on The AMALFI DRIVE COAST

The AMALFI DRIVE

DIVIANA COSTA

Once you are in Sorrento, you will catch a bus to Amalfi that rides the Amalfi Drive and passes through all the towns, and ending up at the main square in Amalfi, but not before passing through Positano along the way. You can also take a ferry boat if you prefer it to the bus, but believe it or not, traveling along the famous Amalfi Drive is even more spectacular than going by boat. They are both wonderful ways to go, and I recommend trying both while on your trip. And if you are in a hurry, and or don’t wish to be in traffic, taking a boat from point to point is without question your best option.

   So back to that my first trip to Positano. Someone told me to get off at Meta and catch the Sita Blue Bus to get to Positano. I did just that. So I got off the train at the Meta Station, so I could pick up the Blue Bus from there. I had to wait, if I remember correctly for about 30 or 40 minutes before the bus came, so I waited at the little caffe by the train station. I had a fresh Orange Juice and some Gelato as I waited. The bus finally came, and I jumped on and sat back, and got what would be the most magnificently breathtakingly beautiful bus ride of my entire life. Certainly, up to that point in my life at 23 years of age at the time. As it turns out, it still is after traveling the World three times over. That bus ride is still the most spectacular ride of ever seen.

    The bus made its way high up above the sea, on a road that straddles sheer cliffs. The bus twisted its way from Meta on its way to Positano, and then would continue to Praiano, and finally on to Amalfi. The views of the sea, the cliffs, and the towns that we passed, were beyond wo. Riding the bus was a bit scary at first, as the bus navigated through tight hairpin turns beeping its loud horn, and as it made those tight turns it looked as though the front of the bus was going to go over the edge of the cliff of the road, and that the bus would drive off the road and crash on to the cliffs and into the sea more than 1,000 feet below. Yes this was a Wild Ride and I was filled with mixed emotions the beauty, and it seemed dangerous at the same time as each and every turn the fear of crashing over the side seemed oh so very real. This supposed danger of the drive mixed with such incredible beauty made for quite the emotional roller coaster. If you take this ride, you will never forget it. I haven’t.   

    As the bus makes its way and whether you are on a bus or driving in a car, the combination of the Sea against the blue sky, the cliffs, the Saracen Watch Towers, hotels and little towns, and everything there, else there, will completely captivate you. You peer into the distance at small towns that jut out into the Azur Sea, with the backdrop of a lovely Deep Blue Summer Sky, along with bright colored Mediterranean Flowers of every type, this is what you’ll see on the Amalfi Drive, widely consider the World’s Most Beautiful Road of all.

    If you’re going from Sorrento on your way to Positano and Amalfi, make sure to get a seat on the right side of the bus for the best views and the ability to snap some memorable photos and video of this most spectacular bus ride of your life. If you are heading from the town of Amalfi or Positano towards Sorrento, do the opposite and get a seat on the left side of the bus. Sit back and enjoy the ride, for it’s the most beautiful you will ever see.

ATRANI

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