i'm planning to travel overland rough to asia via the
middle east in june. i'd like to see most countries there,
including turkey, israel, syria, jordan and iran. is it
really going to be to hot then, or can i manage? i'll be
flying from london to the region and be trying to follow as
straight a line as possible towards india. possibly land in
eilat an travel north through jordan, syria, turkey then
east to iran. if anyone has done this recently and has
advice, ideas or suggestions to pass on, it would be
greatly appreciated. regards
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You're doing way too much, but good luck. If you want to go
to Syria & Iran, avoid Israel or hit it on your way back.
have fun. bob
bob, thanks for your response. you're probably right. i'm
quite flexible with what i'm about to do, have an
australian passport and not a hell of a lot of money. would
be wiser to map out a better route in more of a direct west
to east direction. is there a particular reason for your
advice not to go to israel if i plan to go to syria and
iran? it would be a shame if i couldn't combine israel with
iran. otherwise i'd do this: greece->turkey->syria->turkey->
iran->pakistan... cheers again.
You have one month right? Stick to two countries, three at
the very most! I think it is a shame you can't go to Iran
or Syria (or many many other countries) if you have
evidence of having been to Israel. I personally would not
fund such governments through supporting their economies
through tourism. For mere breadth of sites and sounds, I
personally would follow the traditional
Turkey - Egypt - Israel
Greece - Turkey - Israel
Turkey - Israel - Jordan
Greece - Morocco - Israel
Greece - Turkey - Morocco
Turkey - Morocco - Jordan
or some combo of three countries which do not restrict
certain people from being in the free territory which they
happen to administer for no reason other than hatred and
fear.
My husband and I (both in our early 40s, he's CDN and I'm
US) are taking a Dragoman tour - 7 weeks through Egypt,
Jordan, Syria, Turkey, then fast track through Greece,
Italy, France and finish in the UK. We've not done this
sort of thing before - any advice? (I know this is kind of
general, but because we are so new at this, we thought any
information would be useful...)
Thanks in advance!
Betsy in Vancouver
I don't like travelling with time pressure, take it easy and
enjoy it. Iran's a fantastic place, really welcoming (once
your there) but hard to get a visa, for an Ausie it's much
easier. If you have problems getting a tourist visa go for
a transit visa and get it extended when you're there.
Otherwise go to Magic Carpet Travel and they will sort it
out for a fee, each aplication will take a month though!
Turkey's great, loads of Ausies go down to Gallipoli, but
don't bother with the Med coast, esp in the west it's full
of fat Frogs, Germains and Brits each with their own
resorts. Go out east, it's pretty safe and so beautiful.
bus travel is easy and comfortable (and Cheap). Personaly I
wouldn't go to Israil, they have a ridiculous foriegn policy
concerning the Arabs. Up Palistine! But lets not get all
Political. Best of luck old boy.
John