In ten days we will be leaving for Italia and I can not WAIT! After an overnight stop over in Dubai, our first Italian stop is Monterosso on the Cinque Terre.

Cinque Terre is a series of five small villages built into ridiculously steep cliffs along 18km of the Ligurian coast from Levante to La Spezia.  You can actually walk between each village along a 15th Century coastal path, the shortest walk taking approximately 3-4 hours and the longest 9 hours or more.

How glorious does this look?

Courtesy of Parco Nazionale Cinque Terre

The five villages are Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore.

I’ll be sure to tell you more about after we arrive.  I’m getting so excited now!