Jalan Jalan Java – Part 4, Mt. Bromo.
Mt. Bromo was undoubtedly the highlight of the Indonesia trip.
The Mt. Bromo area – Cemoro Lawang is surprisingly limitedly tourist friendly. We managed to find one sleek café which is also a hotel – Java Banana Bromo. Definitely the best place to stay in Cemoro Lawang and eat – with a gallery of Mt. Bromo and the crater, books on Mt. Bromo and Indonesia, it’s also a lovely place to hang.
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Mt. Bromo – Still active, still bubbling away, still terrifying.
We awoke at 4am took a jerky and halting jeep ride to the sunrise point where its possible to see the crater and its volcanoes in their magnificence. Needless to say – its only a perfect sunrise which makes for epic photography (apparently we should have gone in July, not in January).
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Our driver also took us to the middle of the crater – where you can see the volcanoes around you. Stunning. Seriously.
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Then we got to Mr. Bromo. You can take a horse (more a pony really) – another terrifying experience for the non-horserider aka Kish. A 20 – 40 minute walk up the volcano to its brim and you’re at the top. It’s amazing and beautiful and scary and so worth it. You’re so close to the edge and the height is whoa. Its one of those things you have to see once in your lifetime (more if you’re lucky) – and feel the intenseness of it.
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