The walk was hard work and I struggled, sitting down a few times and saying I wanted to turn around, (I wasn’t just struggling with the walk up but the thought of having to get down as well - Im not very good at walking downhill at all) however Steve cajoled me into carrying on and I'm very glad he did, it wasn’t actually that far. Initially the path was mainly loose gravel and although not too steep in most places it was tricky to walk on, as we made our way slowly up the volcano we were surprised not to see more people - we were overtaken by a German couple and met an english lady coming down who had climbed to the top in the dark to watch the sunrise 😬.  After a while the trail turns into a stone path which had once been paved with rocks but had since broken up, this was considerably easier to walk on and thankfully in the shade 😁 after that section you think you are going to arrive at the top but you just get to the crater's edge and can’t actually see inside it - there is a trail along the crater ridge, thankfully fairly flat and leads around the crater  to the highest vantage point.