Over the Crater’s Edge

The only time when you can get to the volcanoes of Indonesia is May-September. For the remainder of the year or the roads are poor or the tops of the mountains are hidden behind the dense fog.
This always happens at least one of the 3000 Indonesian islands volcano wakes up, producing clouds of smoke and tourists come from all over the world here with their cameras. One of the most popular types of travel is in the last few years the volcano climbing is. Both the famous Mount Bromo in East Java and the wonderful Kelimutu on the island of Flores are equipped with viewing platforms and stairs. People are running to the spot with hot coffee. But what is most difficult to wake up early in the morning you will wake up to have about 3 clock and then attended a 2-hour ride in a jeep through the other extreme tourists. However, you need not travel in a group - the other way is to rent a car with driver.
Bromo
The trip starts at Surabaya - administrative centre of the East Java province – from which tourists get to the Cemoro Lawang village. Here they can rent jeep or a pony and in the morning they put on warm clothes and move to where the crater is. But Jeep will take you only to the observation platform, then you will have to make an unmounted trip through the “sandy sea” (which is in fact only 3 kilometers long). Then you will have to climb up the ladder that leads to the crater. Puffs of smoke rising from it look like they’re solid – it seems that you can touch them. Most tourists visit the observation platform only, others venture for an 11-km trip around the crater (during your walk you will enjoy stunning views). Local guides offer a 2-day trip to the neighbouring volcano, Semeru, but this needs a more serious training.
Kelimutu
But a raise on Kelimutu volcano which is in the Flores Island is easy and pleasant. Here you can hire a Jeep or a motorcycle. At dawn you will meet a guide and spend the following 1,5 hours on a mountain path which lies between bamboo groves, past rivers and waterfalls . At the mountain top there are three lakes lying in the extinct crater, which change colours depending on what mineral salts they contain. According to a legend, when people die, their souls get to the lakes: innocent to the turquoise one, sinful – the black, whereas brown lake is a kind of a purgatory.
What else can you see here?
In Surabaya, you will find an excellent zoo, where rare species of birds and orang-utans. You are also advised to visit the old, in the north of the city - Masjid Ampel Arab district Skip Pabean Market and Chinatown, with little temples in the quiet lanes.
Labuanbajo coast of Flores in particular provide a great diving. You can also take a boat here to go to the famous Komodo dragons huge island.
Maumere is known for its colorful markets popular with strange fruit, red sugar cane, sugar and cocoa shipped directly from the plantations. There are also beautiful shawls and carpets with clean geometric patterns.
You should also visit Ngada heathen villages with stone altars and
Prices here are really low. The most expensive entertainment is diving in Maumere which costs $50.

Bromo - Ijen Tour

If you decide to make traveling over Indonesia do not ever forget to stop by Mount Bromo, the mother of active volcano in East-Java, Indonesia.
Bromo Caldera is the youngest caldera from well-known Tengger Caldera a volcanic massif extending from Semeru volcano with 16 km width. The massive Tengger volcanic complex dates back to about 820,000 years ago and consists of five overlapping stratovolcanoes, each truncated by a caldera. The volcano has summit elevation 2329 meter, latitude: 7.942°S and Longitude: 112.95°E 112°57'0"E last eruption was on 2007.

An overlapping cluster of post-caldera cones was constructed on the floor of the Sandsea caldera within the past several thousand years. The youngest of these is Bromo, one of Java's most active and most frequently visited volcanoes. Bromo is the most favourite and most visited by the tourists.

Cold, are the things that are the first you feel when you off from the car and step-down feet

Visitors usually 3:30 start of their visit to the first destination, they are very early in the morning to visit Penanjakan 2774 witnessed the highest elevation from the mountains at sunrise, because this mountain is the highest peak in the surrounding areas. To achieve this mountain you need sea sand (looks like a desert) per dry sand flying with Bush every possible is to make it difficult for tourists to breathe easy way to combat the cultivation of a combination of lost, especially in the dark .

Narrow road that curves Penanjakan en rout to climb the mountain roads, you course is to dedicate it requires a sufficient driving skills. Expected to avoid lifting things happen, usually the local visitors who know this area intimately and is driven by people Penanjakan jeep4x4WD use to reach the mountain. They are very visitor, a very good hospitality, you can feel like home.

The sunrise will take place at around 05.20 – 05.40 AM depend on season, the best time to see the sunrise would be around at May – September (no rainfall within that month).

It is usually after sunrise and then move back to the sand ocean exploration Bromo crater. There will be an option, so that the crater, first of all you can easily walk or if you want to try how to feel on horseback, you can sit, and only 7-9 U.S. dollars, it went back and forth from the jeep and the need for parking spaces 15-20 minutes to reach the mountain riding bromine stairs, then you should step up to the stairs to reach the crater (elevation 1.392) Edge. 250 stairs from the first step until the final few steps, but sometimes people are calculating a flight of stairs (I have been found to have a different number are 248 steps, but my teammates calculated 246), it seems very strange, but true .

Beside Mount Bromo, East Java has also amazing place to go. That is Kawah Ijen (Ijen Lake). The Ijen volcano is located in the east of Java province of a group of small stratovolcanoes constructed within the large 20-km-wide Ijen (Kendeng) caldera. The last eruption was on 1999The north caldera wall forms a prominent arcuate ridge, but elsewhere the caldera rim is buried by post-caldera volcanoes, including Gunung Merapi stratovolcano, which forms the 2799 m high point of the Ijen complex. Immediately west of Gunung Merapi is the renowned historically active Kawah Ijen volcano, which contains a nearly 1-km-wide, turquoise-colored, acid crater lake.

Summit Elevation: 2799 m 9,183 feet Latitude: 8.058?S 8?3'30"S Longitude: 114.242?E 114?14'30"E

Kawa Ijen picturesque, is the world's largest highly acidic lake, is a labor-intensive site, sulfur mine sulfur hand basket filled with action, carried out from the crater floor. Many other post-volcanic cone and crater of the volcano is located within or along its edges. After the war's largest concentration of volcanic cones constitute the EW to the south across the volcanic area.

Coffee plantations cover much of the Ijen caldera floor, and tourists are drawn to its waterfalls, hot springs, and dramatic volcanic scenery.

You may be needed at least 3 days journey to grab all the beautiful things of both Mount Bromo and Kawah Ijen. Bellow arrangement will showed how the itineraries going;

From Bromo to Ijen

This package is the most favorite tour for visitors who want to make the journey in very brief. Raising lots of sun and beautiful scenery of the sea-sand with a vivid image of the whole shape mt. Semeru vision from the highest point of Penanjakan 2774 ASL. So, prepare to spend a memorable experience never before imagined.

Connecting trip from Bali to Yogya, or from Yogya to Bali :

From Yogya: Take a train or domestic flight through Surabaya, end of tour at Ferry Terminal to catch a boat to Bali

From Bali : Take a boat to cross the Bali strait to Ketapang Terminal, end of tour at Surabaya air port / Train station to Yogya.

Day 1 >> Surabaya - Bromo
Meet with our guide at Surabaya air port signing JavaBush or written your name on the page. Our private comfort coach then takes you to Mt. Bromo, en routing to rural settlement and hilly road with green coloring of paddy field along the way will make your eyes fresh. If the time permitted we can stop at Madakaripura water fall, this spectacular waterfall lies hidden at the end of a deep valley in the foothills of the Tengger range. The water has cascades from the dense forest above. The primary attraction is natural environment that is encircled by 7 waterfalls and caves. Check in the hotel located at the last village, which it is facing to smokes Bromo crater.

Day 2 >> Bromo - Ijen
Wake up at very early morning, making short preparation for Sun Rise tour, and then the private jeep 4x4WD will drive you up to Penanjakan Mountain 2774 asl as the highest place to the Sun Rise and amazing view of mountain range. You may become live witnesses how amazing Bromo view that spread in your naked eyes, the sun with pink color ray with gold-yellow silhouette drift on slowly from east horizon. It will grab you in to the different atmosphere and unforgettable moment that you never imagine before. After that, proceeding drive back to Bromo crater to witness the crater from closed. Back to the hotel for breakfast, short back packing and heading to Ijen volcano in Bondowoso. Around 5 hours drive en routing flat and hilly curves road, stop for picture taking would be an option subject to your interest. Check-in the Ijen Resort hotel and stay overnight.

Day 3 >> Ijen – Surabaya / Ferry Terminal Banyuwangi
Early in the morning, well before sunrise, we drive a short way to the start of the trail that leads up to the active, beautiful crater of Kawah Ijen volcano (about 1 hr climbing) with its famous blue acid lake (the most acidic in the world!) and the hot, partly liquid sulphur deposits .
The fumaroles are so hot that sulphur comes out as green vapour. The vapour is collected by large pipes, through which the vapor condenses, and at the exit you see red rivulets of liquid sulphur, which then freeze to solid deposits.? These deposits are quarried, in order to obtain huge blocks of pure sulphur. Ijen's sulphur deposits are infamous for the local workers who quarry the sulphur with primitive, health-devastating methods,- an incredibly difficult job.
Gas-masks are provided for your visit to the crater. After plenty of exploration time, we leave the Ijen Plateau transfer to Surabaya airport or other destinations.

Finally, I wish have a nice journey and safe trip.

See you in Bromo..