Mount Etna: Summit Crater Trek with Cable Car and 4×4 Option – Sicily, Italy

EXPERIENCE:

Hike to the top of Europe’s tallest active volcano with a volcanologist guide. Discover the views from the summit craters, explore a lava tunnel and the Valle del Bove.

Meet your guide at the local partner’s office opposite the station of the southern Etna cableway. From the top of the cable car you will cross lunar landscapes aboard a 4×4 up to an altitude of 2850-meters in the Torre del Filosofo area.

Begin your trek until we reach the edge of the Bocca Nuova (3300-meters) a crater which opened in 1968, one of the most impressive in the area. Stroll to the top and enjoy 360° panoramas and, if the weather permits, see as far as the Aeolian Islands and almost all of northern Sicily.

Descend from the summit craters and pass through the craters of the 2002 eruption, then walk inside a lava tunnel and admire the volcanic amphitheater of the Valle del Bove, a spectacular caldera 8 km long and 4 km wide. Return by 4×4 and cable car to the starting point.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Hike up Europe’s highest active volcano and see beautiful views from the top
See beautiful sights and panoramic views around Etna with a volcano guide
Feel the raw power of the nature as you examine signs of Etna’s past eruptions
Relax during a ride on a cable car and travel up the side of an active volcano
Explore one of the volcano’s lava tunnels and admire various volcanic craters

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