Etna Experience organizes Etna tour, excursions, full and half day trips to enjoy the best visit, trekking and guided tours to Mount Etna Volcano

Excursion

Etna from Syracuse Hiking lunch and Wine

Excursion information

Location South side of Etna
Altitude 2000 meters
Duration From 8.00 am to 5.30 pm
Difficulty easy
Departure Syracuse. We guarantee also a pick up at an agreed meeting point upon booking.
Operated by

First stop

Start. One of Etna Experience’s expert naturalistic guides will pick you up at 8:00 a.m. from your hotel in Syracuse or from an agreed meeting point, to take you aboard one of our 8-seater vehicles (jeep or minivan).

Trekking. Hours of fascinating trekking around the most interesting places on the South side of Etna, scene of the last impressive eruption: The 2001 and 2002 Eruption


Lunch.

At lunch we will stop in a winery in a town at the feet of the Etna Volcano. You’ll enjoy a genuine and typical Sicilian lunch made of fresh products. Every dishes will be paired with Mount Etna DOC wines.

Please let us know in advance if you have food allergies or if you follow particular diets, like vegan or vegetarian.

Wild nature. Different naturalistic routs with a scheduled circumnavigation of a button-like row of craters, lava-flowing caves and native plants. The tour is also designed for trekking and nature lovers, in good health conditions. Pauses are planned during the hike and this walk is smoother due to the very few obstacles.


Third stop

Explore the lava caves of Etna. After trekking, you will visit a volcanic cave using the equipment provided (helmets and torches) to safely explore it. Our expert guide will introduce you, with some basic information on speleology, to the fascintating phenomena often related to eruptions.

Come back. The Mt Etna Full Day Tour will finish at 5:30/6:00 p.m., when you will come back to Syracuse.


Second stop

From April 1st to June 30th:

• € 99 for adults;
• € 89 for students up to 24 years;
• not available for children 0-12 years.

From July 1st to September 15th:

• € 104 for adults;
• € 94 for students up to 24 years;
• not available for children 0-12 years.

From September 16th to October 30th:

• € 99 for adults;
• € 89 for students up to 24 years;
• not available for children 0-12 years.


Included in the booking

A professional and passionate naturalistic guide (our guides are geologist, volcanologists, agronomists, etc…). Transport service with jeep or minibus from Syracuse, directly from your hotel or from an agreed meeting point. A lunch with Etna wine. Insurance with our Tour Operator. Licensed Transport Service. Water. Equipment, if required when booking.

Languages

The excursion will take place in Italian and English. Upon request and according to the availability also in Spanish and French.

Recommended equipment

Trekking shoes are mandatory. We therefore ask you to send us the size of the shoes you wear so that we can provide them for free. If you do not provide this information and we can not therefore provide the necessary shoes, if you need to rent the shoes once you have reached Etna, you will have to bear this cost. Remember to bring some socks, we do not provide them! We also remind you to wear a heavy jacket, if you think that yours is not enough, let us know and we will provide it for free.

Requirements

We advise not to attend the excursions to those who are not in good health, especially to people suffering from cardiorespiratory diseases.

Itinerary changes

In case of bad weather conditions, the guide may decide to make some changes to the itinerary for safety reasons.