Yup and the journey continue.. After a long tiring day in Florence we had a good night sleep, I bought pasta from Supermarket and cook it at the hostel, so we finally have some proper dinner and get a good night sleep. Oh yeah you still remember the previous post when I told you the hotel has no air conditioner and it's hot summer, but well don't worry. At night it's not that warm, it's actually quite cold in the hostel.
Day 5 - Morning Train to Pisa
We take the morning train from Florence to Pisa, you don't have to book in advance for this one, the ticket cost 7.80 euro and the journey take 1 hour. Pisa the city of leaning tower, one of the famous symbol of Italy, but we're here not to see the leaning tower. Instead we want to go to Cinque Terre (The 5 lands), five seaside village with an extra ordinary view. Cinque Terre is located near La Spezia, to get there you have to take the train from Pisa to La Spezia (7euro one way). At La Spezia you can find the Cinque Terre tourist information and buy the combined train+hiking track ticket (10euro), and they will also give you the train schedule. After we got the ticket we hop on the train and get off on the first village Riomaggiore. From there we walk our way through the Via dell' Amore (Path of Love). Hoping to find some love there we walk our way through the path, enjoying the gorgeous view of Riomaggiore.
After walking for almost 40 minutes we finally reach village number 2 (Manarolla) I know, they said only 25 minutes walking, but we stopped a lot for pictures and we just want to take it slow and enjoy the view. From Manarolla you have to take the train to Corniglia, you can't really see anything during the train trip, because you will pass some kind of tunnel, so it will be just an ordinary train trip. After we arrived in Corniglia we decided to walk to Vernazza (Village 4) which turns out to be a bad decision, because we have to hike about 4km, and it's hiking, not just regular walking, really uphill, and we're not prepared for that (I had slippers instead of hiking shoes). So, if you wanna enjoy all the 5 village it's better if you take the train, because it took us about 3 hours to get to Vernazza. But on the bright side, the view is pretty amazing during the hike, so it's kinda worth it to do it. Oh and it was very hot, so you can see some people gave up and take off their shirt and just walk with underwear or bikini.
After a long 3 hours of walking we take the train to the last village (duhh!!!!lesson learned, I'm not that stupid :p). Monterosso, the beach where you can lay down and just relax after that long walking trip, of course it's summer so the beach is really packed and full of people, but we're lucky we find a spot to sit down and relax a little bit before we go back to Pisa.
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| Finally Monterosso |
Is that it? so you didn't see the leaning tower of Pisa???? Of course not, after we finished our cinque terre trip, we went to see the leaning tower of Pisa, it's a must take picture, just to prove that you've been to Italy. It's not really much to see in Pisa, except the leaning tower, and even the tower is not that big, it's not as great as I expected but well, you still have to at least take silly pictures there. Oh yeah, the souvenir is also extra expensive there 2.5euro each :(
We stayed hostel pisa (paid 20.75/person). The hostel is okay, we got 4 person dorm, but only both of us that stayed in that room so it feel like private room with ensuite bathroom. The annoying part if you have to pay deposit 5 euro for every stuff you borrow from the hostel (including pan, plates, fork, and spoon).
We stayed hostel pisa (paid 20.75/person). The hostel is okay, we got 4 person dorm, but only both of us that stayed in that room so it feel like private room with ensuite bathroom. The annoying part if you have to pay deposit 5 euro for every stuff you borrow from the hostel (including pan, plates, fork, and spoon).