I took a 3 days trip to Bromo volcano. There are also some other ones, still active. Check the pictures. From there the next day we went to Ijen region, through coffee plantations, we visited a coffee factory. Ijen volcano - in its crater the workers dig sulphur, then they carry it up the crater, and down to the valley. One load is around 75kg !!! They do this twice a day, so around 150 kg. And they get 600 rupiah per 1 kg, which is 0.05 euro ... so per day they earn around 8 euro. This tour ended in the harbour on the west coast of Java, from where we took the boat on our own. I went with 2 Taiwanese girls. Although I have asked them stupid question like: "Is Taiwan part of
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