ROME day 4 last day...

Third time at Vatican City to complete it..
the all famous Vatican Musuem and Sistine CHapel!

We went there before the opening time to see a long long queue, can't seeing the front of the line at all. the people slowly slowly nudge forward.
After 2 hours of waiting in the sun, we finally get in !!
Sixiu, cindy and Ana have to shift their train timings to get home back cos the wait was so long!!


the ceiling in the Vatican is so so COOL!
I walked around 2 corridors of this kind of ceiling, thinking that it is white casted sculptures stuck on the ceiling. .. and the end..
someone told me that it is PAINTED ON! they look so so realistic!!


Many many famous paintings in it...
I have to swallow the information from hueyying's eyewitness guide jus before going in to fully appreciate the paintings! Mainly to see Michaelangelo's and Raphael's paintings...


I FINALLY GET TO SEE THIS~




last few pictures in ROME... very very interesting staircase..

last picture before saying goodbye!... :O)


the end...

ROME day 3

Vatican ONLY...
Today we revisted the Vatican once again to go into the St Peter's basilica (Basilica S. Pietro) itself,
since we only found it last evening and never have the chance to enter.

the famous red curtained window where the pope stands and waves at his people.. :O)


Inside the basilica.. MAGNIFICIENT! no photos or videos can capture its grandeur accurately at all.. I m serious!!! Every corner of it is worth a picture. So i will take one, then i will look in the camera and think "hey, this is not what it is like in real life!" just can't do it..


After staying in the basilica for darn darn long.. we saw 2 queues at the door.
One to visit the tombs of the popes. the other to visit the cupola. The cupola? we have no idea what it is like.. so we just queued. ha..
In the end, this was a decision i will never regret for my lifetime!!!
We have to climb 551 steps to go here!!!! for 4 euros only!!


Up and close to see the mosaics on the dome..
and panoramic view of the Vatican city and Rome.. SPECTACULAR...





Each sent a postcard back home..


ha....:)


The day ended with sitting by a street outside Vatican eating our paninis, and watching how the negros and indians who are selling their stuff illegally along the street run up and down it to run away for the police...

Scenery near the street.

ROME day 2

16 Euros for a touristy bus which allows u to hop on and off whenever you like at all the places of interest. Sounds like a good deal.. with explanation in many languages somemore..


First stop, a river with a tiny island in it..


Piazza del Popole. can't rem the history of it.. didn't spend too much time there


Spanish STEPS! one of the romantic spots..
too bad there were too many people on the steps, hardly any space to walk.
We didn't climb the steps at all.. :O(


Trevi Fountain.. it's magnificent! the combination of sculptures and water..
we each threw a coin in the fountain and made a wish... :O)


VATICAN! our favourite! so amazing when we first see it on the bus.. surreal

ROME day 1

A final picture before we set off for ROME early in the morning!
of cos not forgetting to eat our final delicious donut before going!



will never forget this...
carrying our heavy bags, we took the bus to the train terminal.
we have the ticket with us but we didn't convalidate it (insert it into the machine to show when we start taking the first bus).
3 bus conductors came and we were being fineD!!!!
supposed to be 34euros each for 6 of us. they being "nice" fined 2 of us instead and we shared the cost.. 11 euros each!... ARGH... WE BOUGHT THE TICKETS... so dumb!

Shaking off the despair, we arrived at ROME...




Rome is totally enjoyable as well. The streets are more orderly than Napoli definitely, and every corner u turn, there is something new to see! AMAZInG!
so, one is constantly amused as he/she walks along the streets of ROME!


Whenever we walked till too tired, it will be silly posing time!




COLOSSEUM! ok.. we can proclaim that we come ITALY before liao!
we joined in the long long queue to get into the colosseum.. 11 Euros..






sitting by the colosseum waiting for dinner time to come.. :O)
i totally love the colosseum ring!!! 75 Euros!
ha.. buy me one and i will marry u for 1 day.. haha


Colosseum by night.. test of camera and photography skills.. ha
some smart indians start selling tripod beside the colosseum. haaa..


Too much to absorb for 1 day.. but no time to lose! more to come tml as we take the tour bus!!!

NAPOLI day 2

We woke up all excited to eat our breakfast..
I ate the best donut in the whole world! warm and soft in the side!
free flow of cereal, milk and coffee!

Today's agenda was to go to CAPRI ISLANDS!
An island off the coast of Naples. I figure that it is where the rich italians buy a holiday house here and stay over the holiday. VERY STUNNINGLY PRETTY...
BREATHTAKING..



We took a boat ride (10Euros?) around the island to visit some caves...
the caves have some blue light coming beneath the water..
the boatman was explaining that it is due to the rocks not resting on the bed of the sea and thus allow the sunlight to be reflect upwards creating these blue waters.



After nuahing thru the boat ride, we climbed up the capri island to find the centro of it , where all the shops are... we climbed and climbed...

and finally... :O)
realised the people here love lemons a lot.. a wide variety of lemon produce..
from lemon wine, to chocolate, to sweets, .. all kinds..


1,2,3,4 ... ha.. consecutive poses everywhere.


Last look at beautiful capri.. i wan to come here again!


Visited Naples itself a bit before leaving the next day..
Went to watch a procession cos it's Easter! interesting..


tired but still high spirited, we planned for Rome and went to sleep.. :O)