{"id":732,"date":"2022-10-27T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:01:30","slug":"the-path-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"The Path of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winding its way along the rocky coast through lemon and olive groves, The Path of the Gods descends from the mountain town of Bomerano to the seaside in Positano.  With a name like that, this hike had a lot of built in expectations. Fortunately it didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started with a bus ride \u2019up\u2019 from our base in Amalfi. The winding roads are completely incompatible with full size busses, but the bus drivers pull it off with a casual attitude.  We were far from alone, almost the entire bus was filled with people with the same plan. In Bomerano we grabbed a panini for the hike and headed  to the start of the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-1024x780.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-736\" width=\"634\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-1024x780.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-768x585.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-1536x1169.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/E96537F8-C6CD-4BE5-B2CB-805A3100BE45-2048x1559.jpeg 2048w, 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How many steps you ask? 1960 if I counted correctly! Very happy we were headed down not up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-685x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-743\" width=\"512\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-685x1024.jpeg 685w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-768x1147.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-1028x1536.jpeg 1028w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-1371x2048.jpeg 1371w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-1200x1793.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/95D298DB-FCAF-4690-8287-64C4D2C752BD-scaled.jpeg 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Finally we arrived in Positano &#8211; built into the hillside and filled with an endless bounty of upscale shopping.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7B1EA59F-EC69-4837-A547-749E2FBAE39D-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winding its way along the rocky coast through lemon and olive groves, The Path of the Gods descends from the mountain town of Bomerano to the seaside in Positano. With a name like that, this hike had a lot of built in expectations. Fortunately it didn\u2019t disappoint. We started with a bus ride \u2019up\u2019 from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/?p=732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Path of the Gods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKeQ3-bO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}