Newly-arrived Syrian refugees on the road after crossing the border from Tal Shehab city in Syria through the Al Yarmouk River valley into Thnebeh town, in Ramtha, Jordan, Sept. 5, 2012. Jordanian military vehicles make few trips down the valley to help elderly refugees, women, and children to reach the town of Thnebeh. Mohammad Hannon/AP
A Syrian boy, who fled his home in Marea due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, is adorned in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag as he and his family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Aug. 30, 2012. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Syrian refugees carry bridegroom Hudhayfah Al Hariri, during wedding celebrations at Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Sept. 9, 2012. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
A young Syrian refugee looks out from a bus as he arrives at a stopover facility for breaking fast near the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, in Hatay province, Aug. 10, 2012. Umit Bektas/Reuters
Syrian refugees carry their belongings to their tent after arriving at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on Sept. 3, 2012. Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children/Reuters
Rada Hallabi, who is sick with diabetes, lies on a blanket in a refugee camp on the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012. Manu Brabo/AP
Syrian refugees shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after receiving news from the Syrian frontline at Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Sept. 9, 2012. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
A displaced Syrian woman is seen in a building still under construction in an improvised refugee camp at the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012. Manu Brabo/AP
Syrians line up to collect water from a tanker, as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Sept. 7, 2012. The days are still hot across the plains of northern Syria, but at night there is a chill an ominous harbinger of winter's approach and the deepening of the humanitarian crisis gripping a country wracked by civil war. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
An Iraqi border policeman looks through a pair of binoculars near the Iraqi-Syrian borders at the Abu Kamal-qaim border crossing, the main border post between Iraq and Syria, Sept. 8, 2012. Al Qaim, in the Sunni heartland of Anbar province, reflects the tricky balancing act Iraq's Shi'ite leaders face in Syria, whose crisis is testing the Middle East's sectarian divide. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
A Syrian refugee stands in a refugee camp in al-Qaim, Anbar province, Sept. 8, 2012. Al Qaim, in the Sunni heartland of Anbar province, reflects the tricky balancing act Iraq's Shi'ite leaders face in Syria, whose crisis is testing the Middle East's sectarian divide. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
Syrian boys play near a refugee camp on the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012. Manu Brabo/AP
Two Syrian men walk by a defaced poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as they cross from Turkey into Syria through the Bab Al-Salam border crossing, under control of the Free Syrian Army, near the town of Azaz, north of Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 13, 2012. Khalil Hamra/AP
Syrian refugee children take part in drawing activities in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on Sept. 4, 2012. Jonathan Hyams/Reuters
Syrian refugees walk after collecting water at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, July 31, 2012. Jordan opened the camp with 2,000 tents to accommodate an expected new influx of refugees near the border. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
Refugees in Jordan's cities outnumber those in the Za'atari refugee camp at least 3-to-1. And while camp life is hard, urban refugees have problems of their own.
Sitting cross-legged on the floor of her chilly, unfurnished home, a Syrian widow explains how she sneaked out of Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp. It cost 50,000 Syrian pounds, about $700, to pay someone from outside to sneak her past the camp's security. She was allowed to pay half up-front, and had a relative in Jordan who could lend her the money.
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