Denmark, March 15th 1996.


In November '95 I came back from a month of travelling in Rome, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

Here's my diary...

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Travelogue: Rome, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan

Introduction

My trip lasted from October 4th until November 7th 1995. The route was: Rome - Lebanon - Syria - Jordan. I travelled together with my friend, Kasper.

Before departing, I tried to find some travelling information about the Middle East on the Internet, however there was close to nothing. This is why I've decided to put this diary on the Net. As there is already plenty of travelling information about Rome, the notes on Rome are not as comprehensive as the notes on the Middle East.

The diary contains prices, addresses and practical tips. The traveller may use this diary as a supplement to the relevant guide books. In Rome we used the Let's Go guide to Rome (1995 edition). In Lebanon we used Lonely Planet's "The Middle East - on a shoestring" (1994 edition). In Syria and Jordan we used Lonely Planet's "Jordan & Syria - a travel survival kit" (1993 edition).

This travelogue is primarily aimed at people travelling on a low budget.

A few facts are only of interest to Danish citizens. Some personal names in the text may be aliases for personal reasons.

The listed exchange rates are from October/November 1995.

Throughout the document there are references to scanned images, e.g. a business card from a hotel - having the advantage of containing the name and address in Arabic. You may print the images and show them to people in the street, taxi drivers, etc.

You may download the entire diary including images (around 800kb) and read it off-line using your Web browser.

Thanks to my friend, Catherine, for correcting a bunch of misspellings!

I hope that the information contained on these pages will be of assistance to someone.

Comments and questions to Troels Arvin.

Long-and-annoying-disclaimer: Although I have tried to make the information as accurate as possible, I accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by any person using the information contained in this travelogue.

NoC©pyright: Anybody may use and process this information in any way they want. All the HTML pages are signed with my PGP signature (read the *.htm files with a simple text editor); this way you are able to distinguish my original work from altered copies. I have collected signatures for the graphics files in a file which you may download now. To verify the signatures you need my public key. For more information on PGP and electronic signatures, search Yahoo's PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) pages.

This travelogue originates from http://www.mdb.ku.dk/tarvin/diary/. I hope that I don't have to update this travelogue; still, you may want to visit the origin URL to get the most 'up-to-date' version if you are not already there...

This is my first HTML project. The pages were produced using various tools for OS/2 and OS/2's WebExplorer 1.03 was used to verify the results. If I have made mistakes which cause problems reading this using other Web-browsers, please tell me so that I will not make the mistakes again in another HTML project.

Abbreviations

$ = US dollars
DKR = Danish Kroner
= Italian Lira
= Lebanese Lira
= Syrian Lira
JD = Jordanian Dinars

Let's start the trip, Rome here we come...


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