Google is so much fun. I entered SYRIA BICYCLE. I found a listing for a video made while the cyclist rode around in Damascus for 90 minutes. The filmer was not pleased with locally made bikes, bring your own. Wikitravel.org said it was a bike-sized country but traffic was bad and drivers aggressive and underskilled for the most part. I lived in Turkey for two years in the late 1960s and wearing colorful spandex would have gotten a female is incredible trouble very quickly. Watch what you wear and how you behave. I would not recommend that you go anywhere alone. Check with the US State Department before you go and register with the US Embassey when you get there.