BK's Travel Blog: Rome day 3

Our third day in Rome we started out our day by meeting up with a guide outside the Vatican for a tour inside the museums. I have been inside the Vatican twice and I was thinking I would not gain much more from this visit then I already had. However, our guide was extremely passionate about the art that he showed us and I actually took away from that visit more then I had known from my previous visits combined. While in the Vatican we saw the Geography hall and various other halls on the way to the Sistine Chapel, as well as the Raphael paintings and a modern Christianity art section before entering the Chapel. After walking through the Sistine Chapel the guide gave us a tour of St. Peter's. The tour we were on lasted the whole morning and part of the afternoon and everyone was pretty hungry and tired of walking around. So once we were done with the tour we took a break for lunch and then met up again to climb to the top of St. Peters.

We all met up again to climb the cupola, or the top of the dome for a view of the city. We opted for a ticket where we would take and elevator up 200 stairs and then still have to climb about 350 stairs on our own. After having the adventure of climbing up to the top and squeezing through tight stairways we got a beautiful view of the city and square. After staying at the top for awhile we climbed back down and waited for the professors to meet up with us. To make a long story short we mixed up where to meet and we ended up waiting for almost an hour before meeting up to continue our day.

After we finally met up we continued our walk to Campo de Fiori and then visited the Pantheon before heading back to the hotel for a bit before dinner. After dinner the students headed off to explore some of the city on our own, however it didn't work out exactly the way we wanted. We tried to visit some of the park that is in Rome, but we went the wrong way and by the time we figured out the right way to go locals told us we shouldn't be heading there at night. So with this information we decided not to visit the park and just go to Piazza de Popolo. We hung out at the Piazza for awhile before heading back for the night.