Pompeii

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Since I read about Vesuvius, sometime back in school, I wanted to visit Pompeii, the city built in shadow of a volcano and then burried in ashes of one of the biggest volcanic explosion in written history. Its a short train ride away from Napoli. The ruins of city are quite well preserved. Its all been dug out and just walking through the ruins, its hard to imagine that it was burried under tonnes of ash. Some of the houses also have paintings on wall. You can clearly see some places that could be restaurants. We heard some of the stories that guides were telling, they seemed very telltaly, hard to believe they figured all the details out from the ruins! We also saw the famous the petrified bodies which are suppose to be preserved perfectly as the pyroclastic flow suddenly hit the town and caught all residents offguard. Some of them clearly seem to be petrified in agony.

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