Etna Morning at 2,000 m: Come in Our Vehicle or Follow in Your Own

A short version of Etna that still covers the mountain properly, leaving from Catania and the towns around it. One practical choice sets this apart at booking: you can travel in the operator's vehicles or take your own car and follow. The meeting place is fixed when you book. The guides are naturalists, and the explanations run to why the ground looks like this rather than only that it does. Questions are expected. The route takes in the Silvestri craters, the caldera of the Valle del Bove, a lava cave entered with helmet and torches provided, and several lava flows along the way, including the one from the 1991-93 eruption, the longest in the recent history of the volcano. It ends at a certified farm in Zafferana Etnea, with a tasting of honey and of wines made from grapes grown on Etna.