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Travel Blogs from Giardini Naxos
Sicily day 1
On Friday we left for Sicily around 4 and when we got there it was dark. We walked to our group meal at another hotel and then took a walk along the beach by our hotel in Giardini-Naxos. The second day we were there, we took a day-trip to Taormina, a small hilltop town about 20 minutes from Naxos. We had a two-hour tour in the morning …
Sicily day 2
The second day in Sicily we took a half-day trip to Catania, a small town at the base of Mt. Etna that is not very touristy, but it gives you a feel for the real Sicily and how most people live in Sicily. Catania was not as pretty as Taormina and there was a lot more trash, but they still had their fair share of churches. The first church we went …
Sicily day 3
On day three we took a two-hour bus ride to Sircusa (Syracuse), which is pretty much an island, but is only attached to the main land by a small strip of land. We had another half-day guided tour with a tour guide that was trying to do Phillipa's (the AIFS staff-member) job but was kinda funny. We saw some old buildings, mostly from the Baroque …
Sicily day 4
Today was AWESOME!!! Did I mention how much I have been missing mountains or any type of gigantic rocks?! Mt. Etna definitely had that along with being one of the most active volcanoes in Europe (I don't know how it rates throughout the world). We took our tour bus to the base of the snow on the mountain and then took the ski life up higher, but …
Sicily day 5
The last day we were in Sicily Zack, Michelle, Lauren, and I took the local bus to Naxos again because wanted to do some more souvenir shopping and walk around the town more. We got up there in the morning and after shopping, we walked to an end of the city we hadn't been in that really cute. There were some more views of the ocean and beaches …