Great Syria and surroundings - Middle East Pics Thread 2. Starting with Lebanon

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Golan Heights, UN - administered part. Please note two things: the mountain in a sea of fog far away
and mine field next to the road. Golan is one great mine field.

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a gate where "Scorpion" march started. The nicest views were right behind it, but I was afraid to take pics. It is actually forbidden. But when I've seen soldiers taking them, I started doing so as well.

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me with a dumb face expression, a soldier and a friend.

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Golan is very green, a sharp difference in comparison to barren land around Damascus

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me and remains of some military stuff

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with my stallion I am patrolling Israeli occupational boarder to fight off any agression...

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Many butterflies and other insects

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behind this line Mordor lays..

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wadi (a valley) around. Oneday Syrian soldiers will march here in direction of Jerusalem

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a friend of mine and a dog

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My co-locator is about to leave Syria and I want to cry. Especially that I will follow his steps in 2 days' time .
I am very sad. A very interesting chapter of my life is definitely ending.

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ministry of education or whatever, Damascus, Syria

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Umayyads' square, Damascus, Syria: a monument of the martyrs I believe, and the very nice threatre in the background

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Umayyads' square, Hafiz al-Asad's library. According to idiotic new laws, You can not enter it with shorts nor take camera inside.

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Tishreen (tishrin) park next to Umayyads' square; Qasyun mountain in the background, and Sheraton on the right