Mt Vesuvius - the Most Dangerous Volcano On Earth

After visiting Pompeii, we took our lives in our own hands and took the ridiculous trek up Mt Vesuvius. It is a crazy drive up the volcano with a short hike at the end to the peak. Driving up a volcano, fighting European tour buses along numerous steep switch backs is quite a silly undertaking.



Unfortunately, by the time we reached the top it was completely clouded in with no visibility. On a clear day you can see the entire town of Naples, the island of Capri and the mountains of Albania.

Mt Vesuvius is considered the most dangerous volcano on Earth. It had a history of erupting about every 40 years, but has not erupted since 1944. It is of course, the volcano that famously buried the town of Pompeii in 79 AD along with 3 other nearby towns. 

Presently there is no red lava to be seen on Mt Vesuvius, but there are many visible petrified flows of hardened black lava to be seen, and the volcano does emit small amounts of steam. In the pictures you can see the petrified lava flows in the valleys. They look like rivers are grey in color.