Fire Mountains of Java and Bali (Aug-Sep 06) tour photos:
Ash cloud erupted from Semeru
Welirang | Semeru | Bromo-Tengger caldera | Ijen | Bali
It's still night when we arrive at our observation post SW of Merapi
This area was devastated by a pyroclastic flow in June
Merapi's glowing rockfalls - an impressive sight at night
Seismograph recording Merapi's rumblings
Lo in front of a house half buried by the 14 June 2006 pyroclastic flow
Natural bath on Bali
Children practising dance
Scooter heroes
Fun ride on open 4WD
Javanese dishes
Fire wood for the camp
Ralf with a group of Javanese students
Narrow trails
Holger and Lo
Our camp equipment
Welirang volcano
Hans-Georg on Welirang at sunrise, erupting Semeru in the far background
Fresh air;-) near the "kitchen" of Welirang
Sulphur stalactites from a sulphur spring
Break on the trek up the mountain
Pile of sieved sulphur in the miners' village
Fumaroles in the "kitchen" near the main crater
Semeru volcano
Semeru's frequent ash eruptions seen from the trail towards the base camp
Group photo
Lake Kumbolo (half-way point)
Semeru from the S side at dawn
Zoom onto the crater
Strombolian eruption at night
Ash cloud from the crater
On the summit at sunrise with the shadow of the mountain
Descending through loose ash
Descending towards the base camp
After 3 days of trekking, some prefer to take the last hundreds meters by "taxi"...
Bromo volcano & Tengger caldera
Holger and Lo enjoying the sun
Tengger caldera at sunrise
View onto Batok, Bromo and Semeru in the early morning
4WD road into the sand sea
Car 1 in front of us...
Grass on the flat caldera floor
Sunset happening (Panangjakan)
The Hindu temple at Bromo volcano
The narrow edge of Bromo's crater
Deep canyons on Bromo's ash flanks
View into Bromo's crater
Bromo seen from the hotel
View down outside from the crater rim
The steep stairs leading up to Bromo's crater
Bromo crater
Ralf, Rixa and Hans-Georg
View back to Arjuno-Welirang
Flower on the hike back from Panangjakan
VolcanoDiscovery
View onto the caldera during our motning hike
Ijen volcano
Dinner table
Javanese urah dish
Ijen's crater lake
Miners carrying up to 100 kg of solid sulphur from the crater
The crater rim and Ijen's sulphur dioxide cloud
Inside the crater at the sulphur mine
Bali
View back to Java
At the hotel pool
Evening atmosphere on the beach
Flower
Cloves
Girl sorting cloves
Little girl selling souvenirs
Vew from the top of Batur onto its 1984 lava flow
Crater row on the flank of Batur
View onto Batur and the caldera
