Everyday Wonders: Cinque Terre

Last Friday, I hike Cinque Terre with my friend Kimmy. Cinque Terre literally means "5 Lands" since you hike through 5 beautiful coastal towns. I am going to do this blog a little differently. I am going to have a picture, then explain it. We'll see how it goes!

1st Town- Riomaggiore. We arrived from Florence at 10:15 am

From there we walked the "Walk of Love"

The views were absolutely amazing and the water was an incredible shade of blue. I didn't edit these pictures either.

Kimmie and I

We reached the second town of Vernazza

The path along the coast to the next town was closed because there was a legit landslide so we did the mountain hike instead. It consisted of walking up a ton of steps!

Vernazza (the 2nd town) from the mountain top

So happy to be hiking!

You can see the little path and how high up we hiked. When we came down, we realized we were in the clouds!

The third town, Cornigilia

Hiking away

Corniglia was such an Italian looking town

This is in Corniglia. It reminded me of the hike we would do when we lived in Camarillo since there was a "teacup" of water framed by the mountain side/city.

Corniglia again. You can see the terraced vineyards. We walked through many vineyards during our hike. My mom also told me that the are more stones used here to terrace the mountain side then there are in the Great Wall. I know it's hard to believe, but every single mountain is terraced. It's crazy!

There were so many cats along the paths. I made friends with this little guy. He immediately ran up to me and started purring and rubbing my legs.

This is one of the closed paths we took. This is from Corniglia to Vernazza. It's closed because there could be landslides and since it's not summer time yet they don't want to open it. We passed a ton of people and did not see anything wrong with the trail.

Hiking along!

The water was just amazing and there were these neat little caves and rock formations along the coast.

We made it to Vernazza, which was the cutest and prettiest of all the towns. It is literally right over the water.

There were boats in the streets and so many bright, happy colors.

We stopped here to have our picnic lunch right on the water.

Then we took another closed trail to the last town. They were doing construction and decided to place these huge bags of boulders or sand right in the middle of the path, forcing us to climb over them. This path was probably closed for a reason. Oh well! There was a couple in front of us and we met other girls who said they had hiked it so we assumed it was fine and it was- we lived!