BROMO KAWAH IJEN AND EAST JAVA
East Java means vulcanos , and other related nature and adventure lovers. This east part of the island also offers you the National Park , such as Baluran with its Javanese Bull collection,SUKAMADE with its turtle conservation,SEMPU island with its wonderful sandy beach,and of course the Bromo Tengger National park for mounts climbing purpose.
Beside all those attractions, the new destination of I J E N is almost a must to visit.
Sulphur mine workers , carrying up to 95 kgs sulphurs,colourful crater lake ,and rich plantations of coffee and cacao can also be found in this beautiful area of Ijen , just 45 minutes drive from the Ferry Harbour of Ketapang.
BROMO
Splendour Mount BromoThe most spectacular and accessible park in the
Indonesia archipelago, it lies between 78 54' - 8*13' South latitude
and 112*51' - 113804' East Longitude on the globe. The area covers
58.000 hectares of administration of the Directorate General of Forest
and Nature Conservation. There are 4 main reserves, namely: (a) the
Laut Pasir Reserve (6.290 ha ) : the sea of sand- declared in 19919
as a protection of 10km wide soft bed of the Caldera (96 ha). (b)
The ranu Pane - Ranu Regulo l 14 km away from he active Bromo on the
southern of the Caldera (c) Ranu Kumbolo Reserve (1,340 ha) The Kumbolo
lake is surrounded by a ring of the hill ops and scattered conifers.
Both (b) and (c) were established in 1921. (d) the Ranu Darungan Reserve
(380ha). was only recently included in October 1982. The whole region
stretches 40 km from the north from the to the south and 30 km from
East of West.
SEMERU
The highest peak is the 3.676 meter Gunung Semeru followed by Gunung
Kepolo (3.035), Gunung Arcopodo (3.150m), Gunung Jambangan (.020 m)Gunung
Bajangan (2.800 m), Gunung Ayek-ayek (2.819 m), Gunung Kumbolo (2.390
m), Gunung Lanang (2.313 m ), Gunung Iderider (2.527 m ), Gunung Widodaren
(2.614 M ), Gunung Bromo (2.392M),Gunung Mungal (2.480 m), Gunung
Batok (2.440m), ending at panoramic platform of Gunung Pananjakan
(2.770 m ) which is about 14 km from the village of Wonokitri which
is less than 2 km from the town Tosari.
KAWAH IJEN
Kawah Ijen Great beautiful scenery of green sulfur lake, at 2000 m
above sea level, where the story about humanity begin everyday in
the morning. We can see the poor porters running down the mountain
with 90 kg sulfur. Walking through the passage of the sulfur porter
The ijen plateau his is the centre of the Ijen - Merapi. Malang Reserve.
The Principal attraction at ijen is the large, Superheroes crater
lake which lies hidden between sheer walls of deeply furrowed rock
at more than 200 meters. The ijen crater itself lies at approximately
2.300 meters above sen level. It form a twin volcano with the now
extinct mount Merapi. The enormous crater lake. which is 200 meters
deep and covers an area of more than halt a million square meters.
Contains about 36 million cubic meters of streaming. Acid water ijen
crater shows a special type of vacancies feature common to Indonesia,
About 1 kilo meters in diameter and 175 metres deep
BALURAN
Reserve national where we find the habitat of last Javanese bulls
and the others exotic animals. Blaluran is wild game preserve and
occupies about 25.000 hectares of open savannah, and hill country
to the north of banyuwangi. the park is a haven for a great variety
of native animals and bird species including deers, wild pigs, buffalos
leopards, peacocks, monkeys, and the banteng - the Javanese wild ox.
you can abserves the animals in their native habitat from a specially
constructed tower.