These few days in Capri have been great. This is such a beautiful island and the people here are very friendly. Everything is so green here, it makes hiking, though uphill, a little more enjoyable in the heat. Yesterday was our first/only full day on the island and we really made it a full day. It started with a Blue Grotto visit (the little cave with the bright blue water) and after the blue grotto we took a boat tour around the island to see the coastline. Again, this island is incredible. The cliffs were amazingly high and the water was amazingly blue haha. On the boat tour around the island we were able to stop and visit a few more grottos along the cliffs which were also very sweet--we saw the green grotto, the coral grotto, and the white grotto. We also went beneath the 'arc of love' haha. It is like a natural arc off the coast that you can drive the boat through. While on the tour we saw Georgio Armani's house which was probably 1 of the 100 he owns. After the tour we went on the freaking hike of a lifetime. We hiked up the northeast part of the island to a place called the Villa Jovis. This place was the hang out spot for Emperor Vesuvius during his reign as the king. There were incredible views of the island and also the Amalfi coast off in the distance. After that we hiked down to the 'Arco Natural' which was another natural arc that was at the top of the cliff side. There are pictures on facebook of it for those of you who wanna see the pics. After the Arco Natural, we hiked down what seemed like a million steps and then walked along the coastline on the paths back towards the hotel. This part of the hike was by far the best and most picturesque. There were new pics to take literally after every turn we took. This morning I thought it would be a good idea to run up the windy from the port below our hotel. It turns out if you ever want to attempt suicide, running uphill for a mile would probably be a success. Today we took a bus over the the other side of the Isle of Capri to a place called Anacapri, pretty creative, I know. In Anacapri we took a chairlift up to the top of Mount Solero, which is the tallest 'mountain' on the island, it is about 600 meters high so like 2,000 feet? The view from the top of the mountain was really sweet. the water is so blue it was really difficult to tell where the water ended and the sky began which was pretty cool. Today we are taking a Hydrofoil to Positano, which is like 40 minutes from Capri. Tomorrow we are planning on going to Pompeii which should be pretty interesting/cool to see.
ps. this island is infested with these enormous bugs that looks like a mega bee. or like a 10 bees all stuck together and they sound like helicopters when they fly by. its gross. haha
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