Bromo volcano
19th to 21st June, Java Indonesia
19th Situbondo
So I decided to stay in Situbondo for the day.
A delightfully random place to stop, totaly off the tourist trail, I'm pretty sure I'm the only western in town. Loads of stares and hellos, bycicle taxis, food stalls etc. I went to the beach for the morning. "Why do tourists like the beach?" my Indonesian friend asked. I found it hard to come up with a good answer, something to do with turning their skin red I think. Asians don't like to go out in the sun as it will make their skin darker and light skin is most desirable don't you know. You know the way girls at home ware loads of mascara and can look like orange skinned umpa lumpas under flash photography, well here it's skin whitening cream. Can look a bit ghost like under flash photography.
20th Mt. Bromo
Ok so better get back to doing some touristy stuff or people might think I'm getting slack, so off to see Bromo volcano. Long bus journey to Probolingo, no overcharging, change given, wuhoo. The coaches on Java are pretty straight forward, (like south america that is). Big, cheap, frequent, not too much hanging around, loads of people selling snack etc. Indonesian stomachs aren't as strong as the roads are bumpy so sick back are provided and frequently availed of.
Then it's a Bemo up the hill to the volcano, tourist sight so tourist pricing. Generally it seems a fairly straight forward calculation for much everyday stuff, tourist price = local price multiplied by two. I managed to negociate 15 down to 10 with alot of work. Bemos are small overcrowded and slow. Drivers often drive at walking speed to allow for customers to arrive further up the road. Your only chance is when one catches up with another then it's a race to get to the waiting customers.
The hotel has a great view over the active Bromo volcano which is only an hours walk up to the rim where you can look in to where all those gasses are coming from, fairly smelly, cool.
I met two dutch guys who had hired a car and driver to get there and bring them up to see the sunrise from the nearby mountain the next morning, this is the thing (touristy thing) to do at Bromo and they offer me a lift.
21st June
So a 3am start, and a jeep up to the viewing point. Plenty of time for a half an hour at the clutch of tourist stalls
19th Situbondo
So I decided to stay in Situbondo for the day.
A delightfully random place to stop, totaly off the tourist trail, I'm pretty sure I'm the only western in town. Loads of stares and hellos, bycicle taxis, food stalls etc. I went to the beach for the morning. "Why do tourists like the beach?" my Indonesian friend asked. I found it hard to come up with a good answer, something to do with turning their skin red I think. Asians don't like to go out in the sun as it will make their skin darker and light skin is most desirable don't you know. You know the way girls at home ware loads of mascara and can look like orange skinned umpa lumpas under flash photography, well here it's skin whitening cream. Can look a bit ghost like under flash photography.
20th Mt. Bromo
Ok so better get back to doing some touristy stuff or people might think I'm getting slack, so off to see Bromo volcano. Long bus journey to Probolingo, no overcharging, change given, wuhoo. The coaches on Java are pretty straight forward, (like south america that is). Big, cheap, frequent, not too much hanging around, loads of people selling snack etc. Indonesian stomachs aren't as strong as the roads are bumpy so sick back are provided and frequently availed of.
Then it's a Bemo up the hill to the volcano, tourist sight so tourist pricing. Generally it seems a fairly straight forward calculation for much everyday stuff, tourist price = local price multiplied by two. I managed to negociate 15 down to 10 with alot of work. Bemos are small overcrowded and slow. Drivers often drive at walking speed to allow for customers to arrive further up the road. Your only chance is when one catches up with another then it's a race to get to the waiting customers.
The hotel has a great view over the active Bromo volcano which is only an hours walk up to the rim where you can look in to where all those gasses are coming from, fairly smelly, cool.
I met two dutch guys who had hired a car and driver to get there and bring them up to see the sunrise from the nearby mountain the next morning, this is the thing (touristy thing) to do at Bromo and they offer me a lift.
21st June
So a 3am start, and a jeep up to the viewing point. Plenty of time for a half an hour at the clutch of tourist stalls
posted by conor at 5:49 PM
1 Comments:
Choice!!!!!!
So the sunrise foto i asked for yesterday will already be taken by now! Good boy, I like that!!! :))
Take care on the volcano, no falling in please.
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