Ijen Crater East Java

Category: mountain, craters, lakes
Location: Bondowoso, East Java.

Ijen Crater is the largest acid lake on earth at the top of Mount Ijen, has a height of 2368 meters above sea level with a depth of 200 meters and the area of the lake crater reached 5466 hectares.

Crater in the territory of Nature Reserve Nature Trail Ijen Bondowoso, East Java. To reach Ijen, there are two main routes, ie from the direction Bondowoso-Wonosari and Banyuwangi-Licin. Ijen crater when viewed from the top of Mount Ijen looks very beautiful. In this crater, we can also see the activities of sulfur miners. They mine the sulfur with minimal protection, with only close the mouth using a wet cloth and of course this is very dangerous for their health.

The miners use a crowbar as a tool to take sulfur. Then the miners would walk several miles carrying sulfur into the weighing station. They brought the sulfur weighing 45 to 90kg, and a miner can do two or three times a day trip. In one day the miners could only carry around Rp. 50,000 (approximately $5.00).

TANGKUBAN PERAHU MOUNTAIN

West Java Province hit a aggregation of tourism object. One of them is Mountain Tangkuban Perahu.  The positioning of Mt. Tangkuban Perahu is in Desa Cikole, Kecamatan Lembang, Kabupaten Bandung.  It’s most 30 kilometer north side of Bandung.  The Mountain Tangkuban Perahu is 1,860 meter above sea level. It’s become one of the bonny image and a aggregation of tourist hit been came to see her beauty.

If you see from a distance, this elevation is kindred with a reverse boat and its adjoining with a legend story Sangkuriang.  At that story this elevation was created from a boat which is kicked by Sangkuriang and fall reversed.  The story was began when Sangkuriang is falling in love with Dayang Sumbi and ask her to marry him.  He doesn’t know that Dayang Sumbi is his own mother who never get old.  Dayang Sumbi try to refuse him by giving him requirement, to attain a boat on one night and must be done before sunrise. She’s getting worry when the boat is almost finish, she is beetling the “lesung” (one of traditional equipment for beetle the paddy), so that attain the cock up and  cackle wake up from their sleep because they think that the sun module raise soon.  Sangkuriang is very upset, he kick the unfinish boat up ordered down and finally it’s become a elevation titled Tangkuban Perahu.