Among meadows and cherry trees, the new migrant gateway to Europe

Migrants from Afghanistan walk after they crossed the border from Serbia to Hungary, near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary, on June 29, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (Reuters) - Covered in mosquito bites from nights spent out in the open, two girls from Syria, one six and one eight, lay on blankets in a grove of cherry and apricot trees in northern Serbia waiting for the next leg of their long journey to begin.

In a few hours, the girls, in matching grey track suits with the word "Hollywood" in blue lettering across the chest, would set off with a group of other migrants to try to cross illegally into Hungary.