Bromo

From Bali we took a bus and ferry to get to Java, Indonesia's main island and the island with the highest population density. We slept one night in Probolinggo, on the way to Surabaya, and the following day we went up to Gunung Bromo. We stayed in Cemero Lawang, a small village on the edge of a big caldera on about 2200 meters altitude. This place is famous for Gunung Bromo, a volcano where normally smokes comes out, situated in a big caldera (10 km diameter) with 3 other mountains, and especially to see this region at sunrise!



Gunung Bromo (the peak on the right in the first pic) is about 2300 meters high. Next to it are some other volcano peaks and all are inside a big caldera with quite steep walls.

Well, that's the famous view from the sunrise viewpoint (at 2700 meters where it was freezing cold). We were there for sunrise (at about 5.45), but unfortunately at this time we couldn't see anything except fog... We had to wait more than 1 hour to see something. Finally it was still very cloudy, but at least we could see a bit of Bromo (inside the clouds on the left) which is situated in the big caldera (not possible to see) and behind (best visible) is Gunung Semeru, Java's highest volcano (altitude about 3600 meters).

On the top of Gunung Bromo where we could see the landscape towards the caldera. It's a 45 minutes walk from the village down the caldera and up to Bromo, the final part are about 200 steps. However this one is an easy volcano compared with some other one's.