jueves, 26 de julio de 2007

Beauty even on Death


Mount Etna, what a sight! Had the luck to join a future volcanologist on this trip, not so much for the knowledge, which there was, but for the emotion. From here I got the title, everyother step was astonishing and beautiful... with pictures to be taken here and also over there, eternal. It was nice to share into that emotion, also nice to help out to reach places I know he wouldnt have gone without me...
Etna is incredible. It overlooks most of Sicily and we can just picture the awesome power of mother earth when she gets her period and things can go bersek. The walk up wasnt bad, took us around 2-3 hours but mainly because we stopped a few times and made some big loops to see most of the volcano and the newly formed craters. Hard to explain the feeling of littleness one gets in front of a crater the size of a building, or the wind blowing at 100 mph making you feel it WILL pick you up and dump you into the hole. A little tuna for lunch and ready to keep on exploring.

Next victim: Taormina, the pearl of Sicily