After getting supplies this morning we hired a car and set off for Mt Etna. Ended up taking the cable car up to a base at 2,500 metres then a 4 wheel drive bus further up before a guided walk up to the craters, plus 2,800m, noted the most recent lava flow. Small explosions were noted, very cold at that elevation and zero vegetation given the active environment, with the landscape in that area changing with every event, the last one of significance in November 2023. Good day on the top of Etna, the muffled explosions did make you think, what might be!

Heading up Etna in the cable car

Most recent lava flows

Lots of sulpur smoke and muffled explosions

Harsh and very cold environment at around 2,900m

Carol and Jude

Smoking crater

4wd buses taking people from the top of the cable car to higher elvations and then walking the craters