Payment: 25% on booking, remainder within 30 days of tour start date. Cancellation: Deposit not refundable under any circumstances; if cancelled within 30 days of tour start date, any other amounts already paid will be repaid.  If cancelled after 30 days, only 50% of total paid, less deposit, will be refunded.

Calendar  year 2007 from 23 to 29 April 2007 from 02 to 08 July 2007                     from 17 to 23 September 2007 Departures: will depart whenever a group of at least 6 people has assembled, or by special arrangement.  If possible, departures are made on any day but Saturday because because Lord Nelson's castle, which we reach 2 days into the tour, is closed on Mondays.

Your guide, Ettore Click the pic

PROGRAM *Total km. to cover off-road

1^st Day

Arrival, transfer to Nicolosi “Porta dell’Etna” and accommodation in B&B.

Tour presentation in the evening.

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2^nd Day

Pista altomontana of the Etna. Km. 3+37*

Transfer by a bus-line to the "Sapienza Refuge", mt.1904.
Departure for “Linguaglossa pine-forest”, through the "Pista Altomontana of the Etna" (all off-road). You will cross the side of the Volcano from North to South through woods and the old and recent lavic flows of 1614-24, of 1981 and of 2002-2003.
Arrival and accommodation in a Hotel.

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3^rd Day

Linguaglossa pine florest - Randazzo. Km. 48+12*

Visit to the Linguaglossa small town and continuation (through a disused tract of an old railway) for Castiglione di Sicilia, a typical village on guard of the Alcantara Valley.

Visit and continuation for Randazzo.

Accommodation in a Hotel.

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4^th Day

Randazzo - Floresta - Randazzo. Km. 4+35*

Excursion in the Nebrodi Park: from Randazzo, along the antique path, to Floresta, the highest village in Sicily (mt.1275), famous for the production of "Provole" cheese.

Return to Randazzo through the S.S. 114.

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5^th Day

Randazzo - Alcantara Gorges - Giardini Naxos Km. 26 + 5*

The "Wine Road" is the area where the wine of Aetna is made. It is possible to taste the wine at a producing farm.
You will go down towards the Sea, through the Valley of the Alcantara River, after the visit of its famous “Gorges”.

Accommodation in a Residence in Giardini Naxos.

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6^th Day

Giardini Naxos - Taormina - Giardini Naxos Km. 42

Visit to the Archaeological excavations of the old Nasso, the first Greek colony in Sicily.

Continuation for Taormina through alternative roads.

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7^th Day

Giardini Naxos, Acireale, Acitrezza  e Aci Castello. Km. 55

From Taormina to the “Acireale Timpa” and to the “Riserva Marina of the Cyclopes” .

Accommodation in Hotel at Acitrezza.

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THE COST INCLUDES:

• Illustrative materials (Maps and brochures)
• Half-Pension accommodation in double-rooms at the Hotel
• Tourist Village of Giardini Naxos accommodation in double-rooms (only bed)
• Luggage transportation (one a head) from and to each Hotel of the Tour
• Bus ticket for the Sapienza refuge

THE COST DOES NOT INCLUDE:

• Outward and return journey to reach the meeting and the return places
• Half-Pension at Giardini Naxos
• Midday lunches
• Meals drinks
• Wine and olive oil tastings, admittances to museums and tips
• Bike rental
• Insurance

Transfers:

• Transfer from Catania Airport to Nicolosi (meeting place), € 50  each way – max 4 people
   
• Transfer from Acitrezza (tour end) to Catania Airport, € 30  each way – max 4 people
   
• Transfer from Acireale Railway Station to Nicolosi, € 35   each way – max 4 people
   
• Transfer from Hotel Acitrezza to Acireale Railway Station, € 15 each way – max 4 people