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[[File:Road-South-from-Aleppo.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Road South from [[Aleppo]]]]
It might be wise to learn at least some basic Arabic to communicate with locals. Not many people speak more English than the ''phrase "Welcome to Syria'' phrase". Sometimes you can find old people speaking French. Some people also, from the older and middle generation, speak Russian due to the fact that they studied or worked in Eastern Europe ( that was my experience when i was in Aleppo in November 2010 ). Especially for explaining your hitchhiking intention (and to ask for the way the driver goes), it is an absolute advantage to know some Arabic.
When hitchhiking out of a city, try to stand by the road where there are no people around. When [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] tried hitching out of Jisrash Shugur, he accepted an invitation to tea from employees of a nearby garage. They thought he was lost and called the police, who sent him to a military base where he was interrogated for several hours and told hitchhiking was illegal before being forced onto a bus bound for [[Damascus]].
