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Sicily : Self Drive Tour 8 days from Catania

8 days
Start and end in Catania
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Curated to ignite your sense of adventure
Partially Guided
Independent travel, featuring selected guided excursions
Guided in English
Group Size 1 - 6
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Highlights

  • Explore Taormina and its historic sites
  • Taste honey and wine on Mount Etna
  • Discover Baroque cities and a cooking class
  • Visit the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento
  • Tour Palermo and Monreale's ancient wonders

Itinerary

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  1. Introduction
  1. Day 1 Catania Arriving. Drive to Taormina
  2. Day 2 Etna Mt. - Taormina with lunch
  3. Day 3 Taormina - Catania - Syracuse
  4. Day 4 Ragusa - Modica and Noto with lunch and cooking class
  5. Day 5 Ragusa- Agrigento - Palermo
  6. Day 6 Palermo - Monreale
  7. Day 7 Palermo - Marsala - Segesta - San Vito Lo Capo
  8. Day 8 Palermo - departure
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18 to 90 years old

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  • LS
    · January 5th, 2020
    We enjoyed the Sicily News Eve 2020 tour. Our tour guide, Placido was very informative. I did feel that the News Eve was not organised at all and we were left to our own device and didn’t enjoy it. Overall the was tour was good
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    Trip date: December 2019
  • ZM
    · January 4th, 2020
    Dear Tourradar, Thank you very much for a gorgeously seeing tour, unfortunately less good for hearing what was said and explained. Although the guide was nice and in his way helpful he seriously needs to manage better the group and his talking skills. Since majority in the group were Italians the others felt often discriminated against. If I would have known that this tour is 3 languages tour I most probably would had not gone for it. On your site you said English speaking tour not mentioning other languages. You honestly need to be precise and clear about the tour language. Difficulty was 3 languages and the guide determination to say it all. Italians benefited since for the guide it was easier to say it all in his mother tongue. There was 1 Spanish visitor and 12 English speaking visitors who got the same attention as one Spanish visitor. Regarding accommodation in Palermo the hotel was below 3 star category. In Catania some rooms were without window and although I was not got that one I was on the other hand accommodated in a room for a disable people which was depressing. I would suggest to you to change it. The best in this tour was Lorenzo, the guide who took the English speaking people through the valley of kings. He literally placed us in that period when Hera and Herculis were living. Great guide and would suggest you to employ him to guide English speaking people through the tours like this. Thank you and I hope to use your service again providing that my comments (they are the comments of the others in English speaking part of the group) will be taken into account for improvement. Sincerely, Zeljka Mudrovcic
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    Trip date: December 2019
  • Sicily : Self Drive Tour 8 days from Catania reviewer 3
    · May 27th, 2018
    We really enjoyed !!! Thank you !!!
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    Trip date: February 2018

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    Shane

    Asked on October 6th, 2024

    Is there a reason that there are no dates in 2025? We would like to go in May, 2025.

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    • Soleto TravelOperatorWritten October 2024

      The 2025 tour departures are not online yet as we were awaiting our contracted rates with the Hotels. First of all this tour has been confirmed also for next year, in May we will have almost daily departure as it s one of the best month to hike the Cinque Terre. By the 15/16th October we should be able to upload the new pricing 2025. In case of early booking we can confirm the same 2024 prices for you.

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    Darren

    Asked on May 25th, 2024

    Who drives? how many people are in the car. Do we drive the tour guide in the car with us.

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    • Soleto TravelOperatorWritten May 2024

      This is a self drive tour, it means the clients drive the car we provide included in the package, it is not a tour with a driver guide included.

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    Leslie

    Asked on May 25th, 2024

    Do we have a guide on this tour?

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    • Soleto TravelOperatorWritten May 2024

      The guide package is optional - it s not included in the standard package. However we can provide a guide in Siracuse, Taormina, Agrigento and Palermo.

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    Stuart

    Asked on May 22nd, 2024

    what is category C Car ?

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    • Soleto TravelOperatorWritten May 2024

      The C-segment is the 3rd category of the European segments for passenger cars and is described as "medium cars". It is equivalent to the Euro NCAP "small family car" size class, and the compact car category in the United Stat

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      Stuart

      TravelerWritten May 2024

      Actually we are a couple and wanted to tour Sicily from July16 to 23 ! I saw there is a tour named Private Tour of Sicily: Highlights! Can you provide more detailed information of that to us!

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    Mark

    Asked on March 27th, 2024

    please advise the kilometres driven in this itinerary eg total distances from day to day

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    • Soleto TravelOperatorWritten March 2024

      Kindly note, that we just suggest an itinerary, then the km and the distances to cover are absolutely up to clients. Anyway, I can send you the distances from day to day.. Day 1 : Catania to Taormina : km 55 Day 2 : Taormina - Etna - Taormina : km 80 Day 3 : Taormina - Catania - Siracusa : km 125 Day 4 : Siracusa - Noto - Modica - Ragusa : Km 130 km Day 5 : Ragusa - Agrigento Valley of the Temples - Palermo : km 270 Day 6 : Palermo - Monreale : Km 50 Day 7 : Palermo - Marsala - Segesta - San vito lo capo - Palermo : 220 : km

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