Team Toad Med 2004: Herculaneum
Med > Flight | Barcelona | Ship | Marseilles | Nice | Pisa | Rome | Napoli | Herculaneum | Athens | Other Ships


The highlight of our trip was an afternoon tour to Herculaneum, a Roman town dedicated to Hercules. The town was struck by an earthquake in 65 AD that levelled it. Instead of heeding the warning, the town spent 17 years rebuilding, only to be destroyed by a 60 foot tall mudslide from the eruption of Mount Vesivius in 79 AD.

Neither Jacey nor Kelsey wanted to take another bus tour after our 10 hour trip to Rome, so Fuzzy, Debbie and Dan loaded up with cameras and headed off.

Our tour guide Enzo took us on a two hour walking tour through a first century vacation town, but he really took us back two millenia to the lives of these Romans.

It was certainly eerie walking back from the town to the tour bus, with Mount Vesuvius looming in the backgroun.

IMG_1408 244W8767 IMG_2301 IMG_1425
IMG_1430 244W8819 244W8825 244W8832
244W8868 244W8908 IMG_2363 244W8934
IMG_2370 244W8936 IMG_1478 IMG_1480
244W8950 244W8967 244W8979 IMG_1496
244W8998 244W9000 244W9009 244W9015
IMG_1501 IMG_2418 244W9022 IMG_2424
244W9027 244W9031 IMG_2428 244W9042
244W9060 244W9066 244W9069 244W9070
IMG_1526 244W9072 244W9091 244W9100
244W9110 Wine price list IMG_1540 244W9126
DCP_2467 244W9136 244W9138 244W9156
244W9164 IMG_1550 244W9168 244W9170

Back to Travel Album


Last updated 30-Jul-2004 Lazy Toad Ranch