The best way to get an idea of Etna's enormous size and experience its ... private station), either following a clockwise circular tour around the volcano or concluding the excursion at Taormina.

From Piano Provenzana, a range of Etna tours are on offer. We took a sunset tour, and, having rented a warm coat (essential, even in August), boarded a 4x4 off-road bus with a local volcanologist ...

The Etna Park Visitor Center offers naturalist-guided tours that depart from the center. Visitors recommend taking the Circumetnea Railway nearly 130-mile ride around the volcano, but advise you ...