If you are planning to visit Mt Bromo and Ijen Crater in East Java, there are for info that you may need to know:
Prepare with warm clothing. For people used to live in cold weather maybe the temperature will not be a problem, but no harm preparing this. Make sure you bring socks, hat to prevent from wind, scarfs, few Indonesian wear gloves when visiting Bromo. And even if you dont bring jacket you can rent jacket for Rp.20.000, and buy hat or scarf at Bromo area. Do not fporget to bargain.
Flashlight will be helpful for you to climb Mt Penanjakan, if there is no moonlight, it could be hard to see your way. If you go with tour operator, usually guide is already prepared with flashlight and mask.
After Bromo eruption from Nov 2010 to May 2011, Bromo was in alert status. So people could only see MT Bromo from radius 2 KM. And because of the erossion of road from Cemoro Lawang to Mt Penanjakan, if you are from Cemoro Lawang you will have to trekk from Cemoro Lawang to Mt Penanjakan for about 1 hour to get to the summit of Mt Penanjakan, as Jeep that usually transport tourist from Cemoro Lawang to Penanjakan can not pass the broken road. So depart at 03.00 from your hotel to climb Mt Penanjakan. From hotel you can take jeep or motorbike taxi or walk to the foot of Mt penanjakan. If you are from Tosari, pasurian Regency, the road to Mt Penanjakan is still accesible by jeep but jeep can not drive to sea of sand and Mt Bromo, and you can take ojek instead to go to Mt Bromo.
When visiting Mt Bromo, you can also take excursion to the wispering savanna by driving Jeep. If you like to see more of local people (tenggerese) activities, or wander a bit, do it after arriving in Cemoro Lawang, you will make nice shots to bring home. If you feel you are just interested to see sunrise and see the crater of Mt Bromo, you can depart midnight from Surabaya.
Blue Lava of Ijen crater can be seen when it is still dark, you should depart at 1 or 2 am from hotel for this purpose.
Prepare yourself with mask when visiting IJen crater, wet your mask with water will better filter the sulphure in the air.
And sure you should wear sneakers!
Have nice trip to Bromo and Ijen guys!
AppleThis plantation is located in Batu City and not far from Coban Rondo Waterfall. Located at the slope of Panderman Hill and latitude of more than 1000 m makes this plantation have cool temperature and nice scenery.
Kusuma Agro is popular for its apple plantation but it has also other commodity such as strawberry, coffee, guava, orange, dragon fruit, and hydroponics vegetables that are pesticide-free. You can enjoy guided plantation tour to know how they grow the plants and as well picking apples or other fruits in season. The guide will show you how to pick the apples correctly and easily.
There are few species of apples that are planted here such as Anna, Rome Beauty, and Manalagi Apple. Rome beauty has red as dominant color with slightly green-yellow skin, round-shaped, taste sour and sweet and the fruits a bit hard to bite and chew. Anna Apple has elips shape with green to yellow color, it tastes sour and crunchy. While Manalagi Apple has green to yellow color, round shape, sweet, a bit hard to bite but crunchy.
There are packages of plantation tour available and it is also included with drinking Apple Juice after strolling under the sun through the plantation. Here you can buy souvenirs and also food or snacks made of fruits that are locally processed such as apple extract, apple jelly, apple chips, strawberry jelly and many more.
Coban RondoLocated in Malang Regency with good accessibility. This waterfall height is 80 m and average temperature on this site is 22 deg. To enjoy the fresh waterfall, you need to walk around 50 m from the parking area. You will be welcomed be grey monkeys, and refreshing green landscape. The fresh temperature of this area attracts visitors from Surabaya and surroundings to enjoy weekend and holidays here.
Beside having waterfall as the core of the attraction, outbound activities and camping ground are provided to accommodate visitors activities. Children would love to bath at the waterfall or at the river flowing from the waterfall that has clear water. Visitors can sit and relax and eat grilled corns sold at the side of parking areas. No wonder families flock to this waterfall. Continue reading Coban Rondo Waterfall, Batu, East Java, Indonesia→
Mt Bromo is one of the most interesting landscape in Indonesia and one of its kind in the world. Mt Bromo itself located in Bromo Tengger National Park located in East Java and apart of 5 regencies, namely : Malang, Pasuruan, Probolinggo and Lumajang. The common entrances to Mt Bromo are Probolinggo and Pasuruan.
Mt Bromo (2.392 m) stands in the middle of 10 KM diameter of caldera and surrounded by Mt Penanjakan (2700 m). The average temperature in Bromo is 7° – 18° C. The latest eruption of this volcano was on November 2010 until April that the government officially closed Bromo for tourists and stated alert status or radius 2 KM from Bromo. This eruption had destroyed farmers’ crops with its ashes. Continue reading Bromo Volcano : One of its kind, East Java, Indonesia→
House of Sampoerna Museum is located in the middle of of Surabaya city. It is accessible by public transportation in the city. House of Sampoerna was an orphanage in Dutch colonial era and change its function as cigarettes factory after bought by Liem Seeng Tee, the founder of Sampoerna and further this factory grew bigger and stronger.
The museum plant was used as museum since 2003, while the complex is now still functioning as factory. Museum displayed the belonging of the founder of Sampoerna and also displayed the history of the company. At the third floor where you could not take photograph, you can see the atmosphere of cigarettes factory where women roll and pack cigarettes in an unbelievable speed using traditional equipment. And it is not common cigarettes they roll, but kretek cigarettes. Continue reading House Of Sampoerna, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia→
Madakaripura Fall is located in Probolinggo and it is right on the way to Mt Bromo, where you just need to turn right where the sign of the location stand. It is just 5 Km from Sukapura.The road is easy to access though it get narrower when reaching further.
Ijen crater is located in the eastern part of East Java. Administratively located in Bondowoso and Banyuwangi Regency. This crater is standing among other mountains such as the active Mt Raung (3,332 M), Mt Suket, Mt Pendil. You can reach from Banyuwangi or Bondowoso. Road to Ijen from Banyuwangi is considered as very bumpy that you will need a 4×4 transport.If you are from Surabaya you can access from Bondowoso as it is closer and road is not that steep and better than via Banyuwangi.
This green tosca crater lake lies hidden in the bottom of a giant bowl of Ijen Plateau summit, with depth of 200 m, and known as the biggest acid crater in the world with PH of 0.5. To get to this beautiful crater, you need to trek for 3.5 KM from Paltuding to the crater rim with steep mountain track. Once you arrive on the crater rim your hardship is worth effort. The smell of sulfur will thrill your nose more when you are closer to the crater. Continue reading Ijen Crater : a must-visit place for nature lovers, East Java, Indonesia→
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