We finished things off in Naples by visiting Mt. Vesuvius – the volcano that was responsible for the end of Pompeii in 79AD, and last erupted in 1944. It is the world’s most dangerous active volcano with an estimated 600,000 people living within a 12km radius, and a further 2 million just up the road in Naples.
They think that the shape of the volcano would have changed dramatically over the years with each eruption, so the version that we saw would most likely be very different to that which buried Pompeii.
It was amazing to peer over the edge and into the massive crater and see steam rising up from the magna chamber some 8kms below.
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