Damascus, taxi drivers have become accustomed to the echoes of war over city soundtrack, nonlocal passengers were unknown chug bullets frighten urine, their expressions like hear year firecrackers calm.
Once the gas station in front of the opposition controls is about the blast of the blast, they can't help but tell you how far away the city is.
You can't angry, the taxi driver is the only city more than willing to accompany you in the sway of the laps, risking see Allah's life at any time, the driver started to kill people to local than Damascus steel knife sharp:
"Not only be controlled at gas stations, more than half of the urban roads are blocked, a new barricades, every day I did the line since 92, familiar with city map accumulated have lost all meaning."
The usual 10-minute drive is now more than half an hour away, looking for the meter in your heart dripping blood.
The meter of the Syrian taxi is hidden in a very secluded place, and if you don't ask for it, you can't see it all your life.
Civil unrest broke out in 2011, in the big cities of aleppo have divided by different forces us just arrived from the east side of the Damascus assad army under the control of the city centre, you need to cross three free opposition forces occupied the city.
In the divided capital Damascus, red is the government's control zone, green is the rebel arm, and gray is ISIS.
If you want to navigate between neighborhoods under different control, you have to use yellow cabs, even if you don't sit down.
The opposition USES sandbags at every crossroads to set up checkpoints, to search for the identities of each passing person, and if a satisfactory civilian vehicle is seen, it will be forcibly commandeered in the name of expropriation.
"The taxi is basically going to be released, whether the government or the opposition, everybody knows that without our entire city, the connection will be paralyzed."
At the age of 38, the driver of Damascus, maddie, was in a victorious position after crossing the opposition's armed checkpoints.
In fact he is very worried about their situation, "through the opposition's levels like pierced won a dean, accidentally can cause sentry suspicious glance at the eyes, so my secret is not to occur any eye contact."
Mr Abdu, 45, is much more worried than he is: "I am doing business in government-controlled areas, and I am also looking for customers who earn less but are at least safe."
Taxi in six months ago, the government and the opposition have mutual suspicion for each other, asha's army requisitioned taxi into Damascus dara and region of southwest raid zone where the rebels, the opposition has identified a taxi company helped balsa forces, in the middle of the city transportation service it is very difficult to survive.
He was in the case of unknown completely controlled by the opposition of the bridge, immediately received the fire wheels remind, from abdo back to Malaysia after the city has suffered loyalists charges of betrayal.
"Even then, you can only earn seven or eight dollars a day."
From Damascus to Jordan's capital Amman had 2 to 3 hours of journey, now due to detour and numerous checkpoints need spend eight hours, though there are still the driver to carry passengers to continue in this line.
"I'm not worried about my safety. I have to do it. I have three generations of families and a 14-year-old son."
Driver patel was carrying four journalists to take a taxi in northwest speeding on the highway, has been tracking in the warplanes swooped down suddenly thrown out of the two bombs, a 80 - degree turn and got my life back to patel, he shrieked audience shouted: "who want to continue to stay in Syria? ?"
True Syrian old driver, facing the guided missile, four to two thousand jin.
The optical tracking ceramic missile can change the path according to the movement of the target. If the driver moves the vehicle early, the missile will follow. As a result, when the missile comes to its own, it can calmly wait for the last second to move the vehicle, the psychological quality is very strong.
The old driver, trained by Damascus, is a world-class old driver, adept at avoiding missiles, adapting to any road condition, and relying on the long history of the automobile culture.
No scrap car system of the Damascus once ubiquitous cars over 50 years old car on the road, is the world recognized as "moving car museum", in five or six years ago, you can also see 1952 di soto, the 1958 Opel, singing with the horns in downtown after the mule race was dying.
Now the city's "retro show" is a century apart, with mortars blowing up corpses strewn across the landscape, and a few years of gunfire buried the graves of cars in the streets.
No Internet, no cell phones, no flights, no water, no electricity, no gas, no oil, no heating, no medical care, no food -- welcome to Syria.
As the world's auto museum is in danger, local drivers have been replaced by an outfit that has been replaced by a new Oriental outfit.
They don't care whether he is in the Kurdish bazooka range, as long as you are not the suicide bombers, the islamic countries can even take you to visit the male population under erosion environment encourage lesbian bars.
In these yellow taxi queue, you can find almost all Chinese research and development of independent brands, more than half of chery, foreign cars, can only kia with geely and changan upstage the rest of the market.
The Middle East has three treasures, the chery chang 'an and the lucky panda.
"To feed those incompetent government, large displacement imports will charge 120% of the tariff, it is really for me, every day in the dead, I care about is can eat pita tonight not environmental protection"
Bad roads don't need a surge of power, and it's smart to have 20 litres of petrol to run 300 miles.
In binesh, idlib province, the Syrian free military lucky panda has pulled mortars to the front.
Chery QQ modified tank.
Al cloth rocky company is the only distributor in chery that year throughout the Syria, 200 sets of samir once by chery cloud threatened to surpass South Korea car sales in two years, now he has established a nationwide 13 cities 15 dealerships, easy to cash at the beginning of the cow force to speak.
Behind it are the 4S flagship stores built by samir.
"This kind of people's big eyes QQ car a stare me I feel to have the edge, to now the Syrian people all know it is called QQ car."
Any local gas station can see at least a few hundred meters of small displacement, and Chinese cars are less expensive for drivers like abdu and maddie.
Today's Damascus, which owns the overseas factory of the domestic car, has the spare parts inventory, the warranty is within three years, and the warranty is 100,000km.
He said it would be a problem for him to be able to live for another three years, but his Chinese car would be fine for another three years.
Zasida, 52, the only female taxi driver in aleppo, lost her son in the war in Syria, but still believes her city will be rebuilt again.
"We aleppo than Paris is beautiful", she recalled, "at first it took me five to six years to persuade his father about the fact that women can also, can even do this line of taxis."
"Then the Chinese car came along and my family could finally afford the price of a car, and it was really hard to get it all."
Sometimes Zagreb west to really meet soon to soldiers on the battlefield, she and they learned how to think about life and death, never to death when will appear in this article on the streets of back and forth every day.