April 13- Agrigento

Up early at the Airbnb in Siracusa and we were on the road around 9:30 after picking up our car rental. We head out toward The Necropolis of Pantalica to do a hike where we will see burial holes in the gorge from The 7 to the 13 th centuries BC. It is amazing. It takes about one and a half hours to get there in very twisty and narrow roads. There are bikers and sheep sharing the road with us.

Sheep being herded along to go grazing

Bikers with bigger and harder calf’s than our quads.

Narrow route all the way in.

We get to our destination around 10:30. It looks like you pay to walk to the gorge. The guy at the desk asks where we are from. When we tell him Canada, he says ok, you can go. It’s free for the good guys..

River in the gorge

Tombs used to bury the dead thousands of years ago

André and Ron walking over the stream to check out a cave

Hole dug out to bury the dead. There were hundreds of them in this area 

Worn out trail to get to the bottom of the gorge

Three amigos 

Difficult to see but there were tombs way up in the gorge. Another world mystery as to how they could scale down or up to make the tombs and then carry the dead there. 

We return from our hike ready to find a place to eat. Not much around so we end up driving another hour or more and we finally find a place around 2 pm. We leave there around 3 and make our way to Agrigento where we will spend two nights. The B&B is very nice. Unfortunately it is raining and we have to walk a ways from the parking area. We go for a walk in the rain anyways to visit a few churches, some open, some closed for the day. We go to a viewing area as we can see the sea from the top of the town. The B&B owners give us recommendations for a place to go for pre dinner  drinks and for good pizza. We find the first place around 7. Three of us have a Spritz and Ron has a red wine. They offer us 3 different tapas which turn out to be very good. At 8, we walk over the restaurant for our reservation. We each order a different pizza. Ron is the only one who finishes the whole thing. The rest of us have lunch tomorrow. We return to our rooms to use the bathroom then we go out for a short walk. We share two gelatos. Ron and I have strawberry and chocolate and André and Wendy have pistachio and strawberry. They are yummy. We return to our place around 10.