Bus Station:

buses are frequent and cheap - most Syrians use the bus, as very few have their own car. Distances are short and most trips take under four hours. Bus types include the traditional coach, minibuses and Japanese vans known as microbuses. Service taxis operate on the major bus routes but are considerably more expensive than microbuses.

Services run from Damascus and Aleppo to most towns and are cheap and efficient. There are orange-and-white air-conditioned Karnak (government-operated) buses. Reservations should be made well in advance. Karnak bus routes serve their own terminals, which are usually in or near the city centres. There are also privately run bus and microbus services which started recently all over Syria. 

Travel time startung from Damascus:

Getting to Jordan: You find a service taxi at the bus station or take the Karnak bus in the morning or the Jett bus in the afternoon, you pay the fare which is broadly the same as in the other direction, and there you are! There is no problem is obtaining a visa for Jordan at the frontier, price is 10JD or approx 16USD to be paid in JD. There are plenty of facilities for changing money or for drawing from ATMs at the frontier. There is certainly no point in applying to the Jordan Embassy in Damascus, in fact they often refuse to process a visa for you, saying that you should get one at the frontier. You can only get a single entry visa there however; if you should need a multi entry visa (price 20JD) for some reason, then insist at the Embassy. There is little point in it for most people since single entry visas are so easy to obtain.

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