Mount Etna

[Crazylegs]

We are 3/4’s of the way around Sicily, we should visit Etna, but how. Drive as far as we can in the moho? get the train from Catania?
Has anyone visited? any suggestions would be welcome.

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[Two on Tour]

I remember DBK found going up Mount Etna to be quite expensive in his Two go to Sicily thread a few years ago.

 

[Spriddler]

we should visit Etna, but how.

Surely the local Tourist Office can give you up to date/reliable advice?

 

[DBK]

Drive up, the road is easy. You can buy a ticket for a trip to one of the craters once you arrive. It isn't cheap but we found it very interesting. You can walk but it's a long way and the top bit you can reach is at nearly 10,000 feet. Visits to the summit crater is by organised trips only and you wear a hard hat. If Etna is erupting these won't happen I guess.

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[carolyn]

We went up in a bus last year. We were well prepared but a lot of the tourists weren’t so hopped off in their T-shirts and flipflops, they didn’t last long. It was late May and we were in jeans , boots and puffa jackets. I’d forgotten my woolly hat and it wouldn’t have gone amiss! We were lucky, the clouds parted and the views were amazing.

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