We got off our ferry tonight (where some people got attacked by bed bugs) at around 8 and got on the four hour bus ride to the city of Pompei. It is one of the oldest Roman cities that was destroyed by the volcano Vesuvius. The city was preserved because the ash covered the site before the lava had a chance to completely destroy everything. The city of Pompei was discovered accidentally and a lot of the architecture, mosaic floors, marble floors and wall paintings are surprisingly still in tact. The had a main temple dedicated to Apollo, a large common area where they would sell food and store wine and olive oil. We also had the chance to walk through a fairly well preserved house and bath room. The men back then had three option, hot tubs, steam rooms, and cold baths where as the women only got a cold and hot bath. Along with bath houses and market rooms we walked through their own version of the red light district. There was one large room with many small rooms within all containing stone beds. The walls in these rooms are covered with erotic paintings with different sexual positions much like the kama sutra.
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