Dead Cities (Serjilla)
Dead Cities (Serjilla)

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 [...]

Aleppo (Halab)
Aleppo (Halab)

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 [...]

Nigde, Adana, Iskenderun and Antakya
Nigde, Adana, Iskenderun and Antakya

May 2008

So then I called to one of the HC members in Nigde for help; at the beginning he didn’t believe that a foreigner is called and he answered all in Turkish, but after a few second that I specified I’m one of the HC members he found out what’s going on, lol [...]

Nivshehir (Cappadocia)-Konya-Nigde
Nivshehir (Cappadocia)-Konya-Nigde

14th May 2008
Dear all friends
Unfortunately I couldn’t get in touch with you and updating my website earlier than this for two reasons; first I’ve been getting lazy for a while at the end of my journey in Turkey and the second one is that I couldn’t find a good internet cafe to update my website [...]

Bala city
Bala city

th May 08

Hi again mates
I’m back again, from Ankara I had decided to cycle on the normal road and being away from the highways ,that’s why I asked my friend.

Izmit to Ankara
Izmit to Ankara

4th may 08

From Izmit I cycled to the city named Bolu which was about 160 km far, I’ve chosen the high way as I heard there is a long tunnel about 28 km long it was really interested for me to see this amazing long tunnel. The road was great but not for cycling because [...]

Istanbul :-)
Istanbul :-)

4th April 08

Today I left the nice and beautiful Istanbul city heading off to the black sea on the north part of Istanbul, the weather was too cold and cloudy as usual, I cycled to reach the big bridge in Istanbul which connect tow Europe and Asian [...]

Sur to Muscat
Sur to Muscat

9 April 08
I am in Istanbul now you got surprise, don’t you?

Yes they tried a lot to extend the visa but it didn’t work as my visa was an express one and I had to leave the country, then I decided to visit Yemen as it was close to Oman [...]

Muscat to Sur
Muscat to Sur

April 08
Let me continue with the resent happenings and postpone the stories about the journey from Ibri to Muscat as I lost most of my text few days ago while I was updating the website, but I will re-write them again in next few days

9th April 08
now I’m in Sur city, [...]

Ibri
Ibri

Off to the coast