Riomaggiore summer where the Meltemi wind arrives

where the Meltemi wind arrives most summer afternoons and turns the lower stretch into a kite-surfing hub

their distinctive color coming from weathered iron-bearing minerals in Maroon Formation mudstone sculpted by Ice Age glaciers

Mauritius sits about 700 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean — a volcanic island ringed almost entirely by coral reef

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Arthur shot from the air

Riomaggiore summer where the Meltemi wind arrivesRiomaggiore is the southernmost of the five Cinque Terre villages terracotta houses stacked up a steep ravine to the Ligurian coast, joined by a footpath above the sea. The villages have been there since around the 12th century; cars still can't reach the centers, only trains and boats. Bree shoots in the late light, the houses catching the last of it, the sea behind them already dark.