Ijen Crater Best Travel WorldLovers of traveling in our trip this time we will invite you to visit tourist areas crater Banyuwangi. To go into the crater, we start the journey from Denpasar-banyuwangi. Mount Ijen Crater is one tourist destination in East Java, which is always crowded domestic and foreign tourists. To go into the crater, will travel across the beauty of protected forests and coffee plantations. Sometimes, along the way to the crater, visible sulfur mine workers were in the vehicle trucks heading to the crater, the journey is very challenging and certainly exhausting. Ijen Crater Finally we arrived at Paltuding region, an area that is a starting point toward the crater.
Spectacular scenery at an altitude of 30.000 ft from the window of the plane left Surabaya-Denpasar gave birth to a question about the location of a green lake tosca at an altitude of 2.000 meters. Lake they will likely be inside the crater of the caldera wall as high as 300-500m. A towering mountain peak located beside it. White smoke billowing from one of the crater were soaring high into the air, making the contrast with the surrounding environment of green jade.
Crater tsb. Ijen crater was called, situated in Banyuwangi, East Java. Spot was never published and well known in France through Adventure Ushuwaia impressions showing the-explorer Nicolai Hulot, sitting on a rubber boat told me about the origins of the lake of Ijen with zero degrees of acidity, has a depth of 200 meters and the volume of nearly 40 million cubic meters, one world's largest crater lake. Acidity is strong enough to dissolve the clothes and fingers. Views bird view camera helicopter was then switched to the edge of the caldera which shows penambang2 crater is struggling to climb carrying tens of kilograms of cargo.
Ijen crater was easy to be visited through Banyuwangi or Bondowoso. The uniqueness of the main crater of the tour apart from the exquisite a view is to see a traditional sulfur mining transported borne by human power. Traditional mining is said to exist only on Indonesia alone (Welirang and Ijen). Expenses are transported each weighing up to 85kg per person. This remarkable heavy burden for most people, when sulfur is transported through the steep caldera wall and 800m down the mountain as far as 3km. Income received by a bearing on average 25 thousand rupiah per day, or about 300 dollars per kilo. A bearer is usually only able to bring down one time every day, because the weight of the job. A few hundred yards there is a round building of ancient relics of the Netherlands said "Irrigation crater", which is now known as the Round Post, an outpost where miners weigh the cargo and get a piece of paper about the content and value.
Travel tour to the crater Ijen, starting from Paltuding 1.600 masl, an outpost at the foot of Mount Merapi Perhutani-Ijen. From here a dirt road continues to climb to an altitude of 2.400 m above sea level and takes about 2 hours leisurely stroll. Along the way many sulfur bearers ran into a friendly exchange greetings. Arrive at the lip of the crater, stunning scenery in front of the eye. A tosca green lake with a diameter of 1 km covered in mist and sulfur fumes were far below. Sulfur-miner miner looks small from the top. To go to the source of sulfur tsb., we need to down the caldera cliff rocks along the path trodden by miners. Wet handkerchief is necessary, because sometimes the wind carried the smoke to the path of decline.
Based crater, parallel to the surface of the lake there are other place of extraction of sulfur. Thick white smoke gushed out from a kind of iron pipe which is connected to a source of sulfur. 600oC molten red hot fumaroles melt out and frozen with cold air, forming a bright yellow solid sulfur. Sometimes uncontrolled burning embers fumaroles, which usually immediately drenched with water to prevent a chain reaction piroporik. Sulfur rocks are cut with a crowbar and transported kedlm basket. In an environment such as breathing. It needed its own struggle, the miners generally worked, biting piece of cloth or cloth gloves as makeshift air filter.
In addition to advance straight to the lake, around the caldera ridge dpt done with more or less takes a full day. Climbing to the crater Ijen generally recommended starting in the morning. For security reasons, the climb to the crater of Paltuding closed after 14:00, because pekatnya smoke and the possibility of wind direction that leads into the path of ascent. To pursue the journey in the morning, visitors are advised to stay at the nearest location Bondowoso, clean mountain town, or in Situbondo a coastal town. If you liked the atmosphere of the mountain plantation, a memorable place to stay is the Guest House Plantation Coffee PTP Nusantara XII in Kalisat, Jampit. This guest house is located inside the housing complex plantation at an altitude of about 1.200 masl. Also available Cottage Tours in Paltuding clean enough, or open the tent at the campsite Paltuding. Temparature average around Ijen crater is 13 o C at noon and 2 o C at night.
To reach the crater Ijen is not too difficult. There are two ways, first through Banyuwangi town 38 km to the west through the slippery, Cashew and continue to Paltuding (1.600 masl). The second way is through the city Bondowoso 70 km towards the east through Wonosari, Sempol (800 masl) continues to Paltuding m. The second way is the most widely traveled people because of the smooth asphalt roads, while the first way through macadam road full of steep grades. Foreign tourists after a visit in Bromo usually come through Bondowoso, continue traveling through Banyuwangi, Bali and Lombok.
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