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September 2009 trip with Mat, Sam, Sal, Jac & Cat to the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park at Cemoro Lawang and Ngadisari East Java, overlooking Mt Bromo, Mt Batok and Mt Semeru in the distance, for the Yadnya Kasada annual Tenggerese festival celebrating the volcano gods of Mt Bromo. Preceded by a short visit to Sidoarjo to view the "mud flood" phenomena, still active to this day. Driving from Surabaya through Probolinggo and return.
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Entrance to the "Mud Flood" area in Sidoarjo; (now contained by a massive earthen dike).
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Entrance to the "Mud Flood" area in Sidoarjo; (now contained by a massive earthen dike).

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  • Entrance to the "Mud Flood" area in Sidoarjo; (now contained by a massive earthen dike).
  • The "Mud Flood" area in Sidoarjo; accidental eruption while drilling for natural gas resulted in a large area of the city being covered in boiling hot mud.
  • The "Mud Flood" area in Sidoarjo; where the remnants of buildings buried by the muddy water can still be seen.
  • The Lava Vew Lodge on the crater rim of the Tenggerese caldera, overlooking Mt Bromo.
  • Mt Batok at dusk, as seen from the ridge at the Lava View Lodge. Vehicle headlights can be seen traverseiing the "Sand Sea" below.
  • Flip attempts a freestyle jump from the ridge at the Lava View Lodge.
  • Harmawan managing our finances, (some of our money was TOO old!), at the dinner table in the Lava View Lodge.
  • Festive decorations line the streets in the defacto capital of the Tenggerese in Ngadisari.
  • Free spirited decorations celebrate the coming of Yadnya Kasada.
  • Green onions growing feverishly like "pod people' in the bright full moonlight on the eve of Yadnya Kasada.
  • The full moon on the eve of the Tenggerese fetival of Yadnya Kasada.
  • Yadnya Kasada decorations elcipse the moon.
  • A view to Mt Semeru (Java's highest peak), in the distance with Mt Batok in the foreground, just before sunrise.
  • The lights of Cemoro Lawamg amd the Lava View Lodge on the ridge of the Tenggerese caldera, far below our sunrise viewing point.
  • Swiftly approaching sunrise with the curiously dessicated trees of the hillside in the foreground; (has there been recent volcanic activity to cause this lack of foliage?)
  • Sunise arrives at the three peaks of Batok, Bromo and Semeru.
  • Harmawan gives Flip the thumbs up after our successful sunrise encounter!
  • Jac, Flip, Sal, Sam, Mat at the sunrise viewing point.
  • Approaching the "Safe Fence" however, was perfectly acceptable!
  • Our jeep driver for our journeys accros the great "Sand Sea" and up and down the mountain to the viewing point.
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