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    • China
      • Shanghaied
      • Approaching the Middle Kingdom
      • Mei ban fa
      • Goodbye Ramadan, Hello China
    • Kyrgyzstan
      • Shashlyk and jailoos
      • From Kochkor to Karakol
      • Foolishness at 3800 meters
      • Long road to China
    • Uzbekistan
      • Do you know Viagra?
      • Taking care of business
    • Turkmenistan
      • Turkmenbashy's vision
      • Fire and brimstone
    • Azerbaijan
      • Flaming gold teeth
      • High pastures of pain
    • Georgia
      • Pork, sweat and beer
      • Cooling off in the Caucasus
    • Turkey
      • Turkey—without the beach
    • Syria
      • Bosra's black ruins
      • Rubble, ruin and rocks
      • Damascus, Aleppo, and the Axis of Evil
    • Jordan
      • Petra rocks
      • A week in Amman
    • Egypt
      • To Cairo
      • The Nile valley almost defeats us
      • Escape to the Sinai
    • Portugal
      • Fattening up in Portugal
    • Italy
      • Heathrow = Hell
      • Italy through glazed eyes
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Italy | Portugal | Egypt | Jordan | Syria | Turkey | Georgia | Azerbaijan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan | Kyrgyzstan | China | Taiwan | Philippines

Damascus | Bosra | Palmyra | Dead Cities | Apamea | Hama | Aleppo | Krak des Chevaliers | Lattakia | Saladin's castle | Al Ma'ara

crusader castle
crusader castle
window
window
view
view
view over the baths
view over the baths
toilets
toilets
pillar
pillar
passage
passage
lizard
lizard
joining in
joining in
Great Hall
Great Hall
exterior wall
exterior wall
engravings on pillar
engravings on pillar
castle viewed from exterior wall
castle viewed from exterior wall
Krak des Chevaliers
Krak des Chevaliers
Khaled plays the oud
Khaled plays the oud
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