Amalfi Coast: Things To Do

Graze and people-watch The human parade is entrancing any time of the day or night, so get an outdoor table or wander with a gelato cone through the piazzas in Amalfi, Capri, or Ravello, or along Positano's beachside promenade.
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Hike to Ravello The challenging hike through the Valley of the Mills from Amalfi to Ravello is lined with lemon trees and passes the remnants of an 18th-century paper mill and a swimming hole fed by a spring waterfall. Amalfi to Ravello; 011-39-081-808-9613; www.giovis.com/Egiovis.htm
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Hop a boat to a secluded beach Go out on the pier in Amalfi and catch a launch to the pebbly Santa Croce Beach. Lounge chairs are for rent, and the two restaurants serve up excellent mussels and local white wine. Metro del Mare; www.metrodelmare.com
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Montepertuso The relatively easy hike from Positano to Montepertuso (hole in the mountain) is made up of steep stairways; the reward is the world's best ravioli at Donna Rosa. Donna Rosa; 97-99 Via Montepertuso; 011-39-089-811-806
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Sunbathe in Capri Capri's most beautiful place to sunbathe and swim is the La Fontelina bathing establishment. It's a hike down from Capri town's lovely Piazzetta, but beach chairs and mattresses are available for rent in view of the Faraglioni rocks. Località Faraglioni; 011-39-081-837-0845
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The Amalfi Drive This 30-mile, serpentine coastal road from Sorrento to Amalfi is only for the most confident of drivers – be sure to listen for honking: that means a local bus is about to round a blind corner. The drive between Amalfi and Ravello is similarly vertiginous. Sorrento to Amalfi
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