Views of plantation along the way.
Start of the trek, this is when i noticed that i have signed up for a Trekking Photography Tour instead of a relaxing one.
Going up the this Kawah Ijen is not easy...every turn shows a slope and as you climb, it gets steeper and steeper. I was praying so hard that i could finish it.
The weather was harsh as well with drizzle and at times a short downpour.
Sulfur Miners...for each trip that they make with 100kg of Sulphur, they earn roughly SGD$10..i took about 1.30 hrs to reach the top of the crater without going down the crater and yet they can finish the course within an hour with 100kg on their back.
Solid Sulfur
They aren't camera shy and they encourage you to take the picture of them but after that, they will keep haunting you for tips
Weighing the weight of the Sulfur before making a trip down
its a common sight when they over take you. try not to walk the path that they walks. If not they will shoo you away.
Leon with 10kg of the weight of his camera!
Taking a break...i know i look terrible!
And finally, i reaches the top and it may be coincident that by the time i reached, the mist and fog was cleared for me to start my photography session.
The view make the worth journey well worth!
Amy shot this for me.
this place allow me to jump..
Me Amy and Aw meng
The place was so rich with Sulfur that you can find them everywhere!
From Wikipedia
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano (not to be confused with Central Java's Gunung Merapi) is the highest point of that complex.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an E-W-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 meters, a surface of 41 × 106 square meters. It is 200 meters deep and has a volume of 36 × 106 cubic meters.
The path down the crater is so dangerous, yet these guys over come them so easily.
A "No" to visitor but yet alot of them went down...the miners even offered to bring the visitor down..
Testing the weight of it...none in our group can lift it off...
It was time to leave the place...as we are late for our hotel check-out.
I thought it was easy to go down slope comparing to upslope..but i was very wrong! Especially when im not in my trekking shoes.
Tourist from Thailand along our way down..we disturbed them by telling them that they will need another 2 hrs to reach the top!
I believed they had the last laugh..sigh..i really need to train my physical fitness up. I was the last going up and coming down the volcano..
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