The experience was great, our guide Giuseppe was really friendly and informative and answered any... read more
The experience was great, our guide Giuseppe was really friendly and informative and answered any... read more
A great holiday in Taormina, with Mt Etna very active throughout our visit. A particular highlight... read more
On Saturday January 20th (2018) my son and I did the 'Etna full day Rifugio Sapienza' tour with Giuseppe. He picked us up at the hotel in Catania on the exact time we agreed. Allready before flying to Sicily, Giuseppe gave us a lot of important informations and advice. I could sense in the e-mails his enthusiasm for his guiding work. He is a superb prepared guide. Volcanology is my passion and it was nice to notice that he and I share this passion. Alltogether we had a long, magnificent day on Mount Etna! I still don't know how Giuseppe did it but also the weather was in favour of us, which made the views even more astonishing. reaching the rim of the Valle delle Bove was an exceptionally impressing moment. My son told me afterwards that he never expected that he himself would be that impressed by this beautiful piece of landscape and nature. The both of us are very grateful to Giuseppe for this 'giorno perfetto'!
We booked a tour with Giuseppe in October and had a very interesting tour of Mt Etna. There were three people in our group and we could choose what we wanted to see while we were driving up the mountain. We opted for a crater and the visit of a volcanic cave. On both sites we were the only group around with other tourists only recognizable in the distance.
Giuseppe grew up at Mt Etna and knows both the area and the volcano very well. There was not a single question about the volcano that he couldn't answer. He always took care that the tour was appropriate to every member of the group. The tours can get demanding but I'm sure that Giuseppe can find the proper route for everyone.
Highly recommended!
Guiseppe was very relaxed and friendly with a lot of patience. He took us to some lovely spots. We happened to have the first day of snow for the season on Mt Etna. He had great knowledge of the area and a passion for history and the volcano. Lovely small group personalised day. Thabks Guiseppe!
I loved that Giuseppe picked us up from our apartment and that we had a private tour. We were able to throw our hats, coats, boots, food into the boot of the car and off we went. Giuseppe is clearly passionate about Etna and knowledgeable too. He took us to beautiful sites of lava flow, craters, caves with safety gear. Despite the mass tourism on Etna, we barely saw another sole. He knew how to avoid the coach trips. I have 2 daughters aged 10 and 13. They struggled with some of the walking but we took regular breaks to allow them to catch up. It was a half day tour so I was expecting just a few hours but we got real good value time. Highly recommend this. Thank you.
Apart from mass tourism we joined a small group to hike around the Etna area. Giuseppe was a very nice guide with a profound knowledge about and around the volcano. He speaks fluently English. Value for money is good! Absolutely recommendable!
My wife and I greatly enjoyed our afternoon tour of Mount Etna in September 2017; we were picked up at our hotel by Francesco, who proved to be very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about Etna. We learned a lot about the present status of the volcano, and about it's history of comparatively-recent, and not so recent eruptions.
My wife is a geography teacher and Francesco was very obliging in bringing us to the various sights, craters and caves, giving us a picture of all sides of Etna, and allowing multiple photo-opportunities.
If you wish to get a true picture of Etna, and you're prepared to take the time to make the most of it, this is the tour to take.