West Georgia: Kutaisi, Batumi, Vardzia

I visited Georgia in September 2009, traveling solo by marshrutka, bus ...

Updated: Nov 27, 2009 10:46am PST

Georgia: Tbilisi

Updated: Nov 30, 2009 5:24pm PST

East Georgia: Ananuri, Mtskheta, Telavi

Updated: Nov 30, 2009 3:37pm PST

North Armenia: Vanadzor, Dilijan

I took a marshrutka south from Tbilisi in Georgia to Vanadzor in north ...

Updated: Dec 04, 2009 2:08pm PST

Armenia: Yerevan area

Updated: Dec 12, 2009 7:48am PST

Nagorno-Karabakh and West Armenia

Updated: Dec 12, 2009 2:23pm PST

Syria: Aleppo, Hama

I flew from Yerevan to Aleppo, and traveled by train from Aleppo to Ha ...

Updated: Dec 19, 2009 1:46pm PST

Syria: Romans, Christians and Crusaders

Updated: Dec 24, 2009 9:48am PST

Syria: Damascus

I stopped twice in Damascus, on the way to Beirut, and then on the way ...

Updated: Dec 25, 2009 12:47pm PST

Lebanon

I spent too-short a time in Lebanon, side-tripping to Beirut from Dama ...

Updated: Jan 10, 2010 3:20pm PST

North Jordan: Amman, Madaba

I took a shared (or service) taxi from Syria to Jordan at the end of O ...

Updated: Jan 22, 2010 3:39pm PST

Petra

I spent three nights and two full days at Petra, and could easily have ...

Updated: Jan 28, 2010 11:20am PST

Jordan: Miscellany

Updated: Jan 22, 2010 3:41pm PST