Posts Tagged ‘ijen plateau’

Mt Bromo – Kawah Ijen – Kalibaru Plantation Tour – Surabaya orBali Tour 4D/3N

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Mt. Bromo  Tour – Ijen Crater Tour – Kalibaru Plantation Tour . Duration trip is 4 days 3 night is start from Surabaya than drive to mt. Bromo, Kawah Ijen and Kalibaru Plantation tour. Kalibaru Plantation is, a small hill country village located in Banyuwangi District, approximately 220 km from Denpasar Airport in Bali. If you departed from Denpasar, Kalibaru is conveniently reached by road, a trip that takes approximately 6 hours and includes the fascinating 35 minutes car – ferry trip across the Bali’s Strait from the “island of the Gods” to the eastern trip of Java.

Detail  Bromo Ijen Kalibaru Tour  Package is as follows:
Day 01. Surabaya – Bromo Tour
Pick you up on your arrival at Surabaya airport and transfer to your hotel in Bromo and fell the atmosphere of local village,check in hotel,free program.
Day 02. Bromo Sunrise Tour – Bromo Tour
Early in the morning at 03.30 am, we will start our tour to Mt Pananjakan (the view point of Bromo). From here we will see the spectacular process of sunrise, also the beautiful combination of Mt bromo, Mt batok and Mt Semeru. After we see the process of sunrise we continue our trip to the nearest point from the crater of Bromo (+ 2,5 km), after we finished all the program in the area of Bromo we will back to our accommodation to get breakfast and then transfer to Ijen Plateau via beautiful landscape of eastern Java.Stay overnight at Arabica or Catimor Hotel or Ketapang Indah or Ijen Resort. Dinner, Free program
Day 03 :Kawah Ijen Tours – Kalibaru Plantation tour
After breakfast, drive a short time to Paltuding (trekking point), and start track to the top Ijen plateau normally it takes 1, 5 hour. As long the way up, we can see the activities of sulfur miners when they are carrying sulfur from the bottom of crater and bring it down to the slope of Ijen Volcano. After we explore the beautiful of Ijen we will transfer to Kalibaru via Licin area, passing clove plantation.Distance from Ijen area to Kalibaru Plantation is in 2 to 3 hours and having lunch in local restaurant during this trip, Check in Kalibaru VillageHotel,free program.
Day 03 : Kalibaru Plantation tour   -  drop off Bali
After breakfast, we continue our tour to Kalibaru Plantation (see processing of coffee, rubber, chocolate). It was a very large Netherlands plantation, located in the eastern part of Java. From kalibaru plantation we drive to Alaspurwo national park and pass traditional village. Check out hotel, around at 11.00 am,Leave hotel to Ketapang Harbour, or back to Surabaya Airport .

For details information about Bromo Tour – Kawah Ijen Tour – Kalibaru  Tour Package please contact us.

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Closed

About Kawah Ijen (Ijen Crater)

Friday, October 21st, 2011

ijen crater tour packageIjen Crater (Kawah Ijen) is as crater of Mt Ijen which Mt Ijen is one of the active volcanoes, located between Bondowoso (Klobang Subdistrict) and Banyuwangi (Licin Subdistrict), part of Alas Purwo National Park, one of national conservation area in East Java.

The short description about Kawah Ijen :

Elevation   =   2,386 m (edge) and 2,145 m (lake) from sea level.
Type              =  Stratovolcano.
Coordinat  =  8°03,5′ S dan 114°14,5′ E
Eruption    =  1817 ; 1917 ; 1936 ; 1950 ; 1952 ; 1993 ; 1994 ; 1999.

*Kawah Ijen Route and Map please click here.

This crater, surely will offer us a lot of matter. The crater with large around 5,466 hectares has volcano crater eksotism, beautiful and charming nature. The quiet lake that has tosca colour of water is look like an elegance to everyone who saw it. The best time to enjoy the crater scenery is at morning, when the yellow sunlight glows the yellow water with their volume almost 200 million cubic and temperature around 200 Celcius degree, and shines also the surrounding mountain like mount Merapi.
Kawah ijen/Ijen crater is the acid lake, one of biggest lake acid in the world. It has zero degree of acid, and the acid is enough to dissolve clothes and your finger on water. This crater is famous, not only for local tourist, but all the world.

Kawah Ijen lake is covered by crater’s wall stone which the kind of stone material’s is built by “Solfatra” and “Lapili”. This stone materials was created by volcano eruption, making sediment with black colour, real black. You can walk up here with your family, specialy for mountain adventure lovers who always looking for a new adventure objects. It has supported by local government with any representative facilities such as road , camping ground, hotel or lodging house that provided in near by Kawah Ijen/ijen crater

After you arrive at around of Ijen area, tourist generally choose hotel for their overnight at Jampit or Blawan village. They both are nice area, quiet, fresh and around by coffee plantation, specialy your trip to reach the hotel. You can choose at Arabica and Catimor homestay (hostel), or if you prefer to stay with higher quality and service, please visit and overnight at Ijen Resort or Ketapang Indah Hotel. As your information, the Arabica and Catimor homestay (hostel), coffee plantation, coffee factory, strawberry plantation, it’s all managed by Plantation Department of local government. Please enjoy at hotel and in next morning, you will start to walk up to Ijen Crater

All of vehicle must stop at “Paltuding”, the last post before we walk up to Ijen Crater, take entrance fee and start to reach the Ijen Crater. The trip is 2 hours, up and easy road. 2 hours is similar with 33 small post on the edge of street and each small post has distance more and last 100 metres. So, you walk up to Ijen crater from Paltuding 3,3 km, good for your health.

As long as your time walking up to Ijen Crater from the start point, around after 30 minutes you walk up, in your right and left side, you can see another beautiful objects, they are “Savanah” and “Stepa forest” in the faraway, with wild grass that height around 1 meter. Large of this “Savanah” and “Stepa forest” are around 10,000 hectares and lied between mountain groups that has the high up to peak in 2000 meters. The mountain groups is lied from Banyuwangi to Bondowoso and in green scenery

Mt.Ijen is not the only one between Banyuwangi and Bondowoso, but the mountain group, such as Mt Kendeng, Mt Ringgih, Mt Merapi, Mt Ijen, Mt Papak, Mt Widodaren, Mt Pawenan, Mt Rante, Mt Jampit, Mt Raung, Mt Suket, Mt Kukusan, Mt Deleman, Mt Pendil, Mt Kenteng, Mt Panduan, Mt Anyar, Mt Gunung Lingker, This mountain groups will challenge us to also, climbing to the mountain group anywhere

The right month for us to climbing, recommend to do this around July – October although everyday we keep to handle visitors. Because, in July to October, we will find the edelweiss flower (everlasting flower), flower as mascot with easier during our climbing, at the slope of Mt Ijen and the mountain group, look like white colour in the faraway.

We Provide many kind package tour about Kawah Ijen (Ijen crater), such as:

-  Surabaya Ijen Tour

-  Bali  Ijen Tour

-  Mount Bromo Tour – Kawah Ijen Tour

-  Yogyakarta – Bromo – Ijen – Bali Tour

If  you  need further information about Kawah Ijen/Ijen Crater Tour, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Closed