Mount Ijen

Mount Ijen or Kawah Ijen

From Yoschi Hotel 1012am , we heading to Mt Ijen already. 

Of Cause all of us damn tired... dont know who took our sleepy look ler... 

damn notty!

well, we did ask Adi to help us arrange the tour from Mt Bromo to Mt Ijen 

Price : IDR 385000 per/ pax

which including guest house / transportation fees from Yoshi to Mt Ijen to Bayuwangi to Surubaya town/ breakfast as well.

dinner - on our own expenses (but not nice ) yuck!

We actually by pass the sea while heading there

Again, when you reach Mt Ijen entrance please pay your own entrance fees dont depend your driver to pay on your behalf .....ok

Mt Ijen entrance fees :IDR 25000

We reach to Catimor Homestay at 1700 

Imagine we have from Mt Bromo to Mt Ijen almost 7 hours!

with only 1 hour stop for lunch 

Damn tiring!!!!

But your reward is the Hot Spring water where you can enjoy in the Catimor Guest House or you may choose to use the outside the Catimor  there another hot spring too and if you have enough time we might want to going up hill to waterfall

Unfortunately, we reach there too late. We have not enough time to go Waterfall.

But i do enjoy the Hot Spring especially its rain! 

Its Hot and Cold kinda feeling!

Emmmmmmm lets talk about the room!

Totally disappointed!

dont expect to much ler

We even found leech in our bathroom!!!!!!!!

Argh! and the staff argue with us thats not a leech!!!

damn him! when we said "lets put the little creature on your hand then we found out if it leech or not "

HE chicken out! thought we are stupid.... can't tell what is leech look like!

bad review for the room and the bathroom ...Yucks! dirty !

 

Ok come to our story here again

Wake up at 0345 get ourselves ready + packing our bag

0400 had our quick breakfast 

0435 start our journey up to Mt ijen

Road Condition : Off Road 

as we will pass by the coffee plantation along the way

Here we bump into a worker started carry out the sulfur 

Close up picture of the sulfur

Anyway, for those have problem going up you may rent the bamboo stick only IDR1,000(RM0.35cents)

start our journey from base camp - we need to walk up to hill for 2.5km

perfect view for the mountain 

Yes we manage to reach first but ......

its very cloudy!

Apparently, the recommendation time to start hiking is 0400 and must reach to top before 0700 so you can enjoy the perfect view of the turquoise lake with clear sky.

We reach there at the about 0730 because we started late as we reach the base camp about 0515

Anyway, we did hired one of the worker to bring us down to the bottom for more clearly picture for the lake and how they process the out sulfur. So, again its also depend your bargain skill of getting the best price.....

or you may choose to walk down on your own of cause you must be careful for not disturb their way. As my understanding each basket they carried total weight roughly about 70kg to 80kg everyday.

Gosh! Man here is new gym for you...!
Real training!!!!

Me..... in action!!!!

of cox is really not recommend for those who have asthma 

the sulfur smell is really very strong

FYI, total time to walk down and uphill is 1 hours
a lot of time we need to give way to worker to walk up hill.

Hooray!

We are HERE!

for sure and confirm the Water really in blue colour 

According to worker sometime the lake turn into red/yellow and even green colour

but he said its very rare cases

when we ask why its can turn into red/green.yellow 

well, he also dont know

We see how the sulfur being process out .

Its really priceless experiences 

Well we finish our tour and reach base camp about 0945 ;) 

with full of smile 

For those who plan to go Bali you may the ask your driver to take you Bayawangi to take express bus + ferry from there 2 hours from MT Ijen

For those for want to go back to Surabaya its will take roughly 5 hours 

If to airport i think should be about the same time too....

i Hope this information help you guys