Catania - Etna 20 August 2013
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39:49.47N 17:48.64E Tuesday 20th Today we journey to Etna. The journey
involves a bus from the local bus station in Catania up
to the foot of Mt Etna where we transfer to cable car
for the next leg up the mountain. Finally we are bussed
in 4x4 vehicles through the black volcanic lava terrain
to a height of 3,300 metres above sea level.
We take many pics and experience a heavy
thunderstorm that shook the ground and whose static
electricity even pulled J's hair up towards the sky. We
have lunch in a hotel at the foot of the cable car
system and return to Catania by bus at 16:30. A nice
day. Having walked through Catania's dock area
to the bus station we would concur with the comments
made in the various pilot books that Catania is indeed a
place where the streets and surrounding areas are
covered in dirt and garbage. In fairness to the town we
found its centre with some fine buildings to be in
better shape and enjoyed the evening there.
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