By far, I most enjoyed Syria. It was a fascinating combination of the old and the new, traditional and modern and having grown up as a hybrid between east and west, it felt so natural to me to pray in a 13th century mosque in the afternoon and the same evening go salsa dancing in a nightclub. You can do that in Damascus, Aleppo. And you also get to dine on fabulous food in fancy restaurants and pay McDonald prices. It's so affordable to live there and going to historic old souqs or having coffee overlooking a medieval fortress were everyday occurrences. You can get spoiled with that kind of stuff but it makes a nice change from the corner Starbucks and strip malls back in the States.