Private Tour: Half Day Trip Excursion to Herculaneum

Sightseeing  :  Italy  :  Campania And Naples  :  Naples  :  Private Sightseeing Tours

Have the option of taking this tour with a guide or you may choose take the tour on your own and only have a personal driver to take you there and back. Depart from your hotel or cruise-ship to take a tour of the ancient town of Herculaneum. Stop at the entrance to the Herculaneum ruins where you'll meet (if this is the selected tour option) your licensed tour guide, otherwise, after having bought a ticket you'll enjoy the  ruins on your own. After the visit you will be picked-up and driven back to your accommodation or cruise-ship. Guilty of decimating Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79, Mt Vesuvius looms over the Bay of Naples like a beautiful, silent menace. Stopped in their tracks by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Herculaneum and Pompeii offer the best look anywhere at what life in Rome must have been like around 2,000 years ago.Begin the day with a pickup from your accommodation or the cruise port at approximately 8:30am. Stop to visit the ruins for roughly 2-hours. Be driven back to your accommodation or cruise-ship. Upstaged by Pompeii’s ancient offerings, the Ruins of Herculaneum have a wealth of archaeological finds, from ancient advertisements and stylish mosaics, to carbonised furniture and terror-struck skeletons. Indeed, this superbly conserved Roman fishing town of 4000 inhabitants is smaller and easier to navigate than Pompeii. Unlikely Pompeii the AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius saw it submerged in a 16m-thick sea of mud that essentially fossilised the city. This meant that even delicate items, such as furniture and clothing, were discovered remarkably well preserved.Tragically, the inhabitants didn’t fare so well; thousands of people tried to escape by boat but were suffocated by the volcano’s poisonous gases.