Rome - 7th to 9th Apr

Woohoo~ We're in Rome!!

Arrived at Camping Tiber Village, our place of lodging.

Everything about this hostel is excellent except for its location...

As you can see in the first picture, its located in Prima Porta, somewhere

slightly out of town which makes transport a lil more inconvenient

However, the place more than makes up for its lack of

accessibility with its excellent customer service & facilities.

They upgraded us to these twin-sharing rooms with attached

bathrooms for free!

Here's the place outside the bar/restaurant

Looks pretty good huh!

The food was reasonably priced and this beef lasagne

was really really good!!

I really like taking such shots of greenery + the sky

Its no wonder windows took something similar as its

default wallpaper =)

The Colosseum! Remember Gladiator?

Its really a magnificent sight, you've gotta walk around

the place to get a feel of how huge this place is...

What made me wonder most was how pple built these structures

long long ago, even when they had no cranes and drills, etc

Sure, they had tons and tons of slaves... but still... 

Really impressive, wish i could have been here to see it

in all its glory, back in the olden days...

Arch of constantine

Inside the colosseum, you can see the rows of columns.

In the middle is this oval shaped platform (its cut into half, to

show you what's below the platform, where they used to keep the

gladiators, wild beasts and what not...)

Trevi Fountain @ night

Really beautiful... again goes to show how much $$ and effort

they put into beautifying their city.. almost every roundabout in Rome

is decorated to such an extent. Imagine every junction in Singapore filled

with statue of raffles & other great men! haha

Colosseum @ night

I must say that the attractions here look really awesome

at night... it was also a good chance to test out the slow synchro

function of my camera + play with the shutter delay

Here's palatine hill

**Important tip!

Go to palatine hill to buy your tickets cos it'll save

you alot of time... the queue at the colosseum is super long!

Haha we had this crazy idea to ride around Rome,

so we rented scooters... at first we wanted to get Vespas, 

but somehow ended up with these instead.

It was really a extreme experience scooting on the roads, 

esp at night! Crazy traffic!! Haha i didnt have a scooter/bike license either,

but all you needed was a car driving license to rent one of these, so it was

still legal. It was really very fun (but dangerous), will definitely try it again

if i ever re-visit Rome haha

Vittorio Emmanuel (something...)

The Pantheon

Oculus of the Pantheon (the roof)

Castel Sant' Angelo during the daytime

 

Vatican City!

Really nice architecture

And nice fountains too!

St Peter's Basilica, Rome

As night falls, the pics look even nicer

Love taking pictures of the sky =)

The silhouette of vatican city looks pretty amazing as well

Castel Sant' Angelo @ night

Playing with the different shutter delays

Vatican City @ night, what can i say??

its really a sight to behold!

I learnt this from my sisters!

I'm still a level 2 camwhore, testing out slow synchro

that they taught me, haha its fun =)