Hell on Earth - Kawah Ijen

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March 20th 2013

Published: March 20th 2013

This was a real adventure… and quite dangerous one. We set out from Pemuteran early in the morning: half an hour drive to the ferry, an hour by ferry to Java and then 1,5 hour jeep drive to the crater. The ferry trip took a bit of courage. It was full of locals and almost all of them were smoking. The only place with fresh air was the upper deck. The ferry itself was going by some strange route... Read Full Entry

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Yuka

yuka

Hi :) It's a few years already since I left the country where I was born - never to return there. In this blog I want to share my travel experience, my thoughts and impressions. And I want to tell you how much my ideas about the world got changed. When you travel you see that in different countries people live very differently, and with time you are no longer stuck to the stereotypes of only one nation, you can choose your own life style taking the best from all others. My big interest is psychology, so I'll write not only about places but also about people who live t... full info

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20th March 2013

Anastasia78
Anastasia78

Great blog!
Really well written and informative. Love the photos too. I look forward to following your many adventures! Keep up the good work! :)

20th March 2013

Ali
Ali Watters

Really nice blog! Great photos...
A few points I'd make on your closing paragraph, in that part of Indonesia $5 day is a great wage, 5x the average plus the money they make from tourists. It's more like a westerner taking a dangerous mining job at $500 a day, the risk of black lung vs the great wages in the short term. I can see why an uneducated guy from Ijen would be tempted by this job, lots of unemployment not much alternative. Pretty much every adult male in Indonesia smokes, the tobacco companies have a lot to answer for across the whole of Asia, that being the norm I don't think it indicates disregard for their families... just another symptom of poor people willing to trade the long term for the short!

21st March 2013

yuka
Yuka

If $5 a day is a great wage for them - it explains why they do it. But I still consider them self-killers. I wouldn't exchange half of my life for any money.

21st March 2013

ibn
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can i enlarge photo?

21st March 2013

yuka
Yuka

I think what you see when you click on the photo is the maximum size

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