Jason’s Big Fat Funfest

After seven weeks exploring the gorgeous landcscapes and breathtaking scenery of Costal Italy as well as the Austrian / Swiss Alps, my mind is left with several indellable images of nature’s bounding grandeur and undeniable majesty. Perhaps the most awe inspiringly vivid scene I choose to re-frequent, is Cinque Terre, Italy.

Located just an hour and a half south of Porto Fino (by train), Cinque Terre is Italy’s ‘lesser known’ and thus, ‘lesser touched’, port town of the western Italian coast. Discovered at the turn of the 20th Century by a group of British sailors, Cinque Terre is still amazingly unrefined for the traveller who seeks something … pure.

The hikes are intense and amazing — In the northern region, you make your way up some very vertical inclines, weaving in and out of heavily forested mountaintops to occasionally catch a glimpse of naked sheets of raw rock falling straight into the Medeterranian. Various tangent rock formations give way to inlets and coves which make for some of the most picturesque and isolated lagoons man has ever envisioned.

Rio Majore defines Cinque Terre’s southernmost border; this port town boasts of the ‘Via de Amore’, or ‘Love Walk’ — a less steep, but nonethelses beautiful hike, which skirts the edge of a vertical wall of rock descending straight into the aqua-marine, crystaline waters below. High atmospheric pressures between the mountains and the sea ensure that the coastal skyline is constantly clear and blue. It seems as though a mythical power guarantees the purity and constant beauty of this scene.

Between the two above described northern and southernmost towns lie three more hidden treasures, which, rather than describe, this Italian traveller feels compelled to invite readers to go explore for themselves.

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