We stayed up to watch the England vs. Algeria game at 2.30am, which shows our dedication to the team but they played shit and wished I never stayed up. We were travelling at 8am and with 4hrs sleep, we had a long journey ahead of us-a nice 15hrs when it was meant to be 10. It seems this is how Indonesia works, that they tell you a time but it ALWAYS takes longer. We got to our hotel, which is in the nearest village to Gunung Bromo, and just had enough time for food before we went to bed.
Gunung Bromo is probably the most visited active volcano in Indonesia, it has a rough pattern of erupting every 2-4 years. The crazy thing is that there are bigger more active volcanoes all over Indonesia but these require tours and days of trekking, so it ends up being expensive. We got up at 3.30am, another night of 4hrs sleep and we started to make our trek to the volcano. Everyone was making their way to the viewpoint with 4x4's which see's over Bromo and the other surrounding volcanoes, including the big daddy Gunung Semeru, but we decided against it and did it our own way. It was an hours walk to the top and it was fairly easy but the hard part was walking in the dark as we forgot the torch. At first it was ok using the 4x4's lights but once we were on the path, we couldn't see anything! So we paid a guy to take us with his horse to the foot of the volcano and then we nabbed his lighter that had a torch to get our moneys worth.
Once we got to the top, we were surrounded by Indonesians who were there to see the sunset on the one and only platform, so we decided to go and find our own viewpoint by walking around the crater. I stopped and walked the other way around because there was no path and there were huge drops on either side-fuck that! Dan who loves the outdoors carried on and I just met him halfway on the other side. The volcano itself was letting off constant steam from the hot lava in the middle of the crator, but it left an eggy smell, which had me gipping for most of the time. When the sun came up, that was when we could appreciate the volcano and the surroundings truly-it just seemed like a different planet. We took our pics and posed in all the Indonesian pics (standard thing now) and made our way back to the hotel for breakfast and a shower before another long day of travel ahead of us, and you lot think we've gone on a long holiday-jeez!
Gunung Bromo Photo Link:
http://www3.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=5871189011/a=2264773011_2264773011/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/
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