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Originally posted by fireboomer:
We made our mind up and wonna ride from Belgium to Jordan and back. Timing is May - June this year.

Al together this is the plan:

* race from Patras to Athens Greece and take a night ferry to Rhodos or Cyprus
* ferry to turkey

For the rest:
* Syria no carnet needed
* Jordan, not clear: carnet or no carnet???

Don't trust in the ferry Rhodos-Marmaris. We tried it two times, in summer 2001 and summer 2002, and, notwithstanding it was listed in the official schedule, it didn't exist (and it was september, still a touristic seasons...). So, both the times we ended up with the ferry Bodrum-Kos. If you have a tight schedule, might be better to consider a ferry Piraus-Kos, instaed the one Piraus-Rhodos and then wasting a day there. On the other hand, I doubt there are reliable connection Cyprus-Turkey, not to mention the difficulties to cross from the Greeck part of the island (where the ferry from Piraeus arrives) to the Turkish part (from where the ferry might leave to Turkey).

About the carnet, we used it both in Jordan (2002) and Syria (2001 and 2002), but my feeling is that it much easier to get into Jordan without it than in Syria. In any case, if you have it, you save time and money. In fact, if you don't have it, the syrian ask for you to pay an extra insurance (I don't remember how was in Jordan, but in general they were much more easy going than the syrians).

Well,

We booked the ferry's after informing with these people:
http://www.paleologos.gr/contact.asp

They have quite a few companies they represent. So gives you a choice in time and price.

I also got a mail from a ferry company from rhodos to marmaris. Looks we can go ahead and book it. They sail daily it says in the mail.

For Jordan no carnet is needed if yous stay no longer then 2 weeks (cfr Jordan emabassy in Belgium).
Syria also no carnet needed (cfr Syrian embassy in Belgium).

Tommorow we are supposed to get our visa for Syria, then on to the Jordan embassy.

Pieter.

Update: got the visa for Syria today without any trouble.

[This message has been edited by fireboomer (edited 14 March 2005).]

Got our visa for Syria in a week and that for Jordan in 2 days.
Both are multiple.

Still not clear what the paperwork for Jordan involves. CPD seems not necessary, but nobody wants to say for sure.
Syria is ok.

Working on the route. Gonna try to take some 'smaller' roads / tracks.
Are Syria and Jordan comparable to Marocco concerning driving conditions?