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Day 8 of 10 · Nicolosi · The Classic Highlights of Sicily

Day 8 — Mount Etna South Slopes

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An active day to your new base in Nicolosi, with 1 h 45 on the road.

Mount Etna South Slopes
Etna © photographed on 10 February 2017 by Jacopo Werther — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Stage 6 · Nicolosi · Italy

We sleep at Rifugio Giovannino Sapienza, 5.6 km away

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day 8 1 night 1 h 45 on the road113 kmclimate cold

Interest of the place — nature 25. Based on: volcano; volcano reached from the stage (Etna).

programme
6 h 30
road
1 h 45

To add if time allows: Searching for endemic birds in the Etna Park pine forests (3 h) · Strolling through the pine-scented streets of Nicolosi (1 h 30)

Bad-weather option — something else that day — Visiting the Volcanological Museum of Nicolosi

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