Monday, September 19, 2005

A New One, But Might Be The Last For Many Of Us

Date and time: Friday the 16th of September from 8 am till 9 pm 35 actually.
Location: Ofra- Hrera- Bloudan.
Land type: High Mountains.
Organizer: The Rangers Hiking group, led by Bisher Al-Sawwaf a journalist and a member of the Syrian Union of Hikers.
How many kilometers: 25 which is classified as medium length. 35 some friends are cursing me day by night after this "small mistake".


How much you have to pay: only transportation fees.
so connect if you're interested. (if it is your first trip, make sure that you have the hospital fees too)



Spring
Originally uploaded by amrtheproud.



Well, I don't know where to begin from! First of all :
Sorry Ihsan , Ghalia, Dima, Reem, and in the first place, sorry Luma.
When I wrote about this trip, I didn't expect it will be exactly the same one I did about two years ago.
Oops! I told my self when we reached the place we wanted to start from, when I jumped out of the bus and looked around I realized that I was mistaken, I told them it's a medium trip, but in fact, it was the hardest one in my entire life. and now I'm do it again but this time with 4 beginners and the disaster is all of them were my friends.
I can't remember the trip well because of going up to the top of the earth, and then down to the bottom of it.
Trying to convince them how easy the hike in such mounts is, I was telling stories about how super power any human being can have if he wanted to, but deep inside, I was praying no one will fall in the middle of the road.
Actually we weren't the only hikers, we had a company, they even shared drinking water with us.


Hrera
Originally uploaded by amrtheproud.



What makes this trip so special is that we didn't pass through any village, villages always looked so far away, to be more specific, civilization seemed to be so far away. (remember I'm saying this words in Syria!)
Finally we reached Bloudan, all of us wanted to go home, but Bisher -the leader- insisted to take us to a restaurant, going to the restaurant was like a punishment nobody wanted to there!
- Please don't take us to the restaurant!
We were shouting while walking like ducks in the town, most of people were staring at us; people come to Bloudan to GO to a restaurants..??
35, that's the real distance, and not 25 as I said. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Louma telling me when going home: Thank you Am
- are you serious??
-yea, thanks we had so much fun.
-(thanks god…)

More photos on Ihsan's blog too: Ihsaniat


Hikers, our company
Originally uploaded by amrtheproud.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A New Hiking Trip:

Date and time: Friday the 16th of September from 8 am till 9 pm.
Location: Between Ofra and Bloudan.
Land type: High Mountains.
Organizer: The Rangers Hiking group, led by Bisher Al-Sawwaf a journalist and a member of the Syrian Union of Hikers.
How many kilometers: 25 which is classified as medium length.

How much you have to pay: only transportation fees.
so connect if you're interested.