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Thursday, 3 May 2012

Jing climbs Mt Bromo Volcano in Indonesia

Last week Jing went to Indonesia to climb Mt Bromo a 2,400 metre still-active volcano.  She was with a group of people, 20-odd, a kind of volcano-climbing club, from round the region mainly Indonesia and Singapore.
She took some piccies with her iPhone, and they're stunning; well done, Jing!
Some of them look pretty scary to me: check out the first one, looking down the throat of the active caldera. Jing said it was indeed scary, and felt like one slip of the foot and whooops....
She's heading off to another Indonesian volcano with the same crowd, next week: this one 3,750 metres. She says it's a bit addictive, so she's becoming, what, a "volcano whisperer"?
Wanna slip down here.  As Amy Winehouse would say: "no, no, no...."

The diaphanous waterfall 

The Chinese call this "Sea Cloud"

"It's steeper than it looks", says Jing.  Looks plenty steep to me...

At the top of Bromo ridge

Knife-edge walking.  Not for me: I get High Anxiety

This is similar to the photo in the Wikipedia entry. Bromo is the large one
in the foreground.  The one at rear is also active, not sure its name

The volcano whisperer on the top ridge
UPDATE: A couple more photos above this post, here.

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