Hiking the Cinque Terre Trails

 

It is timeless to walk in Italy like some kind of poetry, it reads line by line. Nothing can be more than in the paths of Cinque Terre. These five villages Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore are located along the Ligurian coast and are connected by rugged tracks that are facing the sea. Their upbringing is like entering into a water color portrait because it swings into various colors with each movement.

 I would begin my walk quite early in the day, when the morning-mist would be rising off the precipices. It was silvery sea water, and the atmosphere was lightly salty-lemon. 

The best known is the one leading between Monterosso and Vernazza, and well it deserves it; it contains a combination of steep ascents, narrow steps of stone, and sceneries so beautiful that you are almost mesmerized by them. I went through small gardens as well, grapevines hanging around wooden stakes, and locals returning with baskets of the products along the impossibly steep streets.

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 And, as Vernazza came in sight, and that stream of overflowing houses falling into a small harbor-- I had that sort of wonder that traveling alone will give. I sat down in the piazza awhile, eating a slice of focaccia and a cold drink, and was looking at boats resting listlessly on the water. Time on Cinque Terre does not pass like it does in other places, but lengthens and decelerates, as though the waves dictated everything.

 

The following part, between Vernazza and Corniglia, was less noisy. The mob was dispersed, and the only thing to be heard was cicada and the gravel in the feet. I would occasionally turn back, to determine whence I had come out of the blue ocean, the hills and the narrow road twining off the hills.