Mt. Ijen

One of the mountains in East Java that is not less interesting is Mount Ijen. Mount Ijen has a height of about 2,386 meters above sea level. This mountain is located on the border between Banyuwangi and Bondowoso which borders Mount Merapi. to climb to the Ijen crater you must go to Paltuding (Post into Mount Ijen). climbing from the post to the crater takes about 3 km. Mount Ijen has a crater lake with a depth of about 200 meters and a crater area of ​​around 5400 hectares. Ijen Crater Lake is one of the most acidic lakes in the world. besides that there is a natural phenomenon of blue fire. The phenomenon of blue fire is only 2 in the world. besides Ijen, blue fire is also found in Iceland. blue fire can be seen with your eyes directly when there is no light

in addition to the natural beauty that is interesting, there are other things that also attract attention are sulfur miners. you can see miners who are busy carrying sulfur piles on their backs, down steep roads filled with dangerous poison gas. they go down to the crater with makeshift equipment to take sulfur. sulfur – sulfur is borne and brought to the sulfur weighing post. sulfur loads carried up to 80-100 kg. in addition, they also sell souvenirs from sulfur which they carve and sell to visitors.