Excellent place to walk and take a guided tour. I used a separate tour company that provided a 10…read moreperson tour with an actual archeologist. This site is in much better condition than Pompei so you get a better feeling for daily life and the layout of an ancient city. You can also take a self guided tour with a headset or just walk around by yourself. Prices are very reasonable. Parking is a breeze and cost 6€. Entrance ticket was €11 per person. The gift shop is excellent. Bathrooms near the gift shop and at the beginning do the tour. There are gift shops in the parking lot but they are very much tourist in nature. Save your parking ticket and take it with you. You pay when you leave BEFORE you get to your car.

Ercolano was the other city disseminated by the unforgiving lava of Mount Vesuvius. Archaeological…read moreexcavations are still underway. Neighboring this historical city is the modern city, literally across the street. A self-guided walking tour takes you down through layers of the ancient city. You can only imagine what was considered their sophisticated lifestyle in their time. The swampy waterways are open and visible; currently occupied by ribbiting frogs. There are hundreds of 'houses' where observers can mentally picture where one would place furniture if it were their place today. Unfortunately, these aren't habitable. Some homes restrict the number of entrants. Ancient art is everywhere: in the tiles, on the walls, along and within the building structures, and on some artifacts. All of these unintentionally left-behind... including their own remains of human bones.