Hash :: Mount Andong > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia (3)

This is the 3rd time I'm hiking at Mount Andong.

Today, I climb with my friends. We all 8 people. Today is my friend birthday, so she wants to celebrate it by hiking at Mount Andong.

From Magelang, go to Kopeng direction, before Ngablak market turn left.

Follow the road.

There will be a sign, that the place is Mount Andong basecamp. So you don't have to worry. The entrance ticket : IDR 5.000/pax and IDR 5.000/car.

There's 2 rest area while climbing. After passed 2nd rest area, you will see this beautiful scenery.

Then after almost 1 hour and 40 minutes climbing, I arrive at the peak. This time, I walk really slow because I accompany one of my friend. Usually, it only took 1 hour and 15 minutes.

When you see this scene, then you have arrived at the peak

Mount Andont's Peak, 1726 MASL

The weather is nice, but the wind blew so strong. We didn't accross the devil's bridge / cow's back shape bridge because of the wind.

We celebrate my friend's birthday, by take picture. She brought the birthday banner.

At the Andong's Peak, you can see 5 and more mountain: Mount Merbabu, Mount Merapi, Mount Sumbing, Mount Sindoro, Mount Lawu, Mount Telomoyo, and Mount Ungaran.

Then we rest while eating noodle in one of the stan on Andong's Peak.
After a while, we go back down which not too easy because it's slipery. It took 1 hour and 18 minutes to go down.

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Hash :: Mount Andong > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia (2)

Today, out site is hiking mount Andong again. This time, a lot of hasher wants to try to climb until the peak. As for me, I want to cross the devil's bridge because last time I didn't cross the bridge.. :D

We arrive at the basecamp, and start to hike

We start to hike, and go to the 1st stop. This is the trail, if you never jogging / hiking, then you have to climb slowly, don't too rush.

There's 2 rest post in here. Use it well, but I thought that you can't stop too long, or your muscle will stiff.

After the 2nd post, the path is started to more extreme.

But we can start to see the beautiful scenery.

And it started to feel hot because of the sun.

If you see this mountain, then you will arrive at the peak soon.

Finally, after about 45 minutes, we arrive at the peak.

This is the Devil's Bridge / you can see it as the back of a cow.

Becarefull while crossing the bridge, because the width is only about 30cm.

Both side is cliff, don't see the downside too often, or you will be dizzy.

Finally, I'm on the other side of the peak. It's beautiful. We can see almost 7 mountain in here. We take picture so many.

Telomoyo Mountain

Merapi and Merbabu Mountain

Then we go back down. It's more steep when we go down, so you have to be more careful.

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Hash :: Pulosaren > Magelang ~ Central Java ~ Indonesia

Today Hash route is at Pulosaren, a village in Magelang Regency.

Parking place is Pulosaren Soccer Field, near the traditional market. 

If you go straight, you will arrive at Wonosobo. Go to Kaliangkrik direction from Magelang then go straight. In the middle of the road, there's three section then turn right. Just follow the road until you pass a market and there's a soccer field in there.

The route distance is 1.85km with beautiful scene. Altought the weather is really cold (less than 20 degree celcius), but didn't make us afraid to walk.

The scene is beautiful. At first, we walk along of the main road then turn right. We walk in the small path with Mt Sumbing as the background and also along the path there's so many plants like tobaco, cabbage, and etc.

Bromo -- Jember -- Banyuwangi -- Gilimanuk -- Ijen Day 5 - 2015 June 13 > East Java ~ Indonesia

We woke up early, then depart from Jember at 02:30 in the morning. It took almost 3 hours to go to Ijen Crater. Ijen crater located in the middle of Jember and Banyuwangi, but Banyuwangi is nearer than Jember. So it's better if you stay at Banyuwangi.

Credit: Wikipedia

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in the Banyuwangi Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name "Gunung Merapi" means "mountain of fire" in the Indonesian language (api being "fire"); Mount Merapi in central Java and Marapi in Sumatra have the same etymology.

West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acidic 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. The work is paid well considering the cost of living in the area, but is very onerous. Workers earn around Rp 50,000 - 75,000 ($5.50-$8.30) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Paltuding Valley to get paid.

Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones run east-west across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has a diameter of 722 metres (2,369 ft) and a surface area of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).

The lake is recognised as the largest highly acidic crater lake in the world. It is also a source for the river Banyupahit, resulting in highly acidic and metal-enriched river water which has a significant detrimental effect on the downstream river ecosystem. In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.

The path to the peak

view while hiking

view while hiking 

After a while, we arrive at Pondok Bunder Kawah Idjen. This is the first post, so you can rest in here.

After rest for a while, then we continue to hike.

The path is getting slipier

view while Hiking

We are getting near the peak

Almost arrive at the peak

After a while, finally we arrive at the peak. From far away, you can see a beautiful scene.

Ijen Crater

Ijen Crater

Sulfur Worker, they climb and go down twice a day

when it's dark, on the spot that release the smoke, there's blue fire

We can't go down there because it's dangerous

Enjoy the scene...

 After a while, the sun is getting hot. And it's almost 10 a.m. So we decided to go down.

When we go down, it's more slippery than when we go up. So, you have to becareful. And it's more tiring because we need to break our foot, and it hurts the knee. But it's faster than when you go up. We only took 1 hour to go down.

The Ijen Crater Basecamp

Sulfur Stone

Today's journey only go to Ijen Crater, because it took a lot of time and energy. So, we go back to Jember to rest.