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Perpetual volcanic ash exudes from Mount Bromo making it difficult to breath at times. Although he looks menacing, this man is really just protecting his lungs and staying warm (it's cold at 2,500 meters).
"Poor me, I just want to earn a living, please buy my goods", the Mbok (selling lady) say. taken at nite with flash. in Sarangan Mountain.
Losmen (guest house) Setia Kawan - highly recommended. Let's the kids to experience where a backpacker lives. Small, but neat and convenient. 5 minutes walk to the major shopping area called Malioboro (yes, you can get J-co donuts!)
Embultuk Cave is a natural cave with beautiful stalagmite and stalactite. Embultuk cave is located in Tumpakkepuh village, Bakung district, to the south of Blitar city with a distance of about 40 kilometers. This cave is about 1500 meters long and about 3 meters wide and high.
In full of stalagmite along the length about 1,5 km, you will feel forbear to stay with impressing atmosphere, underground water voice add the natural impression. The visitors have to use ‘petromak’ lamp and double clothes.
Embultuk cave is the only cave in Blitar that presents its unique stalagmite for the visitors. The tour to this cave is crowded of visitors on school holidays, and the road to the cave has been renovated and can be passed by four-wheel vehicles.
Mount Semeru erupts every 15 minutes. You can view the lava flow and hear the rumblings of the eruption at the other side (south side)of the mountain. See our Besuk Bank camp photos
Barren houses stand in the mud, dismantled for timber planks and steel frames. Scavenging acts are common in areas where mud-inundated homes are abandoned by their owners. Since last year mud has been flowing out of a drilling site in East Java, swamping 800 hectares of homes, agricultural plots and factories, displacing 150,000.
Children's drawings on painted plywood walls in a refugee site recall memories of life before tonnes of hot mud had suddenly swallowed their villages, forcing their families to relocate to a marketspace just minutes away from the source of the mud volcano. Since last year mud has been flowing out of a drilling site in East Java, swamping 800 hectares of homes, agricultural plots and factories, displacing 150,000.
SIDOARJO, 15/2 - LAPINDO. Foto udara tanggul cincin yang mengelilingi pusat semburan lumpur panas Lapindo, Porong Sidoarjo, Sabtu (14/2). Korban lumpur panas Lapindo hingga saat ini menunggu kepastian pembayaran ganti rugi 80% yang sudah dua bulan belum dibayarkan oleh pihak Lapindo Brantas. FOTO ANTARA/Eric Ireng/nz/08