An island lover's sacred dream is never too greedy when his destination is Capri. This is my second time to the old country that never fails to impress. As i write this, i'm still wobbling in the hangover of Capri.
Me and my travel bud, wearing our adventure skin, took off bending our light towards Napoli. There are convenient shuttles from airport to port in Napoli which we took to reach Mollo Beverello.
Humongous ships greeted us in the port. As high as skyscrapers the very sight of huge piece of iron floating in water was amazing to see. We hopped into our ferry, it slowly drifted away from land taking us deep into Mediterranean. We danced to the tunes of waves as Naples vanished out of sight. After an hour, We see to the left there were no islands close by, we see to the right there were none again, and all of a sudden as if a freaking huge pebble popped out of the ocean we could see a gorgeous trail of cliffs so close to us in the front. it came as sudden delight to our senses and there were smiles all around.
We had reached Capri-port Marina Grande.
To the right of the exit, there were ticket counters for bus, we had to reach Annacapri from the port. Anyone who comes here would not fail to admire the concept of small buses tailored to drive through small roads winding uphill and down.
We had to ascend from Marina Grande and with every turn the bus took we got insane view of hills stretching its arms inside the sea. A 20 min ride brought us to the pretty village. At the main street of Annacapri, We dropped our jaws cursing the people who made that street, for not letting us find words to describe how pretty the place really was. It was art, fashion and quaint architecture all speaking in unison.
Capri had surpassed our imagination already.
The paths were tiny and the entire place was like a maze. We took some time to find out the house we had booked, succedding finally. After refreshing quickly we were back into the maze. On the way, we could not ignore a single shop in the street, they were beautifully desinged asking us to look at them again and again. This is the main street in Annacapri captivating our attention and not letting us go. It was colourful and artistic.
We decided to walk from Annacapri down to Marina Grande, mind you its quite some distance. There was a separate path for hikers, cutting through hills and running along boulders. It was already dark and the path was dimly lit. We were getting a fabulous night view of Capri from the top, carpet of sparkling lights spread all over. For about 40 mins we were talking some awesome shit throughout the hike and made our way down to the port. It gave us a great feeling when we looked back at the trail that we came through.
We learnt that Piazzetta is another 30 mins of walk uphill from Marina Grande, switched the gears and off we went. With little sweat dripping from our foreheads and little hunger growling inside our stomach we reached piazzetta. The entire walk was superb and i could say it was really one of the highlights for us in the trip.
Piazetta is the city center, it has all the big garment brands that you can imagine. Its a place made to people watch and be watched. We strolled absorbing the atmosphere chit chating, people watching and found a lovely place where we had our first Gelato in our trip. Slurping it, moved around in search of a nice restaurant to fill our growling stomach. After some confused contemplation between which restuarant to choose, we had a delightful Italian dinner in a fabulous restaurant.
Small bus got us back to Annacapri from Piazetta.
Capri's Reflections of our imaginations were prettrier than the imaginations itself only giving us hints of procrastinating its true exhibition of beauty.
I'm sure Sun was in the same eagerness as we were to show ourselves to Capri. After a quick breakfast, we were asked by a fellow tourist if we were willing to take open roof top cab with her until port, with no delay in deciding....hell yeah!! Breathtaking views along with morning sunlight tickling our senses got us all geared up. But to our unexpected uninvited shocker came a message that Blue Grotto was closed due to rough waves. Each morning they check if the waves a conducive for boats to enter the Grotto, it wasn't so on that day. We opted for an island tour and started to float in clear waters.
Mountains and clear waters are made for each other. You cannot fit nature in a picture, You should have seen cliffs in harmony with clear waters embracing sunlight with your own eyes.
It was a bliss standing in the corner of the boat watching them at right distance.
We came across the entrance of Blue Grotto, Green Grotto,light house, the villages in different part of the island with one main attraction waiting to descend upon us.
Boat went into small pockets of tiny bay's and cliffs in front of us were shielding the view that it awaits to dispense as our eyes were straying over the prospect.
It was an glorious sight as cliffs moved out of frame and The Faraglioni stood in the middle of clear waters. It took time for me to grasp the moment completely as i had never seen such insane form of nature right in front of my eyes.
We were in the sea, I could a cliff popped out, theres a door in the cliff and we were about to enter that door. It was fantasy getting translated into reality. And my friend, she was in abysmal pleasent shock looking at high drama happening around.
We went through the door of Faraglioni and completed the perimeter of the island.
We took a Funicular ride to Piazzetta from the port. Piazetta gave fabulous views and was full of people.
We can see many places where art blends with architecture but this is one place where art and architecure blends with fashion. There is fashion in the way its built and that is an unimaginably rare phenomenon.
After a slow peaceful lunch, we planned to go to the chairlift in Annacapri that takes us to Mt. Solaro. Line of chairs moving one behind another hanging in mid air. It was so playful yet so conscious in what it was giving us. It was a joyful experience sitting in chair in midair and moving slowly uphill.
Mt. Solaro is the highest point in Capri displaying the gorgeous Faraglioni from as high a bird can see. We trekked down the hill from the top to Annacapri in little jungle like path to our house for a break.
Back to the streets for some shopping and strolling. Back to Piazetta, some gelato and checking out restaurant for dinner.
We hoped that sea would be kind to us the next day to let us inside the Grotto.
We were ready early the next morning to check out Villa San Michele. The street came to life with crowd pouring in. After the visit, we vacated our house and dropped our bags near Marina Grande. Now then....We took a smaller boat taking us vertically much closer to sea, horizontally much closer to the mountains and emotionally much closer to our existence in Capri.
We waited for an hour outside the Grotto, saw many boats taking turns one by one to enter the little wonder. It was finally our turn to go. We hopped into the boat and the skipper rowed the boat in front of the entrance. We ducked a little while entering and the magic started to unfold. It was unbelievable what we were witnessing.
The small aperture through which we entered squeezed sunlight and torched it to the waters lighting the floor completely blue. Capri now had trespassed its modesty and exhibited its flamboyance ferociously. We circled the cave as skipper explained about the Grotto. No photo can truly justify the sight inside the cave. We came out with numbness to reality experiencing love at first sight. This is how petals in mist would feel. Soaked in bliss.
We raced back to Marina Grande to take island tour again. We wanted to sit back and enjoy without taking pictures this time. An hour in the sea inhaling the gushing feel. By the time we finished the ride, i could feel the undercurrent of laughter that the place was emitting for its triump in winning us. We had some time left before our ride back to Naples. Visited Augustes Gardens and returned back in time. Spent sometime near the port, there was a small beach kind of area where we stood staring at the loyality of blue diamond that keeps coming to caress the shores feet. It was tough to get into the ship leaving Capri.
Got back to Naples having nice little conversation, reached our hostel and decided to go out. Our trip was not yet over, at 10pm we could see lot of people in the busy shopping street. It was here where Pizza was born, we would'nt forgive ourselves if we get out without tasting Pizza here.
Each minute in Capri were droplets of desire dripping on crystals of ashtonishment dissolving our yearning for island aura.
We walked, we sailed, trekked, took a open cab, took small bus, took boats, ships, flights, it was a full circle of a highly satisfying trip.
The craziness has melted and concealed passion now remains for Capri.
-UR
uday.s7@gmail.com
Me and my travel bud, wearing our adventure skin, took off bending our light towards Napoli. There are convenient shuttles from airport to port in Napoli which we took to reach Mollo Beverello.
Humongous ships greeted us in the port. As high as skyscrapers the very sight of huge piece of iron floating in water was amazing to see. We hopped into our ferry, it slowly drifted away from land taking us deep into Mediterranean. We danced to the tunes of waves as Naples vanished out of sight. After an hour, We see to the left there were no islands close by, we see to the right there were none again, and all of a sudden as if a freaking huge pebble popped out of the ocean we could see a gorgeous trail of cliffs so close to us in the front. it came as sudden delight to our senses and there were smiles all around.
We had reached Capri-port Marina Grande.
To the right of the exit, there were ticket counters for bus, we had to reach Annacapri from the port. Anyone who comes here would not fail to admire the concept of small buses tailored to drive through small roads winding uphill and down.
We had to ascend from Marina Grande and with every turn the bus took we got insane view of hills stretching its arms inside the sea. A 20 min ride brought us to the pretty village. At the main street of Annacapri, We dropped our jaws cursing the people who made that street, for not letting us find words to describe how pretty the place really was. It was art, fashion and quaint architecture all speaking in unison.
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| Main Street in AnnaCapri |
Capri had surpassed our imagination already.
The paths were tiny and the entire place was like a maze. We took some time to find out the house we had booked, succedding finally. After refreshing quickly we were back into the maze. On the way, we could not ignore a single shop in the street, they were beautifully desinged asking us to look at them again and again. This is the main street in Annacapri captivating our attention and not letting us go. It was colourful and artistic.
We decided to walk from Annacapri down to Marina Grande, mind you its quite some distance. There was a separate path for hikers, cutting through hills and running along boulders. It was already dark and the path was dimly lit. We were getting a fabulous night view of Capri from the top, carpet of sparkling lights spread all over. For about 40 mins we were talking some awesome shit throughout the hike and made our way down to the port. It gave us a great feeling when we looked back at the trail that we came through.
We learnt that Piazzetta is another 30 mins of walk uphill from Marina Grande, switched the gears and off we went. With little sweat dripping from our foreheads and little hunger growling inside our stomach we reached piazzetta. The entire walk was superb and i could say it was really one of the highlights for us in the trip.
Piazetta is the city center, it has all the big garment brands that you can imagine. Its a place made to people watch and be watched. We strolled absorbing the atmosphere chit chating, people watching and found a lovely place where we had our first Gelato in our trip. Slurping it, moved around in search of a nice restaurant to fill our growling stomach. After some confused contemplation between which restuarant to choose, we had a delightful Italian dinner in a fabulous restaurant.
Small bus got us back to Annacapri from Piazetta.
Capri's Reflections of our imaginations were prettrier than the imaginations itself only giving us hints of procrastinating its true exhibition of beauty.
I'm sure Sun was in the same eagerness as we were to show ourselves to Capri. After a quick breakfast, we were asked by a fellow tourist if we were willing to take open roof top cab with her until port, with no delay in deciding....hell yeah!! Breathtaking views along with morning sunlight tickling our senses got us all geared up. But to our unexpected uninvited shocker came a message that Blue Grotto was closed due to rough waves. Each morning they check if the waves a conducive for boats to enter the Grotto, it wasn't so on that day. We opted for an island tour and started to float in clear waters.
 |
| Island Tour |
Mountains and clear waters are made for each other. You cannot fit nature in a picture, You should have seen cliffs in harmony with clear waters embracing sunlight with your own eyes.
It was a bliss standing in the corner of the boat watching them at right distance.
We came across the entrance of Blue Grotto, Green Grotto,light house, the villages in different part of the island with one main attraction waiting to descend upon us.
Boat went into small pockets of tiny bay's and cliffs in front of us were shielding the view that it awaits to dispense as our eyes were straying over the prospect.
It was an glorious sight as cliffs moved out of frame and The Faraglioni stood in the middle of clear waters. It took time for me to grasp the moment completely as i had never seen such insane form of nature right in front of my eyes.
We were in the sea, I could a cliff popped out, theres a door in the cliff and we were about to enter that door. It was fantasy getting translated into reality. And my friend, she was in abysmal pleasent shock looking at high drama happening around.
We went through the door of Faraglioni and completed the perimeter of the island.
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| Majestic Faraglioni |
We took a Funicular ride to Piazzetta from the port. Piazetta gave fabulous views and was full of people.
We can see many places where art blends with architecture but this is one place where art and architecure blends with fashion. There is fashion in the way its built and that is an unimaginably rare phenomenon.
After a slow peaceful lunch, we planned to go to the chairlift in Annacapri that takes us to Mt. Solaro. Line of chairs moving one behind another hanging in mid air. It was so playful yet so conscious in what it was giving us. It was a joyful experience sitting in chair in midair and moving slowly uphill.
 |
| Chair Lift to Mt. Solaro |
Mt. Solaro is the highest point in Capri displaying the gorgeous Faraglioni from as high a bird can see. We trekked down the hill from the top to Annacapri in little jungle like path to our house for a break.
Back to the streets for some shopping and strolling. Back to Piazetta, some gelato and checking out restaurant for dinner.
We hoped that sea would be kind to us the next day to let us inside the Grotto.
We were ready early the next morning to check out Villa San Michele. The street came to life with crowd pouring in. After the visit, we vacated our house and dropped our bags near Marina Grande. Now then....We took a smaller boat taking us vertically much closer to sea, horizontally much closer to the mountains and emotionally much closer to our existence in Capri.
We waited for an hour outside the Grotto, saw many boats taking turns one by one to enter the little wonder. It was finally our turn to go. We hopped into the boat and the skipper rowed the boat in front of the entrance. We ducked a little while entering and the magic started to unfold. It was unbelievable what we were witnessing.
The small aperture through which we entered squeezed sunlight and torched it to the waters lighting the floor completely blue. Capri now had trespassed its modesty and exhibited its flamboyance ferociously. We circled the cave as skipper explained about the Grotto. No photo can truly justify the sight inside the cave. We came out with numbness to reality experiencing love at first sight. This is how petals in mist would feel. Soaked in bliss.
We raced back to Marina Grande to take island tour again. We wanted to sit back and enjoy without taking pictures this time. An hour in the sea inhaling the gushing feel. By the time we finished the ride, i could feel the undercurrent of laughter that the place was emitting for its triump in winning us. We had some time left before our ride back to Naples. Visited Augustes Gardens and returned back in time. Spent sometime near the port, there was a small beach kind of area where we stood staring at the loyality of blue diamond that keeps coming to caress the shores feet. It was tough to get into the ship leaving Capri.
Got back to Naples having nice little conversation, reached our hostel and decided to go out. Our trip was not yet over, at 10pm we could see lot of people in the busy shopping street. It was here where Pizza was born, we would'nt forgive ourselves if we get out without tasting Pizza here.
Each minute in Capri were droplets of desire dripping on crystals of ashtonishment dissolving our yearning for island aura.
We walked, we sailed, trekked, took a open cab, took small bus, took boats, ships, flights, it was a full circle of a highly satisfying trip.
The craziness has melted and concealed passion now remains for Capri.
-UR
uday.s7@gmail.com
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