Fire Mountains of Java and Bali - Tour Photos (Aug-Sep 2006)

Fire Mountains of Java and Bali (Aug-Sep 06) tour photos:

Ash cloud erupted from Semeru

Welirang | Semeru | Bromo-Tengger caldera | Ijen | Bali

It's still night when we arrive at our observation post SW of Merapi

This area was devastated by a pyroclastic flow in June

Merapi's glowing rockfalls - an impressive sight at night

Seismograph recording Merapi's rumblings

Lo in front of a house half buried by the 14 June 2006 pyroclastic flow

Natural bath on Bali

Children practising dance

Scooter heroes

Fun ride on open 4WD

Javanese dishes

Fire wood for the camp

Ralf with a group of Javanese students

Narrow trails

Holger and Lo

Our camp equipment

Welirang volcano

Hans-Georg on Welirang at sunrise, erupting Semeru in the far background

Fresh air;-) near the "kitchen" of Welirang

Sulphur stalactites from a sulphur spring

Break on the trek up the mountain

Pile of sieved sulphur in the miners'village

Fumaroles in the "kitchen" near the main crater

Semeru volcano

Semeru's frequent ash eruptions seen from the trail towards the base camp

Group photo

Lake Kumbolo (half-way point)

Semeru from the S side at dawn

Zoom onto the crater

Strombolian eruption at night

Ash cloud from the crater

On the summit at sunrise with the shadow of the mountain

Descending through loose ash

Descending towards the base camp

After 3 days of trekking, some prefer to take the last hundreds meters by "taxi"...

Bromo volcano & Tengger caldera

Holger and Lo enjoying the sun

Tengger caldera at sunrise

View onto Batok, Bromo and Semeru in the early morning

4WD road into the sand sea

Car 1 in front of us...

Grass on the flat caldera floor

Sunset happening (Panangjakan)

The Hindu temple at Bromo volcano

The narrow edge of Bromo's crater

Deep canyons on Bromo's ash flanks

View into Bromo's crater

Bromo seen from the hotel

View down outside from the crater rim

The steep stairs leading up to Bromo's crater

Bromo crater

Ralf, Rixa and Hans-Georg

View back to Arjuno-Welirang

Flower on the hike back from Panangjakan

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View onto the caldera during our motning hike

Ijen volcano

Dinner table

Javanese urah dish

Ijen's crater lake

Miners carrying up to 100 kg of solid sulphur from the crater

The crater rim and Ijen's sulphur dioxide cloud

Inside the crater at the sulphur mine

Bali

View back to Java

At the hotel pool

Evening atmosphere on the beach

Flower

Cloves

Girl sorting cloves

Little girl selling souvenirs

Vew from the top of Batur onto its 1984 lava flow

Crater row on the flank of Batur

View onto Batur and the caldera

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