The tour was really very exciting and impressed me, especially since there was a temperature difference of about 20 degrees from the valley to the Etna (at 3000 m altitude). A great experience of the power of nature. The guide was not so linguistically trained, so I didn't understand a lot. I lacked information about the Etna itself. This is also not a hiking tour, you can be transported comfortably by cable car or bus.

Great tour. We have booked the cable car and Unimo extension.

Great tour, cable car and Unimog extension booked. With these extensions it is not cheap, but firstly it is worth every penny and if you consider that the cable car is regularly damaged by lava flows, you should not compare the costs with cable car tariffs in the Alps. The Unimog transport from the mountain station up to 3000m is also extremely valuable because you don't have to trudge across these scree fields, where you have to slide back half a step for each step. Visiting the craters at 3000m above, and stomping around there is already strenuous enough at altitude - you finally come from sea level and are not acclimatized. The tour is super interesting, also for children.

The lava was still warm!

It was great to drive up across the different vegetation zones. Above was a still warm lava flow from an eruption 4 days earlier. That was great, of course. You should choose a sunny day because you have a great view from all sides. At the top of the cable car station there are many restaurants with delicious snacks.