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Mount Etna from above: helicopter experience

Posted on 30/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The excitement of climbing an active volcano is connected to what you shall see as you trek, step by step, along its mountain paths. Mount Etna already offers this experience thanks to the many hiking tours, mountain bike rides, also by going on a horse or donkey ride. If you do not love adventure, there […]

Excursion to Timparossa wood

Posted on 23/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We had already met Timparossa refuge, during our blog trips around the Etna area. We cannot help but talk about this place more than once, because it is beautiful. And especially in some seasons it offers a unique show of the nature. Timparossa is a beech forest that embraces a small hut-shaped refuge, built in […]

Mt Etna’s new top record, the South East Crater

Posted on 16/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We had written about it last week, and South East Crater – SEC – is the protagonist once again. It has a new unique record, today: it is the highest top of Mt Etna. This happened at the beginning of August, in the middle of the warmest and most tiring Sicilian summer. Mount Etna produced […]

South East Crater and how it changed in time

Posted on 09/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Our excursions “to the summit craters” of Etna for two years now have to deal with the angry reactions of the new landlord: the South East Crater, better known by the English acronym SEC. What was once a tiring but fascinating trip, always within safe limits, has now become a rare event. Because it is […]

Etna, powerful eruption on August 9

Posted on 09/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna explodes almost without warning at dawn on August 9, 2021, after almost 24 hours of “push and pull”. Tremors rising, falling, rising again, impending eruptions and new changes. On the night of Sunday 8th August everyone went to sleep convinced that the event was postponed. Then something happened after 2 in the morning. First […]