The Allgäu Orient Rallye: A great adventure for enthusiastic teams and their (almost) veteran cars. From the South of Germany, across the Balkans, through Turkey and Syria to Jordan - the teams make their way off the beaten track. On Mai 2nd, 2009, the Allgäu-Orient Rallye starts for the forth time, combining fun and fundraising for a charitable cause.

As team "Amman Express", Anton, Bernhard, Friedrich, Hubertus, Marcus, and Till, accept the challenge. They report in this blog exclusively for their sponsor QuestNet.

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9 May 2009

Day 7: From Göreme to Aleppo

Today we drove from Cappadocia towards Syria. The landscape is just beautiful, with snow-covered mountain tops everywhere. Around 17:30 we arrived at the border between Turky and Syria in Bab al Hava. Customs formalities took us about 3.5 hours - rather tiresome, but shorter than expected, actually. We learned that we are the 2nd of all teams to enter Syria! Quite proud of ourselves we are for this achievement.









In Aleppo, about 60 km into the country, we stopped for the night. The bustling oriental city has about 1.7 mio. inhabitants and is thus even bigger than Damaskus. Aleppo is considered one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, and the old city of Aleppo is listed as World Heritage site according to the UN standards - after Göreme National Park already the second World Heritage site we visited on our tour.
Posted by JB at 09:38

1 comment:

  1. life10 May 2009 at 08:57

    Hi, i am Quest Net Networker from malaysia, Congratulation!!!!
    i wish you all the best and achieve miracle result.
    I am proud of what u all done, i saw the car and your spirits, Great Man !
    Believe and thanks the car, it will bring you to the finish line with good condition along the way.
    Another 4days to go, Cheers !
    Have a Great Journey and Wonderful time,
    Lastly, Life is Daring Adventure or Nothing at All.i love you all and take care.

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