When I learnt that Pompeii was in Italy, I quickly checked to see if it was possible for us to drop by. Because it's one of the things I can actually remember from my Geography textbook. So today we leave Rome for Pompeii.
Fontana Del Tritone, still in Rome near our hotel
We walked towards the railway station, Stazione Termini and on the way we had a simple breakfast. Coke seems cheaper than water so that's what we had.
Our A160.. This was, the cheapest auto car I could get. Most of the cars here are manual. We opted for auto because we're gonna be driving on cliffs and slopes so.. safety comes first!
This is the road next to Stazione Termini. When we tried to return our car that we drove from Venice the other day, we couldn't find the place to return it and kept going round, onto this road. So we met that Kungfu Panda poster many times.
Going South, towards Napoli!
Bought this from the Dolomiti supermarket. Tasted okay.. I didn't manage to finish the whole packet before it melted into a messy goo.
Could that be Mount Vesuvius?
We stopped by this quiet little city which looks like Malaysia for lunch.
Had a crazy time trying to communicate with the owners about what we wanted. We wanted to try something really local. It tasted o-k, there were not enough ingredients for my liking and we suspect they totally overcharged us.
Well, after filling our tummies, we reached Pompeii with the help of chingyuh's gps.
There weren't enough english speaking tourists to form a English tour =( so we had to get audio guides.
Like the Colosseum, we can only imagine how the place could have looked like before the nasty eruptions of Mount Vesuvius buried the whole city. It is also quite irritating that most of the artifacts have been moved to the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Pompeii was rich with art pieces, mosaics and portraits so it was a pity that we didn't have the time to drop by the museum.
These are the famous plaster casts that we saw in our textbooks.. The decomposed bodies left holes in the ashes left by the volcano, and archaeologists poured plaster into these holes to cast the original shapes of these Pompeiani. We can see that they hardly had time to escape and their bodies are contorted in pain. Even their facial expressions were captured and this guy is gritting his teeth.
Baths. I was more interested in the many dogs which came in here to escape from the heat. They all lay motionless and I was quite afraid that they could be dead.
This was where they sold cooked food
A famous canine mosaic
Colorful walls
another beautiful mosaic
You know that you're near the whorehouse when you see such phallic symbols on the walls
Were they so short?
This is the Lupanare, or the brothel. Also the most crowded place in Pompeii.
There were erotic art displayed, it is not sure if these are advertisements or some kind of menu for you to choose from.
at the Forum, with Mount Vesuvius in the background
lemonade ice
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