LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT ME. LUCA ZOPPO: YOUR NAPLES TOUR GUIDE

With 20 years of experience in travelling, let me be your personal tour guide through the secrets of Naples and its surroundings. If you want, you can read something about my story.

ABOUT ME

Born and raised in Naples, I’ve been travelling around the World and met people from different backgrounds. My strong passion for the historical truth of Naples, its archeology and the breathtaking beauty of its nature brought me to achieve the licence of Touristic Guide in 1999. Since then I have been sharing my energetic, positive and dynamic attitude with thousands of tourists visiting my territory. During my excursions fun, knowledge and adventure are guaranteed. As your private tour guide in Naples, I will make you feel comfortable in every circumstances, so that you can focus on enjoying your trip and don’t need to care about logistics and organization. With me it’s not just traveling, it’s discovering.

So, what about me? As a Naples tour guide it’s really important to me to make people feel comfortable and my motto is “mi casa es tu casa”, so I want to tell you something more about my life. At the age of twenty I lived in Los Angels for a year and went to UCLA for English language courses dedicated to foreigners in 1999; then moved to San Diego for 6 months and studied Archeology at UCSD with an American teacher I met in Naples. Since then I had been travelling around the globe to study Archeology and visit ruins all over the world. I highly fell in love with the Inca and Maya ancient ruins but have an extra passion for the Temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

TRAVEL BLOGGER? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

At this point of my story many people suggested me to become a travel blogger but instead I’ve chosen an “offline existence” in order to keep free from any contracts or marketing influenced choices. So I kept on travelling around southern African countries by myself. I drove from Cape Town to Victoria Falls. Few places I loved like the skeleton coast in Namibia and the Himba tribes near the Etosha nat. park. I slept in the Okavango Delta feeling the lion’s roaring.

In South Africa Republic I drove through the Kruger National Park but the lodges were too expensive so I slept in the car for a week. Since then all my friends call me Tarzan. I lived in South France Alpes (Les deux Alpes) for a winter season practicing snowboarding and working in a bar to improve French language. I also snowboarded at Whistler Canada. Vancouver is one the best cities ever. I surfed in Costa Rica and Brazilian coasts. I had been searching for waves in Australia for 5 months too.​

I’M A FOOTBALL LOVER…

I love football so, beside being a semi professional player, it was my dream to go to the Buenos Aires stadium “La Bombonera” and watch the games of Boca Juniors. I’m now involved as production director of the SSC Naples Calendar, players as Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne, Raul Albiol, Pepe Reina, José Maria Callejon, Jorginho, Allan and many others have a private chat with me in order to learn about the historical characters they will represent on set. While they learn about history I learn about footballers secrets.

…BUT ALSO A KAYAK AND YOGA LOVER!

The temperatures of the neapolitan winter are mild and when the sea is what we call “una tavola” – that which literally means flat as “a table” – I go by kayak to the Island of Capri. I can’t even describe the sensation of entering the blue grotto by myself when nobody is in there.

When I’m in search of inspiration and quietness I practice Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. I’m a certified teacher, thanks to my graduation in Mysore India. I’ve been leading private yoga classes on private yachts in the Pier of Naples. The practice of yoga brought me to meet my wife: we are proud parents of a boy now.

MY TRAVELS

USA:

Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Park, Portland, Seattle, Boing Warehouse, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Powel Lake, Navajo Indian reservation, New York, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Key West

AMERICAN CONTINENT:

Cuba,Canada, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil

ASIA:

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong

AFRICA:

Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa Republic, Egypt

OCEANIA COUNTRIES:

Australia, Maui, Oahu

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES:

Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, France, Hungary, Greece