Trail 2 Riomaggiore

... National Park with five fishing villages and a Marine Protected Area. We stayed at the popular Riomaggiore and spent a day hiking between the villages along a coastal trail and the evenings cooking up our own delicious Italian food. There were a lot of ...

After a long and complicated train ride, we made it to Italy and the little town of Riomaggiore. This town is in an area of Italy called Cinque Terra which is in fact the most beautiful place in the world. We arrived without a place to stay, so we ...

... and wash off the salt water, while we watched people diving off rocks into the deep water of the harbour. The last section to Riomaggiore was an easy, easy stroll through Lovers' Lane, Italian style. In town, we walked through a long tunnel to access the ...

... I'm sure they would dream up something that looks like any one of the five incredible little towns.  Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso are all built into this incredible landscape that includes enormous mountains, a ...

... end of the season perhaps? We started filming the next day, under glorious skies.  As the boat approaches Riomaggiore, you get a wonderful overview of the village, clinging precariously to the land, built around an inventively covered ...

... , a stretch of 5 small, quaint towns perched on the cliffsides.  I stayed in the southern-most of the 5 towns, Riomaggiore.  There is a beautiful trail you can hike to get from one town to the next.  It takes about 3 1/2 hours to do ...

... was something like 16 hours of train rides... not fun.  But it was definitely worth the trip out to Cinque Terre!  Riomaggiore was probably the second biggest, and southernmost village. So we go to the village and it was time to find the ...

... the Southern most town of Riomaggiore, we began the hike on the most famous path called "Via dell'Amore". This path connects Riomaggiore to the second town Manarola and was the easiest and the shortest of the trip. Along the Via dell'Amore graffiti from ...

... of houses perched one on top of the other. The water was crystal clear, and a windy stone path led us to Riomaggiore's beach. Unfortunately the beach was composed of large rocks. There were some local children diving off the cliffs into the water as ...

... . I spent a whole day hiking the 12km trail that follows the coast and visiting each of the villages. I started in Riomaggiore, the southernmost village, and stopped for gelati in Corniglia, lunch in Vernazza and a swim at Monterosso. The water was so ...