Chapter 1

Welcome to Chapter 1 of our journey!
This chapter marks our journey along the Silk Road. We will be traveling overland 🚂🚌🛥️ (without airplanes❌ ✈️) from Toronto 🇨🇦 to Hong Kong🇭🇰! Meer informatie

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Day 64: Arriving at Sorrento
7 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We took the circumvesuviana train to Sorrent from Napoli. In about 1 hour 15 mins, we were here in Sorrento!
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Day 65: Sorrento
8 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Walking around Sorrrento! Super quiet and peaceful. From here, we could enjoy the coastal view and the Mount Vesuvius.
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Day 66: Hiking in Sorrento (termini)
9 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We took a direct bus from Sorrento Train Station to Termini, the trail head of today’s hike. It is a tiny town, nothing much there.
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Day 67: Amalfi Coast Hike
10 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Arrived at Amalfi in the morning and attempted to do a short hike in the area to check out some waterfalls. However, weather was not co-operating. We got all soaked and had to return to the hotel after 3 hours of soaking wet walk.Meer informatie
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Day 68: Amalfi walk around
11 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
We had a short period of time to walk around the Amalfi town. We had a chance to visit the Basilica and along the cost in town.
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Day 68: Salerno
11 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
It’s time to say goodbye to Amalfi! We moved forward to a town called Salerno, west of Amalfi trying to catch a bus to our next stop, Matera. We thought that the bus tickets that we got would take us to Matera directly, however, it turned out that it would go back to Napoli and did a huge detour in Bari before bringing us to Matera. We spent almost 8 hours on the bus to Matera. We learnt it this time, next time we will find a more direct route to Matera. But at least the bus is comfy enough and we enjoyed this crazy long bus ride.Meer informatie
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Day 68: Arriving at Matera
11 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Welcome to Matera! We got a shocking view when we arrived here. Definitely have to explore more in the coming days.
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Day 71: Walk around Matera
14 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ 🌬 10 °C
We rested in Matera for 2 days and started to explore the town. The ancient town of Matera is also known as ‘sassi’, which means rocks or hills in Latin. This ancient town is full of stunning views and history. We could easily spent another two days just walking around and take it in.Meer informatie
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Day 71: Fall in love with Matera
14 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
It’s Valentine’s day and we definitely fell in love with Matera. There were just so much to see just wandering around on foot. We also tried the traditionally made bread in Matera, it claimed that there is no additional processing for the bread (meaning it is made by local flour only) We ended our day with a nice dinner in a nice family-run Korean Restaurant (yes! We would like some different flavour after traveling across Italy for 3 weeks) It was nice to meet nice people and have good food on the Valentine’s day this year.Meer informatie
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Day 72: Parco Della Murgia Matera
15 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
We woke up nice and early today for this hike. We noticed that there was a national park just opposite to the Matera historic center. It looks like the entrance was blocked, but we could see people from afar walking around a few days when we wandered around the historic center. We finally realized that everybody just jumped the gate and entered the park. So, we thought we would do the same! We did not regret doing it as we could see different caves (with abandoned churches) in the park and had a stunning view looking back at the sassi.Meer informatie
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Day 73: Leaving Matera
16 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Goodbye Matera! A really lovely and memorable place to visit. We moved on with our trip by taking the train to Bari,
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Day 73: Bari Central
16 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We traveled to Bari for transiting to a bus to Noci, our next destination. Bari is the transit hub for southern Italy. It is connected to many places in the Southern Italy.
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Day 73: Noci
16 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We definitely love this small town! Noci is very quiet and close to all other touristy places. It is a hidden gem of southern Italy!
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Day 74: Alberobello
17 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
The more well-known Alberobello in Southern Italy. It is famous for the ‘trulli’, the cone-shaped house. There is a spot in Alberobello where the houses are more densely populated, which makes a very nice picture. But actually we can find trulli in a lot of places around Southern Italy, they are just scattered around.Meer informatie
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Day 76: Martina Franca
19 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
This is not originally a place on the list, but we thought we were around the area already, so just dropped by to take a look. It is a larger city and full of white building. You don’t need an agenda to come here, just walk around and you can find a lot of interesting things to see.Meer informatie
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Day 76: Locorotondo
19 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
After visiting Martina Franca, instead of riding the train, we were advised that we could walk to Locorotondo on a less-traveled route. It was a wise decision! The hike to Locorotondo was relaxing and easy. The first view of Locorotondo from afar was stunning. Locorotondo itself is an interesting place as well, the old historic centre is blocked off for pedestrian only, that makes the whole area very quiet and peaceful to tour around.Meer informatie
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Day 78: Grotte di Castellana
21 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
The cave extended for 3.348 metres and reaches a depth of 122m below street level. It could only be visit with the cave tour, we joined the 11am English tour. No photo is allowed except the first cave. But it is still worth going to see it with your eyes!Meer informatie
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Day 79: Last walk around in Noci
22 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Our final full day in Noci. It has been our most favourite town to live so far. It is small, but well-connected, and most importantly, away from the tourists. We would love to come back some day!
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Day 80: Walk around Bari
23 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
After saying goodbye to Noci, we went back to Bari mainly for our boat ride to Igoumenitsa, Greece at night. We had a few hours here, so we did our laundry and walk around Bari to check out 2 tentative UNESCO world heritage, Basilica di San Nicola and Bari Cathedral (Cathedral of Saint Sabinus)Meer informatie
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Day 80: SuperFast Boat ride to Greece
23 februari 2024, Italië ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Our time in Italy has come to an end. It is time for a new journey in Greece. We took the SuperFast ferry to Igoumenitsa, Greece. It took us 10 hours to arrive in Greece. The ferry is horrible with a lot of cigarette smell.Meer informatie
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Day 81: Arriving Igoumenitsa
24 februari 2024, Griekenland ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Good morning Greece! Nice and early! Time to check in to our hotel next to the port to get some sleep.
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Day 82: Leaving Igoumenitsa
25 februari 2024, Griekenland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Igoumenitsa is just a port town, we just stayed there for 1 night for recovery over the overnight boat ride. Today we are heading to Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece.
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Day 82: Arriving at Thessaloniki
25 februari 2024, Griekenland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
The Thessaloniki Macedonian Ktel Bus station is amazing. Very well organized and user-friendly. Our first impression to Thessaloniki is very good.
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Day 84: Walk around Thessaloniki
27 februari 2024, Griekenland ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Thessaloniki is full of history. In 1988, the UNESCO declared world heritage sites 15 of the ‘finest monuments’ of the city. We tried to nail down this 15 sites. They are just within walking distance.
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Day 86: Walk around Thessaloniki 2
29 februari 2024, Griekenland ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We continued our walk in Thessaloniki today. Visiting the Rotonda was particularly interesting as the only architecture that could be compared to Rotonda is the Pantheon in Rome. We also visited a few smaller Orthodox churches, which were quite mind-blowing as well.Meer informatie
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