Friday 4 October 2013

Amalfi Coast Day 2 - Capri boat tour

The hotel booked the Capri tour for us.   Here's the description we had: 
It is a complete excursion along the Amalfi Coast and Capri Island. You start at 9.30 am and finish at 6.00 pm. On the way to Capri you see many places along the coastline ( Sophia Loren's Villa, the Natural Arch, the Emerald Grotto, the lovely bay of Conca de Marini, the Fjord of Furore, Praiano and Positano from the sea) You stop in Natural Reserve of Punta Campanella and Li Galli Island, famous for the myth of Ulysse's Syrens. When you arrive in Capri you make a tour of Island (Blue,White,Green and Coral Grottoes, Punta Carena, Marina Piccola, Faraglioni's rocks and many places.)
Have 4 hours free time on the island. When you back on board you stop in Faraglioni and Positano for take a swimming if you want, and back to Amalfi at 6.00 pm. The price is 75 Euro per person and the price included drinks and towels on board and tax for live one day Capri. 
The only charged extra are the tickets for visit Emerald Grotto( 5 Euro per person) and Blue Grotto in Capri( 12,50 Euro per person)because are privates caves. The boat is a yacht (12 mt, toilet, changing room, two sundeck, two showers, cover sitting area) maximum 10 people on board.

The other option to Capri 
We really enjoyed our trip :) would highly recommend it! 

Here's our boat on the right with a sunbed at the back 

Bye Bye Amalfi



Emerald Grotto
- quite a small grotto, still very magnificent! 




We went on towards Capri
Green Grotto 


We were going to go to the blue grotto but it was closed :(

We were then dropped off at Marina Piccolo: 
- very pretty little pebble beach! you can see the faraglioni from here



Lazy little cat by the cafe

It was quite a nice but tiring walk up to the Capri town

Capri town was veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy packed! 
We didn't really want to spend too much time comparing / looking for a decent restaurant as we don't have much time there.  So we just chose one randomly.
The restaurant we went was called Ristorante Isidoro.
Don't go! The food and service were so-so.
I'm sure there are better restaurants there.
In fact, we saw a restaurant on the way to Arco Naturale with amazing view
wish we went there instead

We followed the sunflower guide to walk to the Arco Naturale from the funicular station.

So beautiful :) 

Arco Naturale from the sea! couldn't believe how much we have climbed!


Beautiful flowers on the way

On the way back, we went by the faraglioni and went through the arch :)


White grotto


Bye Bye Capri

We went past the pretty Positano


Apparently people dive from this bridge at Furore! 

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