By late afternoon we had reached the village of Ugokan, where we saw little more than a few shells of timber and stone: jordan outlet no people were left. A handful of children had gone missing in the ancient caves and the search party never made it out. Other villagers vanished after that, and finally the rest just packed up and left. A century ago, said local stories, the caves had sheltered an army that had ravaged the entire region. We were about to see what they sheltered now.

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