" Follow the Women are proud to announce the 2008 Pedal For Peace in the Middle East, which will take place on 3rd to 14th May this year.
Nearly 400 women representing more than 30 nationalities will arrive in Beirut on 2nd May for the fourth 'Follow the Women' bike ride, which winds through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.
* The 2008 bike ride will start in Beirut with the formal opening ceremony at the UNESCO Palace. The women will ride to the Sabra and Shatilla Refugee Camps before riding from Mount Lebanon to Saidon (Saida) and on to Tyre (Sour)
* They will then cross the Lebanese / Syrian border and cycle in Damascus and Qunaitra before riding in the Golan Heights. The women then journey to Jordan and take part in a Peace Advocacy cycle ride in Amman and in the evening they will meet Jordanian women and Iraqi and Palestinian refugees at the Cultural Palace. The following day those who are still able to sit on a saddle will ride along the Dead Sea before attending an International Evening there!
* All being well the 'Follow the Women' group will cross the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge into the Palestine where they will ride in Jericho, Ramallah and Nablus.
Top picture: American Kim Mander, left, talks with Iranian Shiva Marangi, right, as they prepare to ride with more than 300 other women from about 30 countries, in Baakleen, Shouf region of mount Lebanon outside Beirut on Sunday May 4, 2008, as they begin their Middle East cycle tour for peace. The peace cycling tour 'Follow the Women', attract people from across Europe, America and Arab countries, starting in the Lebanese capital and will take them to Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem
More than 300 women from about 30 countries, ride in Baakleen, Shouf region of mount Lebanon outside Beirut on Sunday May 4, 2008, as they begin their Middle East cycle tour for peace.
Tags: follow the women, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, source: AP, source: Ya Libnan, Syria
