Salento shines for those who know how to look!

Obviously those weren't the only pictures. This is part one as there are too many of them to post all together..

This is Gallipoli, the town we visited on our second vacation day.

Lecce.

MY FAVOURITE.

After Lecce we went to cool ourselves at the Lido degli Angeli.
The most beautiful sandy beach in Salento, in my opinion.

Probably the next day we stayed at our own beach in Pescoluse, which was really crowded, in the evening we went to visit a small town called Scorrano. The town itself was very poor-looking and we joked about how we had ended up in some kind of a third-world village.. But the reason we went there was because of the light-show there was about to be in the evening. It has been a tradition for centuries and it was... something undescrivable! The main piazza with its main linking streets were transformed into light galleries!!! While they lit the galleries they made some fireworks too and let me tell you, I think all the fireworks I've seen put together wouldn't be as great as the one we saw in Scorrano. Amazing. I have many pictures of it too, too many, so I'll probably dedicate a whole post to it.




At our home beach during the hours 9-13 and 16-19, I got suddenly feeling as if I was at the metro. You couldn't move without saying, "scusa, permesso!".. So what did I do ofcourse? I went on the beach from 13-16 (everybody was having pranzo and I skipped it), the worst hours ever but I didn't care as I wanted to get as tanned as possible.











On the road in the car, coastal area, towards Santa Maria di Leuca.




I loved the landscape there.. and also the villas, they were so romantic!



This is the Adriatic riviera. This coast is full of caves and natural thermal pools, as you can see from the pictures below. I liked it a lot there..































This is Porto Miggiano, seen from the road (in the car). One of the ten most beautiful FREE "beaches" in Salento. It was breath-takingly beautiful!!!







Like a paradise.. until.. this:




We went just for a swim but there were people who stayed there for a whole day!!! It was so uncomfortable.. poor them.










My little sister!!
She managed to swim greatly in the water with her "equipment". She just turned three while we were in Salento, a Cancer she is!










Okay, this is the end of part one. As total we made 2500 pictures and yesterday I spent the whole day on deleting many of them, I chose circa 400 as the best. Do you usually take also so many pictures or me and my mother are just some kind of freaks? Actually after this we decided with her to change style, we are gonna try to shoot much less now.. I get nausea as soon as I see my camera:)