Don’t Want to Deal with the Hassle of Organizing your Vacation? Rely on the Numerous Sicily Tour Packages and you Won’t Be Disappointed (Tour of Sicily)
For the best sightseeing tour of Sicily experience there are many options available at any location around this exotic and wondrous island. From Catania to Palermo or Agrigento you can find great packages that include visits to family cottages, local agriturismo farms where you can learn the art of Sicilian cooking and taste the many exotic recipes that trace their roots to the ancient Romans, Greeks, Spanish and Arabs; go on wine-tasting excursions and learn about ancient traditional methods of wine and olive oil-making, along with grape and olive-pressing processes. Tour of Sicily day tours provide a good opportunity to visit particular and specific places of interest, like the nature reserve of the Isola Bella in Taormina or the Zingaro Reserve, the Temple of Segesta, and the baroque medieval towns of the Val di Noto, including visits to specific art exhibits and museums in Catania, Syracuse or Agrigento.
Tour of Sicily packages also provide organized boat trips around the bays- like the Isola Bella, the Catellammare del Golfo or the Agrigento Coast, and around the Egadi and Aeolian Islands, as well as snorkelling and diving excursions.
Tour of Sicily day tours Palermo Italy offer exceptional trips to scenic coastal towns and fishing villages like Cefalù (East of Palermo), and especially to Castellammare del Golfo and the Trapani Coast, where some of the best beaches and resorts are found (San Vito lo Capo).
Tours of Mt. Etna Sicily are extremely popular obviously, being the tallest active volcano in Europe and home to a rare combination of exotic vegetation and flora, wildlife, forests, and sedimentary rocky formations including hundreds of caves. Along with hiking and trekking, spelunking and cave exploration tours are also available. During the winter its snowy slopes are a favourite attraction for skiers which can take advantage of this thanks to day or week tours of Sicily from Catania- which offer also some unique visits to the many family-owned farms in the nearby Nebrodi mountains for a gastronomic experience of their individual regional products, and to the Park of Etna where you can spend a great time immersed in the exotic natural habitat of these UNESCO protected world heritage sites.
With the offers for tours of Sicily from Palermo you can reach the Madonie natural Park, and head out the lovely seaside town of Mondello with its renowned beach resort.
There are also combined tours including tours of Malta & Sicily. Check out insightvacations.com for a special promotional offer to visit the best of the ancient world in these two islands; from Carthaginian and Graeco-Roman temples, Saracen and Norman monuments and Cathedrals, and the mystique of the Churches of the Knights of St. John and the Templars.
Tours of Palermo Sicily will take you to the best architectural and artistic treasures in the island’s capital: the 9th Century Palazzo dei Normanni, the Catacombs of the Cappuccini Friars, the Church of Martorana with its collection of 12th Century ornate mosaics, the symmetrical fountains of the Quattro Canti grand square, just to name a few.
For a complete Tour of Sicily and Southern Italy resources such as Trafalgar tours come highly recommended, taking you to the most time-honoured places of cultural, artistic and historical importance – from Rome’s St. Peter Basilica to the volcanic ruins of Pompeii, the celebrated island of Capri, Sicily’s towns of Taormina, Agrigento, Mondello, Erice, Enna and Palermo. For a tour of Sicily Italy that you can complete in 11 days if you are short on vacation time, Rick Steves Tours provides a great trip filled with exciting activities and sports in all the best locations around the island and is totally worth the price for the wonderful experience.