Mt Etna and Taormina, Sicily

We arrived at the port of Messina, Sicily today. Decided to take a tour to Mt Etna and then to a small mountain village of Taormina. We travelled up 2000 metres to Crater Silvestri. This crater formed in 1892 after a massive eruption of Mt Etna. Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, there have been at least 10 eruptions since 2000, the most recent in March 2017. We walked around the rim of Crater Silvestri.
Taormina is a small village built on one of the mountain tops in the Messina region. We walked down the centre of the village which has an abundance of tourist shops, Sicilian ceramic shops and lots of restaurants. A very pretty place.Read more