Pictures of Mt. Vesuvius

The main sign to
the part of the volcano
you can hike. We arrived
too late in the day, and
were not able to hike
to the rim.


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You can see the crater rim
just over yonder, I was so
chagrinned as to not be
able to hike to see it.


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Again, another shot of
the upper fringes of
Vesuvius. In 69 AD, this
volcano destroyed both
Pompeii and Herculaneum.


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A view down over Naples
and the harbour aka
Mediterranean Sea.


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Another image down the
slopes of Mt. Vesuvius.

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