11 Aug 2021
Hello,
We had an amazing and very informative day. Our guide provided us with everything we needed or wanted to know. From trekking shoes to details of the happening on and around etna. He was very attentive to our needs and happy to linger longer in some places to make photos or go into detail if you had questions. The tour was provided in fluent german, spiked with anecdotes of past trips here and there as we got to enjoy the beautiful scenery. In the morning we were picked up at our airbnb stay, then had an informative ride to etna where we got some general information about etna, the area and latest eruptions. We trekked around different craters and through a beautiful mountain side with birch trees. We then continued on to the destroyed tourist site, seeing the extend of force nature could bring with the eruption of a volcano. For lunch we rested at a nice little restaurant, enjoying local food qith cool drinks before exploring a lava tunnle. We ended our day when we hot to the Alcantara site, where we cooled down in the icy water a bit before being brought home.
All in all it was probably the best decision we could have made. I looked through several tourist guides, but nearly all of them had costs hidden somewhere and you had to explicitly ask to know about them. Etnaway was straightforward about any costs, easy to contact, honest, informative and a pleasure to spend a day with. If I ever come back to catania and do another tour to etna, I won't have to search long because I know where to go this time.
Hope to see you again in the future
Marisa, Milena and Gabriel