Cinqua Terre Pictures

The hike on the Cinqua Terre wasn't quite what I expected but turned out to be a very enjoyable day. We ended up meeting a guy from Seattle right in the beginning of the hike who joined us for the rest of the day. We made stops in pretty much every fishing village (there's 5 that make up the Cinqua Terre) to swim, have lunch, jump off rocks... It was beautiful at pretty much every point of the hike. The water was cold but felt very refreshing after the climbs in and out of each village. As you can see from some of the pictures, the villages are either right down by the water or perched up on a cliff's edge. We definitely got our workout for the day! Our first night we stayed in Montorosso, left our bags at the b&b and hiked to Riomaggiore where we stayed. The next day we started the hike back but made it to the third village and decided to take the train the rest of the way back to Montorosso.