Day Trip to Pompei (by Trevor)

We made it to Pompei and made our way to the 'old city' where the ruins were. the ruins were preserved bscause a volcano had erupted and burried the entire city. This bureied city was only discovered xx years ago. The city was over 2000 years old.

We didn't know at the time that we took the wrong train, we could have gotten on one that took us close to the entrance. So we walked about 20 minutes or so to the site. We got our tickets, no line great, and entered but we wanted audio guides. But the lady told us that hey are on at the other gate. We had a map, but it took us a good 10 minutes to find out where we were, and then we realized that we needed to walk across the entire site (20 mintues) to get to the main entrance to get an audio guide.

So we were annoyed, and it was hot, but when we finally got there, there was a huge line for tickets, so it was kinda good hat we had our and walked all he way across.

We spent about 3 hours exploring he cite. The coolest things we saw where:
1. Bodies that were in the act of drying, hands raised in surprise including facial experessions. These bodies were made from casts that were made when hey were discovered. The ash had burried and preserved them exactly how they were when the volcano erupted.
2. A old theater, this was pretty cool.
3. Cool roads made of big cobblestone and the giant stones used as crosswalks.
4. Paintings on the walls and mosaic tiles on the floors, that have been amazingly preserved, many with bright colours still.
5.. My favourite was the town brothel. Complete with; beds made of stone includig the pillow, erotic picuters on the walls dipicting various sexual positions, and engraving in the walls about complaints of vineral disieases.

It was so hot we barely made it 3 hours, although we could have spent another 3 because the town itself was huge. We took the right train back to Naples, so we didn't need to walk back to the station in 'new Pompei' and found a train back to Rome. We ate our leftover pasta that we had cooked the other night and went to bed early preparing for our day tomorrow at the Vatican.

We had one good surprise and that was the girl who kept closing he window has finally left! Yeah!

written by  Trevor and Amber on June 15, 2009 from Pompei, Italy
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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