ETNA SOUTH AND ALCANTARA GORGES

From Mount Etna to the Alcantara Gorges, with this excursion you will discover a geological landscape absolutely unique in the world. Walking along the picturesque slopes of the highest volcano in Europe which with its 3350mt. dominates eastern Sicily, we will reach the station of “Rifugio Sapienza”, at 1900mt.
Optional: Ascension by cable car up to 2500mt. With the assistance of authorized Alpine Guides of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club), continuation on an off-road vehicle to the summit crater area, at about 3000mt.
Afterwards we will reach the Alcantara Gorges, a corner of paradise, where the encounter between the hot lava and the frozen water of the Alcantara River originated basaltic prism walls of rare beauty.