Shared Trip : Ijen Sunrise from Banyuwangi / join group sharing tour Leave at 11.45pm pick up from your hotel in Banyuwangi Area

Highlights

Shared Trip : Ijen Sunrise from Banyuwangi  / join group sharing tour Leave at 11.45pm

• Ijen Sunrise from Banyuwangi Shared Trip is included entrance tickets
• The trip with pick up at hotel in Banyuwangi Area
• ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH MOUNT IJEN IS CLOSED FOR ALL HIKING ACTIVITIES
• FOR 1 PERSON TRAVELER PLEASE CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
• THIS TRIP MUST BE PAID IN FULL ( CAN NOT DEPOSIT & NON REFUNDABLE )

Itinerary

INCLUDED	Shared air-conditioned car include Fuel for tours National Park entrance fee Health certificates Gas mask Admission fee and parking Shared hiking guide
NOT INCLUDED	Meals Tipping

Description

Shared Trip : Ijen Sunrise from Banyuwangi  / join group sharing tour Leave at 11.45pm

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in the Banyuwangi Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name “Merapi” means “mountain of fire” in the Indonesian language; Mount Merapi in central Java and Marapi in Sumatra have the same etymology.

West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden  baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is paid  well considering the cost of living in the area, but is very  onerous. Workers earn around Rp 90,000 – 130,000 ($8-$10) per day and  once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks  about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding Valley to get paid.

Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones run east-west across the southern side of the caldera. The active  crater at Kawah Ijen has a diameter of 722 metres (2,369 ft) and a surface area of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).

The lake is recognised as the largest highly acidic crater lake in the world. It is also a source for the river Banyupahit, resulting in highly acidic and metal-enriched river water which has a significant detrimental effect on the downstream river ecosystem. In 2008, explorer  George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.