Travelling about

INDONESIA | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [372] | View Smaller Image

Waiting for sunrise on Mt Pananjakan, late arriving tourists try to obtain better viewing positions by climbing onto the communications building under the illumination of moonlight and security lights. Viewing the sunrise from this location is one of the main attractions of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park and the tourists are four deep around the edge of the platform.

Lit only by moonlight, the view from Cemoro Lawang on the edge of the Tengger Caldera shows the Sea of Sand (Segara Wedi) covered by fog at 4:30am. Mt Bromo can be seen steaming to the left while the majestic Mt Batok is to the right. The early start is to enable us to get to view the sunrise over the Tengger Caldera, a 45 minute trip in a 4-wheel drive down into the caldera, across the Sea of Sand and up Mt Pananjakan on a different side of the caldera to the usual viewing location.

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Sunrise over Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. To the left Mt Bromo steams in the early morning cold air while Mt Batok, the only non active volcano in the park, is the perfect volcano cone in the foreground. In the distance the highest peak on Java, Mt Semeru, can be seen.

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