We left the hotel at 9.00am to catch our bus to Pompeii. Our driver, Giuseppe, and our guide, Danielle, accompanied us on our journey. It took about 30 minutes.
We met our local guide, Vernina, at the gates of the archaeological park of Pompeii and began a tour of the extensive excavations of the old city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash and lava in August AD 79.
We marvelled and the preserved buildings and streets of this 1st century city, frozen in time by the disaster that befell them.
After our tour of Pompeii, we returned to our hotel in Naples for a free afternoon.Read more