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Most European tourists can get their visa directly at the border, but of course check your local embassy for country-specific visa requirements. The prices are in US$, so it's best if you have some of this currency on you before you head towards the Syrian border. If you're only planning to stay a couple of days you should get a transit visa, which was 15$ for Dutch citizens in December 2010. When entering Syria, you also get an entry/exit card. Don't loose it, you need it when leaving the county. When leaving [[Syria]], you additionally have to buy an exit/return-ticket at the border checkpoints. These can be bought in most cases in little supermarkets just in front of the ''we stamp your passport''-offices. As in August 2008of December 2010, the price for an exit card was 550 500 Syrian Pound (500 SYP exit card, 50 SYP taxes).

* ''[[Daraa]] checkpoint'': It is [[User:Guaka|guaka]] didn't experience any troubles heading to Jordan in October 2008 and in December 2010. CRCulver experienced that it was not permitted to walk across the border, and any cars going across must have a formal manifest of all passengers. The guards on the Syrian side are generally not willing to allow a hitchiker hitchhiker to stand at the border gate to wait for a car, and any car willing to drive back into the city to add your name to the manifest at the transportation office will want money.