To Lattakia, and the Mediterranean.

So we (me, Leo, Alex, and Alex's friend Clarissa) took a trip this weekend to Lattakia, which was a four and a half hour bus ride north of Damascus, past the mountains to the left and the desert to the right until you can go west to the coast, where it basically just looks like Ohio except there's a Mediterranean Sea with crabs and pelicans and stuff. We had a good time, made some friends (pictured), went to their chalet, and pretty much partied all afternoon. Multiple (more than six) cups of tea, five cups of coffee, two cups of Pepsi, two sandwiches, two hookahs, and three debke dances later, we finally made our way home, salty and tired.

Desert. This picture faces east through the broad part of Syria. On the left were big mountains that we were driving right next to but I wasn't on that side of the bus and on the way back it was night.



This is where we got lost in Ohio for a couple of hours.



Nice.



Hotel for the night. We got there late and went swimming the next morning. This is Alex and Clarissa, obviously.



Lattakia is nice. This is the view from our balcony that night.



On our way to the beach, we met these guys. I thought they were fake until one of them tried to bite me.



This is another one of those pictures that don't need a description, in my opinion.



Alex, contemplating? I think that's Italy in the distance (not really).



Relatively pointless picture.



Also relatively pointless except you can see a woman veiled in the beach with her naked toddler daughter. Talk about extremes.



We first meet The Dudes.



More of The Dudes. Note that these guys probably knew about three words in English put together. We left them very happy yet sad to leave, but also extremely exhausted mentally.



Yeah.



I have one video of us trying to debke, one of us successfully doing debke, and one of Waleed, the guy on the right in the first Dudes picture, waving his hands in the air with the hookah in his mouth yelling "Arabs, Arabs!" (in Arabic, obviously) to a song that he likes. You'll have to specially request those when I get back.