Mount Etna Half-Day Small Group Tour from Taormina
Description
Get close and personal with Sicily’s most famous volcano on this six-hour, small-group tour. Set off from Taormina — hotel pickups and drop-offs in the vicinity are included upon request — and arrive at Mount Etna, where you’ll spend the day walking through craters, exploring a lava cave, and learning about the volcano’s past eruptions at max. 2000 meters of altitude. Afterwards, you will be provided with a snack, complemented by wine, a little dessert and a sweet wine taste.
Tour Options
Itinerary
our starting point (pickups from accommodations or agreed meeting points in Taormina available)
Here, you will begin the trekking portion of this experience, where you will learn about the volcano's history while exploring craters and lava caves.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Please provide your accommodation address/hotel in the Taormina - Giardini Naxos area: we will contact you to confirm the pickup outside/nearby the hotel or at a convenient meeting point (for Castelmola, Trappitello and Letojanni we have fixed meeting points).
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options are available, please specify any dietary requirements in the booking request
- Tours in other languages (French and Spanish) can be arranged upon request, if received with adequate notice.
- We suggest dressing according to the season (consider that the temperature on Etna is usually lower)
- Please let us know your shoe sizes if you require hiking boots
- The trip is not recommended for participants suffering form heart diseases or other serious medical conditions
- Customers will be contacted the day before the tour to confirm the pickup details (hotel if possibile, or in a meeting point nearby).
- We do not recommend participation for pregnant women after the 4th month.
Reviews(666)
Guide was great, friendly and organized well! He was patient and mad everyone feel welcome. Hike was not hard and the snacks was a nice touch. Had a great day!
A must-do if you’re visiting Sicily. We had an amazing experience exploring Mount Etna! Hiking through the craters and visiting the lava caves were definite highlights, and we really appreciated that hiking boots were provided—it made the experience much more convenient. My only minor critique is that the tour was conducted in both English and French. While I completely understand the need to accommodate both groups, having every explanation repeated in two languages sometimes slowed the pace and meant we had a little less time to explore. That said, our guide did a fantastic job seamlessly switching between both languages, which couldn’t have been easy. Overall, it was a memorable experience, and I’d definitely recommend this tour.
Very well organised and our guide was both friendly and very knowledgeable with excellent English. The walking was relatively challenging but we felt very safe - he made sure that we all had the right equipment before we left, and it was a small enough group for him to provide assistance if we needed it. (We saw other groups that seemed too big, and were climbing in poor footwear with small children which did not seem like a good idea). Hotel pick ups and drop offs worked really well and communication was good. In short myself and my 16 year old daughter had a fantastic and memorable trip! Would honestly not recommend for toddlers/younger children - some of the paths are narrow and steep with slopes on either side. And the weather can change very quickly.
Etna people are our kind of people!
We really enjoyed our tour of Mount Etna. Diego was a fantastic guide and provided a lot of knowledge during our hike through the craters and lava tube. The wine tasting at the end was delightful.
Great experience. Pick up was on time. Luca was nothing but superb as a guide and absolutely full of knowledge. If I come back to Sicily I will definitely be doing this again and go higher up.
The trip was well organized, and our guide, Daniel, was awesome! Picking us up from our hotel was so nice, it made the trip so much easier. The lava tubes were really amazing and the walk up to the craters was pretty easy. Only feedback is that the snack needed to be a bit more substantial. And the sesame ‘cookies’ were not sweet—more like a breadstick. After all the walking, we needed a bit more.
A truly amazing day. The guide was a scholar - so knowledgeable about every aspect of Mt Etna, volcanoes, local culture, etc. This was the highlight of our trip to Sicily. Lunch and wine we're also quite good.
We had a brilliant trip to Mt Etna today. Roberto, our guide, was such a passionate, knowledgeable, helpful and kind guide. He is a master of his trade and we were highly impressed by his professionalism and guidance throughout. A tour not to be missed!
What a fun excursion! We are a family of five with varying ages of adults and we all loved it. Giuseppe was our guide and was so knowledgeable and kind. We spent a bit hiking around Mount Etna, we checked out the lava tubes and finished at a pretty winery. Overall, we had a really great time. 10/10 would recommend.
