2 days/ 1 night short round trip to east Java / from and to Bali.
Day 1. On the tracks of the sulfur miners
Pick up at your hotel at 5:00am, to proceed through west Bali to Gillimanuk, the ferry harbor.
 | En route a stop at the coast line for a picnic breakfast with hot coffee or tea. Ask to prepare your hotel breakfast to take away/ breakfast box. Transfer hotel to Gilimanuk about 3 hrs. Cross over by car ferry to Java island takes about 60 min. Cross the dense jungle of Mt. Ijen Alas Purwo National Park until the Ranger Station on an altitude of app. 1800m., the starting point of your 2 hrs hike up to the crater of Mt. Ijen 2400m.
The trail you hike up is used by mine workers, carrying heavy loads of pure sulfur rocks in bamboo baskets. Some are carrying up to 120 kg load. Please step beside to give free the way. To do picturesque photos from and with them, prepare to give away some present. Don’t give cigarettes which mostly they ask for. Vitamin contented sweets, biscuits, bottled mineral water, healthy drinks or fruits are better. Please don’t give any money. Mount Ijen, a strata-type volcano, characterized by its 960m x 600m turquoise colored crater lake. Enjoy breath taking views from the volcano world below you. |
The traditional sulfur mine is located deep down in the crater, where sulfur miners have transported these volcano gold manually on foot, since colonial times, yielding up to 10 tons per day. The descent takes nearly half the time. Back at the starting point, BBQ picnic lunch at the ranger station. 60 min. transfer downwards to Ketapang Indah, a nice beach front hotel with a refreshing pool. Javanese Massage available for app. only 10.00 US$. (B,L)
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Day 2. Bike through Bali's rural country side
After breakfast at 7:30am, cross over by car ferry back to Bali. Drive along the dry north coast, up to Bali’s cooler lake region, passing the twin lakes Tamblingan and Buyan, which where still one until the year of 1818. Enjoy lunch at Bratan lake. After lunch take a 30minutes short cut and cross the cloud forest on the slope of Beduguls mountains. Out of the forest, prepare your self for a wonderful 2 hours biking. In pleasant and fresh mountain air, enjoy this island discovery on modern mountain bikes. Two hours slightly downhill ride through traditional villages, along beautiful terraced rice fields. We ride slowly to experience skin deep the rural live of this country side. Our bike scout will ride in front and nobody please should passing him. Stops are made at your wish, for explanations and to answer your questions. Back at the transfer car, enjoy hot coffee, tea, cappuccino or chilled soft drinks after a cold and refreshing face towel. Transfer to your hotel in south Bali. Arrival, app. at 5:00pm. (B, L) |
| Tour departures on arrangement |
| Include | : | English speaking tour leader + overnight, meals and activities as specified + return car ferry ticket + all entrance fees + rental of mountain bikes. | | Mt. Ijen hike | : | Participants who don’t join the hike, may stay below with the drivers. Reading and enjoy the nice ranger station or help to prepare the BBQ picnic lunch. | | Biking | : | The transport car will follow the bikers in a distance of 10 min. Participants are able to decide, when ever to stop and join back the transfer car. Participants who don’t bike, may experience the bike route from the car. | | What to wear | : | Long sleeves, shorts, t-shirt, trekking sandals, hat. | | What to bring | : | Extra clothes to change, sun lotion, money in local currency for pay your dinner, drinks and crew tipping, team spirit. | |
