met in Shiraz in 2006. She told me about your trip some months ago.
This is the kind of trip I always thought to make one day. I did some but inside Spain. To those countries where you are now I travelled but not by bike. Nice and very interesting countries, nice people. Here in the “western countries” a lot of people do not know those countries and they should. Then their opinion would be much better. It is good that you have this website and lots of people will know a little bit more there.
Take care!.
Jul 13, 2008 @ 9:31 am
amir
ba arze salam.man jahate tolide salname va sarresid ehtiaj be akshaye ziba va dpi bala darm.
az amakene bastani va tabiate iran,
jahate hamkari ba cellphone man:09121837177 sarian be dalile kambude vaght tamas begirid.
ba tashakkor
Oct 14, 2009 @ 5:55 pm