Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Seventh Stop: Mt. Etna, Italy















Our final stop was in Messina which is in Sicily in Italy. We took a two hour drive to a live volcano, Mt. Etna. The volcano has three peaks and it has had a few big lava eruptions in the past. It was really cool driving up the mountain, because you could see the hardened river of lava as it wound down the mountain from the last eruption. Very interesting indeed. We couldn't really understand our tour guide because her English wasn't so good, so that was too bad. By the time she finished a sentence it had taken her so long that you forgot what the beginning of the sentence was. But all in all, the volcano was beautiful and I'm glad we got to go!

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