…or ‘five lands’ are the colorful Ligurian villages hugging the rugged coastline of the Italian Riviera which have maintained their precious antiquated state, partially due to their inaccessibility by cars, prompting a 1997 UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, which resulted in recent ramped up tourist activity – evidenced by our Italian friend and host who grew up near by and remembers not too long ago when you had to sneak through a fence to get to the path connecting the five towns – but today we paid our 5 Euro and enjoyed a hike from Vernazza to Corniglia.