Pompeii is historically rich town and is best known for being buried in hot volcanic ash and mud when Mt 
Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago. The town and its townsfolk were literally buried alive and thanks to a discovery in the 16th century has undergone a series of excavations (work is still ongoing) to reveal ancient Rome as it was back then. Thanks to the burial the detail of the ancient city has been maintained in exquisite detail. Therefore aside from the ruins you can also see people, animals, and houseware also frozen in time.
Pompeii is about half an hour’s drive from the centre of Naples. We had opted to take a guided tour of the place because, although you can walk it yourself and there is a more than adequate map that can be bought for a few euro, nothing brings history alive like a live telling. And lets face it these days I have a very short attention span!
Some of the more interesting sites included:
– the large ampitheatre,
– the Forum (public marketplace)
– Via dei Sepolcri (one of the main thoroughfares where you can see the ruts worn in by the horse carts. Clearly this was not a walking city but there are raised stone blocks to help people get across the street though apparently they also functioned as old-fashioned speed bumps)
– Lupanar (an ancient brothel. Watch out for the pornographic frescoes which showed what you would get in the respective rooms)
The other things in detail to watch out for as you’re walking around in Pompeii are:
– the small tiles in the grounds which reflect the moon light or candle light to aid people when walking at night
– the ph@lluses carved into the stones of the walls or in frescoes. Though you may think that they signified fertility and of course s3x (often pointing the way to the nearest brothel) depending on how it was presented it could also be a sign for good luck.
You could easily spend a whole day at Pompeii which is stunningly rich in history but its hot (our tour guide 
came prepared with her oriental umbrella) and there is hardly any shelter so it could get tiring very quickly. Walking around is not very easy either on the dusty cobblestones which are surprisingly exhausting to navigate. Not to mention the threat that Mt Vesuvius could blow again without warning! Ha ha.
Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago. The town and its townsfolk were literally buried alive and thanks to a discovery in the 16th century has undergone a series of excavations (work is still ongoing) to reveal ancient Rome as it was back then. Thanks to the burial the detail of the ancient city has been maintained in exquisite detail. Therefore aside from the ruins you can also see people, animals, and houseware also frozen in time. 
came prepared with her oriental umbrella) and there is hardly any shelter so it could get tiring very quickly. Walking around is not very easy either on the dusty cobblestones which are surprisingly exhausting to navigate. Not to mention the threat that Mt Vesuvius could blow again without warning! Ha ha.