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Arches in the ruins of Serjilla

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Tucked away in the countryside of Northern Syria, the Dead Cities are a mysterious remainder of settlements abandonded more than 1500 years ago.
After a brief visit to Al Bara, another Dead City hidden in olive plantations, which we left because the sticky, red mud sucked our shoes into the earth, we arrived at Serjilla, the most accessible Dead City. Grey clouds raced down the sky above us, and the last rain drops were still falling down as we walked down the hill of Serjilla, into the small valley. As we stopped on the ridge of the valley, we could see the enormous area, with ruins of all kinds of buildings everywhere. Quite soon, we saw sarcophagi, some with their lid open, adding to the mysterious feel of the place.
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