Day 4- Cinque Terre

So on Day 4 we did a day trip up to Cinque Terre through www.walkaboutpass.com ! If you ever go to Florence, USE THEM! AMAZING!!!! Anyways for those that don't know anything about Cinque Terre, it is a coastal region where there are 5 small villages! We decided to do a day trip where we trekked through the towns! All the towns are along the cliff off the coast. To get to each town you can either ride a train, take a boat, or hike to each one! Let me just say that Kevin and I are not hikers or avid walkers either, so this definitely tested our pain tolerance! I was so proud of us!

So we left Florence by bus for I think a 2 hour ride to Cinque Terre. We really enjoyed the bus ride because we got to witness so beautiful country on the way there! We learned so much about the region of Italy. They have a huge textile industry in the area, as well as nurseries. Goodness we passed so many different rows or trees, plants, etc. They ship them all over the world; VERY beautiful! There are also some mountains that have marble in them that they mine for!

When we finally arrived in Cinque Terre we started out and hiked down into the second town, Manarola.

From there we had to take a train to the 3rd town of Corniglia because of some landslides! Once we got off the train we had to hike up to the town because it is way up in the top of the cliff!

 I don't know if you can tell but those are steps we were fixing to climb. I think there were like 400 of them!

 This is looking up the step, doesn't do it justice on how steep and tall they were! MAJOR WORKOUT!

We decided Biggest Loser should do a season here, they loose weight so fast here!

This is the view up in the town.

We ate lunch here and the picture above was pretty much our view!! The lunch was sooo amazing! In Cinque Terre they make their own Pesto sauce. So we had the most delicious pesto pasta with potatoes and green beans in it. I know that sounds gross but it was actually really really good!

Next we did our toughest trek to Vernazza; it was 4KM and took probably an hour and a half!

 This is looking back at Corniglia after a bit of our hike!

 Back at Corniglia again!

 This is looking at down what part of our hike looked like.

This is coming into Vernazza.

I think both Kevin and I decided we like Vernazza the best! We stopped here for a bit and had some amazing gelato! They have a beach front here!

Next we took a train to the last town of Monterrosso. It was gorgeous as well! Lots of beach front. They kind of have an old area and a near area! While there we went to a wine bar and had some wine tastings!!

After that we got on a boat and got to see all 5 towns from the sea! It was BEAUTIFUL!!! We took the boat all the way to the first city of Riomaggiore.

 Vernazza

 You can kind of see one of our trails!

 Corniglia

 Manarola

Riomaggiore

We got off in Riomaggiore and then trekked back to Manarola. It was so beautiful! We had an amazing day. I think Kevin decided this was his favorite place we visited!