Hiya ! 大家好！こんにちは！: Lebanon Syria Jordan Nov 2009

Lebanon and Syria are in war with Israel all the time. But surprisingly, we could see no sign of war at all in both countries when we were there.
Lebanon is a more open country than Syria. There are McDonald's, Hard Rock Cafe and Buddha Bar in Beirut. I didn't see McDonald's in Damascus.
It is easy to get wine and beer in both countries but more difficult in Jordan. Lebanese wine is quite good.
Both Lebanon and Syria don't like America but they love to accept US dollars. 不喜欢美国喜欢美金。
There are 28 of us in the tour group from Universal Travel. I followed and listened to the tour guides all the time but ended up had to wait for some members of the group taking their own sweet time at each and every site for 15 to 30 minutes. Tour guides kept asking them to hurry up but they just couldn't be bother. They didn't feel bad for us who waited for them at all, not a word of sorry. All 3 tour guides were so unhappy with our Singapore group.
At the National Museum in Damascus, I was paying the toilet caretaker after using the toilet, I saw a member of our tour group dashed out of the toilet and heard the toilet caretaker shouted at him "Money, Money!", the tour member just pretended he did not hear it. This is the behaviour of Singaporean, Xiasui. I think next time when people see Singaporean coming, they will quickly lock up all the toilets.