As we tried to film among the ruins of Reyhanli's main square we were physically stopped and harassed by locals.

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Among the ruins, a few gems here and there.

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The worst eyesores are in the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento, in Sicily, where car show-rooms and tacky restaurants have sprouted almost among the ancient ruins.

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The flooded streets made it hard for him to drive the town to search for new ruins among the old ones.

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Among the bombed-out ruins of his hideout, American forces found a letter from a man calling himself Atiyah who said he spoke on behalf of the whole of al-Qaeda's leadership.

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Nursing bruises and bites, travellers are able to discover an abandoned city that is still revealing its secrets, exploring green copses and stone paths through dense jungle, bathing in waterfalls, sleeping among ruins, and most majestic of all, watching the clouds spill across the terraces at sunset each night.

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Shop owner Kathy Pinn is among those who came back yesterday as her daughter Betsy Balder(PH) was combing through the ruins.

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