Where the volcano is Izden. Attractive and dangerous volcano Ident - Java, Indonesia

And volcanoes are inseparable concepts. Here, in the most seismically active area of \u200b\u200bthe planet, there are impressive giants, constantly extinguishing lava, gases and ashes. Among them there is one special, not having analogue all over the world. It is covered by bright blue shimmer of burning sulfur gas. The radiance is light and visible only in the dark. But it is not lit lava, but gases that come out of Furolol - cracks on the slopes. Sulfuric gases, mixed with water vapors, are called solfate. When leaving the surface, they are self-proposal, reacting with oxygen. Sulfur is responsible for the unusual and beautiful color of fire. Solfattans are densely air. With strong eruptions, they flow on the slopes, forming whole fiery streams ...

Inthen - volcano with blue lava

In fact, this is a whole volcanic complex on the island of Java. It includessymmetric cone-shapedstratovulkany. They are Caldera is bold - a huge recess that occurs when the fiery of fiery mountains.The highest point of the complex - Merapy (2803 m).But K.rater Introduced and especially curious Yen, because he filled hot H.2 SO.4 - sulfuric acid.

Kava Izden - Acid Lake

Kawah ijen, or just Kawach, It has a diameter of 1 km and a depth of 200 meters. Everything is interesting here: water color, sulfur fog, temperature and reservoir depth. The temperature on the surface of the acidic lake reaches 60 degrees Celsius!

A special blue lake is obliged to unique composition - a mixture of sulfur and hydrochloric acids with impurities of various metals. The color and transparency of Water Kava are associated with tectonic activity and change even during the day. The spectrum varies from bright turquoise and green to milk and white and gray.

Sulfur mining on Incen

Near the banks of the Acid Lake, local residents are no longer one hundred years old personally mined sulfur, which is formed as a result of the activities of the volcano. It is actually condensed from the vapor who did not have time to burn. In the most active fumarols (cracks), the yavans are inserted by special pipes, speeding up the condensation process. But the main amount of mineral is produced manually with the help of malls and hammers.

Physically, it is very hard work. During the day, the worker tolerates about 100-150 kg of yellow sulfur, loading them into wicker baskets ... Not to mention the fact that in any second they can be scattered toxic sulfate. It is noteworthy that local rarely dresses masks to protect against evaporation, although tourists are not allowed without them.

This work is officially recognized Harmful and dangerous on the planet. The average life expectancy of prospectors is 30 years old! Day earnings - $ 5 ... However, on Java, the profession is considered an elite.

As a souvenir, tourists are offered local crafts from sulfur. They can be purchased directly on top.

Excursions to Izden

The rise takes about 2 hours at night and 1 hour during the day. The length of the path is 3 km.

To see the legendary blue lava, you need to go out at night - at 1:00.

It is good to start climbing early in the morning to meet the dawn on top. In Indonesia, it is customary to visit most of the attractions in the Dawn Time: And the weather is better, and not hot, and species are beautiful.

Landscapes here are absolutely cosmic at any time of the day. Photo from Igens will be simply amazing - the lifeless stone slopes of the volcano, huge couples breaking out of the middle of the earth, combined with the sky-blue lake at the Crater Day. From the top there are picturesque panoramas on the whole complex.

What to take and how to dress

Be sure to capture a couple of liters of drinking water. The thirst will make himself felt, and sources if they are, then it is impossible to drink from them.

Take care of a closed shoe with a good sole. On the trail a lot of small stones and sand. Do not forget about the jacket, because the top is pretty cool and windy. On the night climb take the naked lanterns.

Whether on the iwan eruption

Generally he is in the attenuation period. He erupts, but without a magma, which was last seen here in the distant 1817 (far from Indonesia, of course :). It is characterized by the freak (or gas) activity, which we talked above. Earthquakes are frequent, but on the scale of seismicactivity - within 1 point.

Visiting these seats is allowed when complying with the safety rules and the presence of a guide. The use of a respirator or a special mask to protect against harmful sulfur gas is necessarily. A handkerchief is useful, the BAU or something, which can be covered with the respiratory tract and eyes.

How to get to ijen

N. and Java has an international airport in Surabai.B. the ranks for the volcano settlements are villages in Paluding (Pos-Paltuding.) and calisate ( Kalisat.), and from the large X - the city of Banwev Ang and (Banyuwangi ). You can reach Banuvanha from Surabai by train, and on the route to paluding (2 hours).

If you arrive in Jakarta (Jakarta), from there you can fly to the town of Jember (Jember) on Java, where there is also an airport. Jember is located close to the Polyuding, and the domestic flight costs about $ 50.

Getting to Ident with Bali is very easy. In the same BanuvanGi there is a big crossing Kepatang (Kepatang) where ferries regularly run. On Yava You can rent a car, coming over an hour and a half to the destination from the ferry station.

Note that local guide services are about $ 190.

In the photo - Introduced with a ferry on Bali

The path to the goal will give you a lot of pleasure - the serpentine road in the jungle, coffee plantations, colorful small villages, the green slopes of the hills and towering firewood peaks of Indonesia ...

We recommend after Kavaj Ijene to visit Bromo - the path will take about 5 hours by car. Bromo-tenge seder park is especially good in the early morning;) We always enjoy the dawn over bromo in our trekking in Indonesia.

In early November, we finally managed to get out of Bali. Not that we had some difficulties with the departure, I just didn't want to leave at all, so for myself we decided that this was one of those places where I would like to come back.

We went to travel in Java, the island, for the residents of which the phrase "live as on the volcano" has no abstract, but a completely concrete value - 120 volcanoes are located here, 30 of which existing ones.
In addition, Java is the most dense island in the world, more than 120 million people live on it.

Over the past 2 weeks, we visited the indescribable beauty of the Volcano Ijen (IJEN)

with turquoise lake inside




found out how to get sulfur local residents and what funny money they earn an unbearable difficulty, every day the coffin sulking


An unusually beautiful Madakaripur waterfall, 200 meters high, visited.

located in mountain caves and is a whole cascade of 7 waterfalls


Met dawn in the Bromo Tenger Semeru National Park,

where from the viewing sites, the most famous panorama in the world opens with its cosmic landscape


view of the valley of volcanoes: Press-man-handsome Battle, Puffing Volcano Bromo and Pullen Seed,


which after 8 am disappears in the haze


and also rose and looked inside the volcano Bromo




the path to which lay through the canyon (reminding us glorious)


In this valley, in which the spirit of incredible beauty, freedom and peace captures the Spirit, we spent almost a day, photographing and watching the activity of volcanoes


On how independently, fiscal to the valley, with what sight points are the most stunning species, as well as how to make a route to avoid crowds of tourists, we will definitely write a separate article.

We visited Jodzhakrat - the cultural capital of the island, which is often compared with the Balinese Balus, possibly due to the presence of rice fields in the vicinity, which we, as in Ubud, were investigated on a scooter


We are also JOGJA (so the local one is shortened) more reminded Indian, although the city itself (and the whole island) of India is cleaner. Here are full of lazy velaiks, which are used for sleep in the workplace for any minute (practically as)


but they are less annoying than Indian colleagues, and besides more neat and dressed are decent, not in rags, and the design of the cart is different


The presence of beefs (equestrian carts used as a taxi) reminded us by the Mexican town.

We expected a more pleasant and calm atmosphere from Joggy, but it is rather appreciated by the presence of historical monuments - both in the city (Sultan Palace and the Water Palace) and in the vicinity - one of the largest and oldest Borobudur Borobudur Buddhist Complex (Borobudur)


which after 8 am were filled tourists and schoolchildren


and Hindu temple complex Prambanan (Prambanan)


We are not great lovers of ancient ruins and excavations, but these temples visited to feel the atmosphere. Our verdict is an amateur. Also in the vicinity of Jodzhakarta, we visited the footing of the largest in Indonesia of the acting Merapy, which turned out to be very capricious and did not seem to us from the haze.

Also visited the plantations of Dragon-Fruit, edible cactus fetus, about which we told in the article ""




From hot, but small Jodzhakarts we left for the third largest city of Java - a large, but less soul bandung. Here we visited another volcano Tangkuban Perahu


as well as toolate fresh and incredibly sweet berries, which grow on the slopes of the mountains and which we lacked so much in Asia

After Bandung, we reached the suburbs of Jakarta - the city of Bogor, in which the metropolitan residents are saved about the heat. Compared the local botanical garden with


and went to the beautiful Waterfall of Nangka (Nangka)

As a final stroke, we rolled on the public transport of Timy-Million Jakarta, stood in the evening traffic jams and walked along the Independence Square, and also spent several hours in Taman Mini Park (Taman Mini Indonesia Indah), in which fragments of architecture and culture from all regions of Indonesia are collected (In the photo of the island of Sulawesi in miniature), which are comfortable to view from the cable car

Here we also met the Komot Dragon - the largest lizard in the world

General Impressions from Java

Before traveling to Java, we were read and listened to terrible stories about what a terrible and dangerous place - evil Muslims steal and deceive, public transport strokes, very slow, and constantly crowded, so it falls on the heads of each other, taxi drivers and travel agents Incredibly annoying and attachment, and the island is very beggar and dirty.

Thanks to these reviews, we even reduced our trip from one month, as planned initially, up to two weeks (about what, afterwards, regards).

According to the results of two weeks spent on Java, we can say that either we are very lucky, or we were on some other Java 🙂

Of course, garbage and dirt are found here in some places, public transport is very far from perfect.


and sometimes people come across (especially in the tourist business), trying to deceive or sell something more expensive to white tourists. But if you compare Java and, here it is much cleaner here, people dress decent, and the Indonesian taxi drivers appear on the background of God's dandelions \u003d)


In general, people on Java are very friendly


and friendly


to the Europeans, as a rule, are related without subordinate, but with respect, they are glad to help and suggest, but at the same time they are less obsessive. And although sometimes shouting "Hallow Mr." and the requests to take pictures began to tire, negative emotions in us they still did not cause


On Java, especially in the eastern part of it, smoke very much - we have not seen so much smoking people anywhere


And smoke everywhere, not paying attention to those who are near, be something even a child, at least a pregnant woman. It is worse to be in the company of smokers in public transport, where it is impossible to hide from tobacco smog, especially in the bus. In public transport in Indonesia, it is not forbidden to smoke, and the passengers are used, lining to go outside for a break, even at a long stop.

Local food here is a more diverse cham on Bali, although Indian and Malaysian cuisine, we still like more \u003d)



Lovely Mirebaki


Fruit prices, on average, the same as on Bali, with the exception of mango, which is sold in huge quantities, 5, 4 and even 3 thousand rupees per kilogram


Omnipresent Durians


In this trip, everywhere, with the exception of the mountain village, sample, among tea and coffee plantations at the foot of Ijene,


we lived in Kauratsurofers


traveled together, talked a lot and even visited the modest Javanese wedding


so in the near future we will tell you how simple javans live, about their level of life and prosperity, about what they cares and what they dream about


And finally - a rabbutan tree in Bogora, the fruits of which we enjoyed a few days \u003d)

The organization of the tour on the IMEND from MyBalitrips was at the highest professional level. Very well thought out: a new comfortable air-conditioned bus drove up to McDonalds to 16.30, gathered a group (as long as 7 more people were tightened, we drank coffee with Tiramisu and got acquainted), at 17.30 everything was in full force, the driver in English explained the route and timing ( By the way, the drivers were two and they replaced each other in a long road back and forth), along the way to the ferry to Java in the west of Bali we had dinner in a pleasant cafe with a striking group of low prices and delicious foods (the usual European taste receptors combinations and soft sofas for Recreation, sounded offers "All! We move to this part of the island, here beauty and chip price tag for normal food!"). Total road to foot Idezhen: 4.5 hours per car + 1 hour lunch + 1 hour steam. On the way, stayed a couple of times (visits to the restroom, buying water-chocolate, refueling), kneaded and communicated. The parking lot was one and a half an hour before the discovery (the difference in time is 1 hour), it was time to change clothes in warm clothes, morally and physically prepared for the rise and descent to the crater. Tip: comfortable shoes, warm hat or hood, waterproof top and socks - Must Have. It is better to remove and change it in the afternoon and change it to clean and dry than to frozen and get into. In the mountains at night cool and wet, you need to go in the dark hour and a half only to the crater. The road is surprisingly smooth, it may seem that asphalty, but the descent to the crater itself and the rise back is the test for strength. My sneakers did not survive him. There are "Rickshaw" -tqi to the crater (about $ 70), but it is for small and elderly, as it seems to me. Introduced with his blue lights, churring smoke clubs, the largest acid mountain lake in the world and a picturesque view - great. It is clear about to see with your own eyes, to protrude your legs to say "We did it!". Masks issued by drivers, save from suffocation directly near the Sulfur Sulfur Sulfur, but the eyes are defenseless, so the blue lights are also a quest! Then the dawn of darkness dissipates, the unearthly beauty of the stones, the lake, the sky appear. Local workers wear 90-120 kg of sulfur in view of fragile shoulders. These are incredibly strong little people! After the photoset, we climb on the still wet from the predestal fog of the stones upstairs to descend on the serpentine of the road, to finally ripen with rich mountain air and admire the majestic landscapes. To the foot, we descend the winners exhausted, with a lonely active volcano of the island of Java, descended from the beauty and relics. The guide on the volcano we caught a real optimist and the goodness. The whole road was encouraged, sang in English, showed miracles of patience and tact, humor and interest in learning the Russian language, was recognized as a group of an ideal photographer on any phone, they were back drown, impressed and sleepy. On Java was breakfast in the restaurant. Rain went and we were glad to build in the car. To the destination burned to 15.30. It is much faster than declared in the information on the site. I think we were lucky with the lack of traffic jams, the weather and in general in life, an excellent experience, compare nothing with what! If you have eyes, ears, soul and understanding the values \u200b\u200bof such moments, then you can open with the brightest side as us. Thanks again to the organizers and everyone who contributed to our adventure!

Kava's volcano Izen is located in Eastern Java and is part of the IMENS complex, consisting of more than 10 volcanic objects, located within a radius of 20 km around the caldera, 1 km wide and a depth of 200 meters. It found a sulfur lake Kava Izden, famous for turquoise tint of water and deposits of natural sulfur.

Kava's volcano is ideived (its height is about 2400 m above sea level; the diameter of the crater - 175 m) is active, since "smoke" he is constantly, speaking sulfur clubs. From afar, it is little similar to the real volcano - rice fields and coffee plantations are drawn around it, the slopes and fields can be seen on the slopes. But as it seems that there are plants on the mountain, burned with poisonous pairs of the volcano, and closer to the crater landscapes and become deserted. In the case of Kava's eruption, the acid lake flows out of the crater and burns everything alive in its path.

Since sulfur comes to the surface of the lake (first it is a molten red liquid that flows from cracks in the mountain and pipes, "inserted" in the zhero volcano, and later it cools and becomes yellow), Indonesian working round days are engaged in its prey to handle ( In the crater there is a mine where it is mined is minerals). Collective sulfur, they overcome the path from the bottom of the crater to the foot of the volcano, to the weighing station (here the workers are satisfied with the smokers, and tourists can purchase for $ 1 figures from sulfur, which make the hotels themselves, using the molds, in particular, in the form of animals), transfer About 70-90 kg in heavy baskets. Earnings of workers small, given that they make 2-3 "walkers" per day (approximately $ 13 per day) and work in difficult conditions dangerous to health (they do not have protective clothing and the necessary equipment, with the exception of shovel and scrap) . Because of the "harmful" work, workers live on average up to 30 years.

It is worth noting that the sulfur produced here is the cleanest and most expensive sulfur in, in connection with which it is used in the food and chemical industry, for example, for whitening sugar or volcanization of rubber.

Kava island for tourists

Climbing at Kava Idren will take about 1.5 hours from travelers (it will not require serious physical training). Those who get to the top will be able to admire the picturesque neighborhoods of Java Island.

Tourists are advised to visit Kava in the dark day when they manage to become a witness to a beautiful extravaganza of fire and molten sulfur (liquid sulfur that follows from the lake, starts to "glow" with a neon flame and reaches 5 m in height).

In addition, interest is the lake located in the crater of the volcano - there is several paths to it (in other places the walls are circular downward). This is a lake (temperature on the surface - about 60˚C, and on a 200-meter depth - three times hot), painted in emerald color, filled with sulfur and hydrochloric acid (the mixture contains 5 grams of dissolved aluminum per liter). First, tourists are waiting for the path to the top of the volcano, and then the descent of the crater (from the foot, more precisely parking, to the vertex - about 3.5 km, the height difference is 500 m), which will take about half an hour. Since there is no way inside the crater, it cannot be descended without conductor there (there will always be local guys, ready to assist in the descent).

For climbing and observation, you will need:

• respirator with filters (sulfur evaporation of poisonous);
• comfortable shoes and clothing (a steep path leads to the top);
• photo and video equipment;
• water (replenish stocks, that is, buy water, will be able only to the store, which is in the scales).

As for the entrance fee, it is 15,000 rupees.

How to get to the volcano kava izden

C will be able to get to Java on the ferry, after which the tourists will wait for the journey on a tourist minibus to the foot of the volcano. Climbing makes sense to plan at night: In the morning, the weather is usually good, and in the second one - it is often spoiled (for this time there is a bad visibility - dense clouds appear above the crater), so when the volcano in the morning, tourists have a chance to see what they are They arrived here. In connection with the night ascent, the day is recommended to stop near the volcano (good options - "Catimor Homestay" or "Arabica Homestay").

If desired, the excursion to Kava Izden can be ordered in any travel agency for Bali, but if you directly go to the Ijen Resort & Villas hotel (has a swimming pool, the SPA center, a restaurant overlooking the rice fields and volcanoes), then its employees will assume the organization of lifting on Kava Vulcan island (it will cost cheaper).

- The acting volcano on the island of Java in Indonesia. But you will not find the lava in the center of the volcano: instead of her, the largest acid lake in the world is in the crater. Despite the fact that the volcano is constantly erupting the sulfur pair, the turquoise lake is filled with a mixture of sulfur and hydrochloric acids, and the miner's work on this site is considered the most dangerous work in the world, Intrivated daily attracts countless tourists. Climbing at the volcano begins late at night so that the tourists manage to see the blue flame, simply speaking, the pairs of sulfur, which when oxidation glows in the dark. We tell how to conquer this place.

When to go

On Incen, you can rise at any time of the year, the exceptions make up bad natural conditions or eruption of neighboring volcanoes. Inthen is also an active volcano, but the last time he was erupted over 15 years ago. The volcanoologists are observed daily for the indicators of the volcano activity, therefore, in the case of any seismic deviations, access to it is closed.

Budget

Expenditures depend on your choice in favor of an independent organization of the tour or guide services. To get to the base camp of the volcano, it is necessary to take into account a lot of nuances to take into account, and it is forbidden to rise to Intruded without a guide anyway. If you find a local guide - you will receive a tour only for you and your friends at a lower price than international travel agencies. On average, the entire package, including transport, food and climbing costs about $ 110, in the case of local guides - about $ 80. If you decide to plan the whole round yourself, do not forget to take warm clothes, flashlight and gas mask. If the climb will be organized by the guide, it will prepare everything you need. Find local guides is easy: there are many groups for foreigners living on Bali, as well as local residents in Facebook. Try to write a post in the Ubud Community group.

Route and climbing ideas

Most of the travelers begin the path to Bali. About six evenings, the car usually takes people from Ubud or other spots in the south of Bali and takes to the western part of the island - the port of Gilimanuk. The road takes about six hours depending on the remoteness of the initial item from the west of Bali. At about midnight, you will arrive at the port, from where ferries regularly go to the eastern shore of Java - Banyuwangi. Go from the west of Bali to East Java will not take more than 30 minutes. The main camp at the foot of the Volcano Wedge is 20 kilometers from the port. Local, everything has long been captured and well organized: Jeep will already be waiting for you on Java, dinner in a local restaurant before departing to the camp, dry lads before climbing and breakfast after it. Also for you should cook lanterns and gas masks that will come in handy when you are approaching the crater itself.

At night, the climb begins. At night, the temperature is very much lowered, especially when you rising to the top. Depending on your sports training, climbing can take from 1.5 to 2.5 hours. Rising to the crater is Izhen before dawn, you can see the blue flame to which you can go down the rapter of the volcano, thereby going as close as possible. By this moment, everything must be put on gas masks, otherwise it will be impossible to breathe. Miners who started work long before sunrise, at this time are already carrying on the shoulders of 80 kilograms of sulfur sediments - and without any protective mask. Do not forget to take warm clothes with you. You're already raise to the top before sunrise, and seeing a blue flame, you will wait for dawn. It will be cold!

From the height of 2883 meters, an incredible view of the acid lake in the crater, the pH of which is lower than 0, 3 on a scale from 0 to 14 - for comparison, the pH of the lemon juice is 2.