Amalfi Coast multi activity vacations

Hiking

Most multi activity trips on the Amalfi coast center on hiking – it's simply too steep and rocky to go any way except on foot. The towns on the coast, which rise vertically up the cliffs, seem to be built on a foundation of stairways, and when you rise above them you find the ‘Path of the Gods’, an unmissable trail along the very top off the cliffs, from which you can see the whole coast. There are other, shadier walks through valleys. This time, it isn’t lemon farmers, but the coast’s old paper industry you’ll see, as you follow tumbling streams that used to power the old paper mills in the Valle dei Mulini. Walk durations run between three and six hours.

Sights

No trip here would be complete without taking on the area’s crowning glory – Mount Vesuvius rises over a thousand metres above the Bay of Naples, several hundred metres higher than even the ‘Path of the Gods’. You can now walk around the rim of its crater with a certified volcanologist – a feat that wouldn’t have been advisable two thousand years ago, when the volcano famously erupted and destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii is vital viewing today, because of its impressively preserved Roman homes, the best of which might be the evocatively named Villa of Mysteries, which has frescoes that look freshly painted, and provides a rare window into domestic Roman life.