Positano is in fact the "soul" of Italy because it's at the bottom of the boot.
While we were at Positano we didn't do anything special, we only did your everyday things, like; climbing Mt. Vesuvius, visiting Pompeii, exploring a grotto, you know what I mean.
Although climbing Vesuvius was the highlight of this entire trip, said my mum and I.
We climbed about a kilometre up a fairly steep trail and around the rim of Vesuvius' crater.
This is my mum and me standing on the crater's edge.
Apparently "Vesuvio" is still dormant (alive but not erupting) and if you want proof, look for the wisps of smoke coming from inside the crater in this photo...
Now wind the clock back 1,928 years ago to the 24th of August, 79 AD.
In the afternoon on this day the summit of Vesuvius erupted, exploding with an annihilating, ear-busting roar.
The ash and lava did not descend the mountain towards Pompeii, but toward another innocent town known as Herculaneum.
The wind, however, was blowing in Pompeii's direction; blowing all the deadly toxic gasses and ash and pumice all over Pompeii.
It was these gasses and liquids (pumice is a toxic liquid) that killed the Pompeiians.
The once elegant town of Pompeii was covered in (in order from bottom to top); lapilli, (rocky soil) pumice, volcanic sand, more lapilli, sandy ash, even more lapilli and then ash to a total depth of six or seven metres.
For nearly 18 centuries Pompeii was forgotten until an architect excavating found the amphitheatre of the buried city.
It was in 1860 that Giuseppi Fiorelli invented the ingenious system of pouring liquid plaster into the spaces left in the bed of ashes.
This last paragraph about pouring plaster into bodies is bullspit, it is legend, and is believed by at least 90% of all humans. It is believed that pumice settles around bodies and preserves them, even once the bodies have disintergrated, that is when they pour the plaster in.
Our tourguide told us the truth; the pumice does settle around bodies and does disintergrate the flesh, but, pumice is so soft that when the flesh disintergrates, the pumice around it collapses.
The bodies you might have seen in films and volcano books were created by archaeologists and are in fact "fake" one of these archaeologists was our tourguide, so what everyone (nearly everyone) tells you about the bodies are completely false.
The reason you have probably heard different is because most tourguides only "tell you what (they think) you want to hear". And this legend promoted the tourism business.
Along with hundreds of other tourists we toured the excavations of Pompeii. Did you know that after the Pyramids of Giza, Pompeii is the most toured location in the world.
This photo shows me at the remains of the Pompeiian Forum with Vesuvius in the background.
We also toured the houses, temples, a theatre and the bakery of Pompeii which actually had a pizza oven.
In this bakery, archaeologists found 81 carbonized loaves of bread.
I gave the entire day a "99.99999/100".
We climbed about a kilometre up a fairly steep trail and around the rim of Vesuvius' crater.
This is my mum and me standing on the crater's edge.
This is the crater itself above.
Apparently "Vesuvio" is still dormant (alive but not erupting) and if you want proof, look for the wisps of smoke coming from inside the crater in this photo...
Now wind the clock back 1,928 years ago to the 24th of August, 79 AD.
In the afternoon on this day the summit of Vesuvius erupted, exploding with an annihilating, ear-busting roar.
The ash and lava did not descend the mountain towards Pompeii, but toward another innocent town known as Herculaneum.
The wind, however, was blowing in Pompeii's direction; blowing all the deadly toxic gasses and ash and pumice all over Pompeii.
It was these gasses and liquids (pumice is a toxic liquid) that killed the Pompeiians.
The once elegant town of Pompeii was covered in (in order from bottom to top); lapilli, (rocky soil) pumice, volcanic sand, more lapilli, sandy ash, even more lapilli and then ash to a total depth of six or seven metres.
For nearly 18 centuries Pompeii was forgotten until an architect excavating found the amphitheatre of the buried city.
It was in 1860 that Giuseppi Fiorelli invented the ingenious system of pouring liquid plaster into the spaces left in the bed of ashes.
Pompeii then returned to life in plaster form.
The body is plaster, the skull is real.
The body is plaster, the skull is real.This last paragraph about pouring plaster into bodies is bullspit, it is legend, and is believed by at least 90% of all humans. It is believed that pumice settles around bodies and preserves them, even once the bodies have disintergrated, that is when they pour the plaster in.
Our tourguide told us the truth; the pumice does settle around bodies and does disintergrate the flesh, but, pumice is so soft that when the flesh disintergrates, the pumice around it collapses.
The bodies you might have seen in films and volcano books were created by archaeologists and are in fact "fake" one of these archaeologists was our tourguide, so what everyone (nearly everyone) tells you about the bodies are completely false.
The reason you have probably heard different is because most tourguides only "tell you what (they think) you want to hear". And this legend promoted the tourism business.
Along with hundreds of other tourists we toured the excavations of Pompeii. Did you know that after the Pyramids of Giza, Pompeii is the most toured location in the world.
This photo shows me at the remains of the Pompeiian Forum with Vesuvius in the background.
We also toured the houses, temples, a theatre and the bakery of Pompeii which actually had a pizza oven.
In this bakery, archaeologists found 81 carbonized loaves of bread.I gave the entire day a "99.99999/100".
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