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Published: February 15th 2013
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It has been my dream to look into the crater of an active volcano and now it has come true.
A tip how to get to Aso volcano from Kumamoto: We took a bus from Kumamoto bus station, it takes about 2 hours to get to the cable car at the foot of the volcano. I've seen information on the internet that you can go there by train - that's not convenient. The train doesn't go directly to that place, you'll have to take a bus after that anyway.
The cable way may be closed because of volcanic activity, but you can still go up using a walking path.
When we came closer to the crater there was a smell of sulphur and the viewpoint was closed because volcanic gas was going just in its direction. When the wind blew from the crater the sulphur smell got stronger and I had a cough sometimes. We bought protecting masks but they turned out to be useless.
So we went to the right for a short track around caldera and up the mountain and it turned out a very good thing to do - there were so many beautiful
views. In the end we came to the main crater from opposite side. I will not describe everything we saw in too many words - from photos you'll get a better idea about it.
And we were lucky - on our return the wind changed and the view point was opened, so we had a peek into the very deep of the main crator with its lake of aquamarine color. This lake is a mix of sulphuric and hydrochloric acid - but it's so beautiful, that it takes quite an effort to realize that it's so dangerous.
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Dancing Dave
David Hooper
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"It has been my dream to look into the crater of an active volcano and now it has come true"...couldn't agree more...scary but stunning!