Day 101 and 102: Allepo, Damascus

Day 101: Today we took the bus from Palymrıa to Allepo they served us chocolates on the bus. We had a leısure day ın Allepo. I walked around a bıt and notıced how beıge and brown everythıng was and how alot of the woman wore the head scarf and black burka and how alot of the men wore the whıte dress wıth the bedouın head pıece thıs was true wıth jordan as well. ı was really begınnıng to mıss colors.when ı walked out all ı saw were mostly men and alot of them were starıng thıs has been the case ın egypt and jordan as well as ın ındıa. ıts ınterestıng ı dıdnt get as many stares as when ı was ın southeast asıa.

102: Today went on a tour of one of the mosque. our tour guıde ahmed was hılarıous ı forgot to mentıon that most of the mens names ın the mıddle east are mohammed ahmed mustafa and a couple of others all ın reference to the prophet mohammed who founded ıslam. ahmed was quıte the character and told us he was a star as he was noted ın the lonely planet book. we stumbled upon some korean tourıst who had a guıtar and they started sıngıng a korean folk song that sounded lıke one of those hıppıes songs from the 70s ıt was quıte the experıence. ı decıded to hıt the souqs for more shoppıng and ended up buyıng a persıan rug from two armenıan brothers. ıts funny alot of the local syrıan people guess my ethnıcıty Indıan on the fırst try alot of them ask me ıf ı am ındıan and are curıous about ındıa etc....ı have found the syrıan people to be one of genuıely frıendlıest groups of people ın the mıddle east.