Can you drive in Syria on a foreign licence?
What an International Driving Permit really is, why it never travels alone, what we ask for when you collect the car, and the one part of the question only your own country can answer.
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What we get asked at the counter, written down.
Car Rental Deposits in Syria — and Why We Stopped Taking One
A deposit is not a price — it is what a company holds while the car is in your hands. Here is why the habit grew in Syria, the three forms it takes, and why Tab takes none of them.
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Driving from Damascus to Aleppo: the M5 in practice
Around 355 km up the spine of Syria, with Homs as the natural halfway stop. What the drive actually takes, where the road is good, and how a one-way rental works.
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Day Trips from Homs: Krak des Chevaliers and Palmyra
Two roads leave Homs in opposite directions: one hour west to a crusader castle in the hills, two hours east across the desert to Palmyra. Here is what each drive actually asks of you.
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The Syrian coast by car: Latakia, Tartus and the road between
Ninety kilometres of coast road, a Roman theatre in Jableh, an island with no cars on it, and the climb east to Homs — one day, one car, honestly described.
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Coming home to visit: hiring a car as a Syrian abroad
You have three weeks, a long list of relatives, and no car of your own. Here is how Syrians living abroad arrange one before the flight, and use it well once they land.
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