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  • In Sicily Legends Come To Life

    Sicily is the stage for many myths and legends. Like this one pictured from Homer’s Odyssey, where the cyclopes Polyphemus is throwing lava boulders at Odysseus. During our October 2020 Stunning Sicily tour, these stories come to life–especially when you are standing on the slopes of Mount Etna looking at the coast from where Odysseus…

  • Visiting Sicily’s Mount Etna Volcano

    Mount Etna in eastern Sicily is Europe’s largest, most active volcano. There are many ways to visit this UNESCO site and wonder of the world. The most informative, safest, and sustainable way is with professional guides who are aware of current activity and conditions. An excursion on Etna is thrilling, and our Experience Sicily clients…

  • Somewhere On Etna

    Somewhere on Etna

  • Get Up Close To Mount Etna

    No, Jason is not walking on the moon! He’s walking on the rim of the extinct Silvestri Crater on Mount Etna, Europe’s largest, most active volcano (a UNESCO site). The Silvestri Craters (There are two.) are about 6200 feet above sea level. They were formed with an eruption in 1892. There’s a lot to learn…

  • The Grapes Tell Us When

    The grapes are getting ready for the harvest! Almost time to make the mosto for the wine.

  • Remote Town, Day 8 | Amunì ad Etna

    Live from Sicily! Day 8 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town. Amunì! The Stars of Etna. We climbed, we road in jeeps, we walked, we gasped at the views. Fabrizio showed us the way! It’s like walking on the moon!

  • Day 4: Myths & Mysteries of Sicily tour

    Live from Sicily! Day 4 of Myths & Mysteries of Sicily: As Above/So Below. Etna inspired all of our senses. Taormina pleased.

  • Dear Mamma Etna

    Mount Etna, one year ago, from a pistachio farm in Bronte, the city of pistachios… The locals call her Mamma Etna.

  • 360 Degrees Of Etna

    Live from Sicily! The villages of Etna hosted our curiosities today. We started the morning eating sheep’s milk ricotta warm out of the cauldron along with honey drizzled doughnuts. When we visited the town of Zafferano Etnea, we learned some local mythology and about what it’s like to live on Europe’s most active volcano. This…