GuardTrailsDay 8 of 10 · Zafferana Etnea · Nature Parks & Baroque Heritage
Day 8 — Mount Etna East Slopes
An active day to your new base in Zafferana Etnea, with 2 h 35 on the road.
Stage 6 · Zafferana Etnea · Italy
We sleep at Rifugio Giovannino Sapienza, 5.6 km away
day 8 1 night 2 h 35 on the road168 kmclimate cold
Interest of the place — nature 25. Based on: volcano; volcano reached from the stage (Etna).
- programme
- 5 h 30
- road
- 2 h 35
- Hiking the Valle del Bove rim trailInterest nature 25★★★★★ · known in 115 languages — article “Etna”“Mount Etna, or simply Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It is located above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.” — after Wikipedia5 h 30
To add if time allows: Birdwatching for raptors over the Valle del Bove (2 h 30) · Visiting the House of Honey and local volcanic exhibits (1 h 30)
Bad-weather option — something else that day — Visiting the House of Honey and local volcanic exhibits
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On the way
Stops beside the road, chosen for their small detour — we say they are on the way, we do not promise to go through them.
Rifugio Sapienza
The primary base station on the southern slope, serving as the final staging point for high-altitude trekking.
30 min there · no detour · View on Google Maps
© photographed in 2014 by Edgar El — CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
