Beautiful Ijen Crater

via javassunrise

This is one of Indonesia's incredible natural beauty that have led many tourists from many countries. Here you can see an amazing wide crater lake along the blue flame of sulfur at night. In addition to being a tourist destination hiking, Ijen Crater is also a traditional sulfur mining areas up and down the former arena eruption crater which is still active.

Mount Ijen have a location in the Crater Ijen Park and Park Reserve Ijen in the district Licin and sub-district Klobang and Bondowoso regency. The mountain is located 2,368 meters above sea level where the peak is a series of volcanoes in East Java such as Bromo, Semeru and Merapi. Ijen Crater is the largest sulfur mining areas in East Java are still using traditional means. Ijen has sublimat source of sulfur which seemed never runs out used for various industrial chemicals and purification of sugar.

Ijen Crater is one of the world's most acid crater. With the caldera wall as high as 300-500 meters and wide crater reached 5466 hectares. The crater in the middle of the caldera is the largest on the Java Island with a size of 20 km. The size of the crater itself is around 960 meters x 600 meters. The crater is located at a depth of more than 300 meters below the caldera wall.

Views of the crater is so amazing when exposed by the morning sun emits turquoise shiny. The light coming from behind Mount Merapi, so do not miss to be captured by the camera. Water crater bluish green quiet but you are not allowed to descend because water crater volume of approximately 200 million cubic meters heat at 200 degrees Celsius. The degree of acidity is very high crater close to zero so that it can dissolving the the human body even clothes quickly.

Early morning at 01.00, when the sun had not refract light to open the beauty of this crater lake, there is another miracle presented Ijen. Under the crater glow blue flame (blue fire) of liquid sulfur flowing endlessly to be dried by the wind then became a rock and chopped. Chunks of sulfur is then placed on two wooden baskets and dipakul down the mountain as far as 3 miles. Not a light load because the weight of the basket can carry up to 100 kg.

In the southeast crater there are solfatara field which is the crater ijen lake wall. In the western part of the ijen crater there is a dam which is upstream of Banyupait Lake. Field solfatara Mount Ijen always release of volcanic gases with a high concentration of sulfur gases and smell that sometimes sting. Dam Ijen is part of the attraction interesting but not always visited by tourists because of the way to get there is quite difficult and often damaged by landslides. Ijen Crater Dam is a concrete building built since the time of the Netherlands and is intended to regulate the water level of the lake so as not to cause flooding acidic water. But the dam is now not working because the water never reached the door of water due to water seepage under the dam lake.