Looking for volcano tours with free spaces and guaranteed departures in the next months? Read all

Help us protect Dallol and have it listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site by contributing to an ambitious and very interesting crowd-sourced project: Read all

For those who read German, this is a great article about Italy's volcanoes, featured as cover story of the February issue of Austria's renowned Universum Magazine. Written by travel writer Christine Sonvilla (www.sonvilla.at), it is a successful mix of well-written and easy-to-understand geological background and personal portraits or anecdotes from people who live at or fell in love with Italy's fire mountains. Read all

The 2015/2016 winter season for traveling to the Danakil depression turned out to be the most interesting one since 2010. Erta Ale´s lava lake level was the highest in a long time and even overflowed - the Dallol hydrothermal area was finally revitalised after more than 4 years of drought, with heavy rainfall triggering new geysers, hot springs and colours... Read all

Camp for three nights on the rim of the giant crater of Nyiragongo volcano with its active lava lake and trek through dense forest to observe some of the last mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park.