Day-Tour of Caving on Mount Etna from Catania
Catania, Italy
Trip Type: Adrenaline & Extreme
Duration: 9 hours
This full-day tour allows you to know Etna starting from its underground spaces, by visiting a beautiful lava flow cave, and continuing with the spectacular mountain landscapes alternated by a lush vegetation and desert valleys. In the first part of the excursion, you will visit a lava flow cave with all the necessary equipment, then you will walk in a path of Etna Park with panoramic view on the Bove valley.
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This full-day tour allows you to know Etna starting from its underground spaces, by visiting a beautiful lava flow cave, and continuing with the spectacular mountain landscapes alternated by a lush vegetation and desert valleys. In the first part of the excursion, you will visit a lava flow cave with all the necessary equipment, then you will walk in a path of Etna Park with panoramic view on the Bove valley.
During this excursion you will visit one of the most beautiful and characteristic lava flow caves: the famous Serra Cozza Cave 1, generated by the lava in 1971.
Inside the cave you will admire spectacular stalactites, blisters and fantastic overlapping lava shelves. This cave, in the upstream section, is contained in the eruptive crack and has a section with a shape of a keyhole, several meters high, and no more than 3 meters wide. On the vault you can observe some openings. The downstream section is instead a flow gallery, with a great slope, 350 meters long, and 2 to 3 meters wide, with a floor made of scoriaceous lava. In the first section the sides are opaque, but further ahead they still maintain a glassy look. Continuing the itinerary, on a path submerged by a dense vegetation made of birch trees with ginestre scrubs, you will cross valleys created by the last eruption, until you reach a panoramic point from where you will be able to admire the vastness and uniqueness of Bove Valley landscape.
During this excursion you will visit one of the most beautiful and characteristic lava flow caves: the famous Serra Cozza Cave 1, generated by the lava in 1971.
Inside the cave you will admire spectacular stalactites, blisters and fantastic overlapping lava shelves. This cave, in the upstream section, is contained in the eruptive crack and has a section with a shape of a keyhole, several meters high, and no more than 3 meters wide. On the vault you can observe some openings. The downstream section is instead a flow gallery, with a great slope, 350 meters long, and 2 to 3 meters wide, with a floor made of scoriaceous lava. In the first section the sides are opaque, but further ahead they still maintain a glassy look. Continuing the itinerary, on a path submerged by a dense vegetation made of birch trees with ginestre scrubs, you will cross valleys created by the last eruption, until you reach a panoramic point from where you will be able to admire the vastness and uniqueness of Bove Valley landscape.
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