At 00.30 we woke up, went to eat breakfast (a toast and an egg) and left to drive towards Ijen Krater. Only a short 45 minutes drive away we got to the place where the hike started. Andi was our tour guide.
It was a three or four kilometre trek UPHILL! In the middle of the night! I hated every second of that up hill walk! My knee hurt, i was tired and just hated it! The higher we got we started to smell this eggy smell of spulphur. I was gagging all the time.
At the top we waited for Andi for ages to get masks from him! From the crater we started to descent down into the crater with this narrow rocky path in pitch black. It took ages and many careful steps towards the blue fire. On the way down so many people coming up said that it wasn't worth it. The smell got stronger and stronger and my eyes were stinging and Steve wasn't feeling good at all, really anxious. We decided to turn back up. When our group got back up later their pics were not good at all. So we didn't really miss out on anything.
We got to see the work men in action carrying sulphur up on their shoulders weighing 50-80 kilos. Up the rocky paths they went and so so fast with terrible shoes hoping not to step on loose stones. Up from the crater to the villages and back twice a day..
When we started to walk back in a day light we could see how steep the mountain really was!! Ridiculous. I could have laid down and I woulda been standing up...
After surviving down from the volcano we asked our driver to stop somewhere for breakfast. Well, we were all so tired so we fell asleep and woke up when he announced that we were at the harbour.. No breakfast, no waterfall, coffee plantation (tho we stopped once since this girl needed to pee and he said on the right is coffee plantation.. xD).. At the ferry terminal we were the only ones the driver bought tickets to.. Good thing we had asked to write everything down.. The ferry ticket was only 7500 so not much but still!
We basically walked straight to the ferry (after the fight with the driver). The boat left instantly and took around 30-40 minutes. We had decided to head towards the Kuta Beach as had everyone else also. So we started haggling the prices down from private cars.. The prices they offered for us at the bus terminal both for private and public ones were ridiculous.
Eventually we got the deal down to 600 000 for all of us (7?) to Kuta, not Denpasar..
It was a three or four kilometre trek UPHILL! In the middle of the night! I hated every second of that up hill walk! My knee hurt, i was tired and just hated it! The higher we got we started to smell this eggy smell of spulphur. I was gagging all the time.
At the top we waited for Andi for ages to get masks from him! From the crater we started to descent down into the crater with this narrow rocky path in pitch black. It took ages and many careful steps towards the blue fire. On the way down so many people coming up said that it wasn't worth it. The smell got stronger and stronger and my eyes were stinging and Steve wasn't feeling good at all, really anxious. We decided to turn back up. When our group got back up later their pics were not good at all. So we didn't really miss out on anything.
We got to see the work men in action carrying sulphur up on their shoulders weighing 50-80 kilos. Up the rocky paths they went and so so fast with terrible shoes hoping not to step on loose stones. Up from the crater to the villages and back twice a day..
When we started to walk back in a day light we could see how steep the mountain really was!! Ridiculous. I could have laid down and I woulda been standing up...
After surviving down from the volcano we asked our driver to stop somewhere for breakfast. Well, we were all so tired so we fell asleep and woke up when he announced that we were at the harbour.. No breakfast, no waterfall, coffee plantation (tho we stopped once since this girl needed to pee and he said on the right is coffee plantation.. xD).. At the ferry terminal we were the only ones the driver bought tickets to.. Good thing we had asked to write everything down.. The ferry ticket was only 7500 so not much but still!
We basically walked straight to the ferry (after the fight with the driver). The boat left instantly and took around 30-40 minutes. We had decided to head towards the Kuta Beach as had everyone else also. So we started haggling the prices down from private cars.. The prices they offered for us at the bus terminal both for private and public ones were ridiculous.
Eventually we got the deal down to 600 000 for all of us (7?) to Kuta, not Denpasar..
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