Etna Jeep Tour from Taormina: Lunar Landscapes & Ancient Craters

Highlights

• 4x4 Excursion on Etna North
• Trek in Valle del Bove
• Lava Tube Cave Exploration

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Piano Provenzana

   Pass by

   Pick-up at your hotel by Jeep. Across the highway you will get to Giarre and from there cross the villages at the feet of Mount Etna You will pass on an ancient lava flow from which you will admire the immense Bove Valley, a huge volcanic depression created about 25 million years ago and where you will see some recent lava flows and some rock formations created by collapse of ancient volcanic buildings. You will visit a lava cave and after, you will take a short break in a mountain shelter. From here you will continue the tour with a walk along a path to visit “Monti Sartorius”, craters formed during the eruption of 1865. After, if you have chosen the half day trip, you will visit a recent lava flow formed in Piano Provenzana. From here you will return to your hotel passing through the road said Mareneve and the villages of Linguaglossa and Fiumefreddo.

2. 2

   Valle Del Bove

   15min

   the immense Bove Valley, a huge volcanic depression created about 25 million years ago and where you will see some recent lava flows and some rock formations created by collapse of ancient volcanic buildings.

3. 3

   Monti Sartorius

   40min

   you will continue the tour with a walk along a path to visit “Monti Sartorius”, craters formed during the eruption of 1865. After, if you have chosen the half day trip, you will visit a recent lava flow formed in Piano Provenzana. From here you will return to your hotel passing through the road said Mareneve and the villages of Linguaglossa and Fiumefreddo.

Before you go

Location

Via Provenzana 37, Localita Piano Provenzana, 95015, Italy