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November 3rd 2008
Published: November 3rd 2008
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Hiking Volcanos - by Ahmad Muslim & Chantal Hamel Subject: Trip on Mount Tembora, Sumbawa, Indonesia Time: Friday, October 10th, 2008 Location: Pancasila village, Mountain Tambora, Sumbawa Island Selamat pagi/Bonjour/Good morning and welcome to my blog. How is everyone? Here I just posted a trip that Me and Chantal did on Friday, Oct. 10th of 2008. We just came a week from Canada to Lombok on Fr... Read Full Entry



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Hi everyone, welcome to my world. I am a Sasak decent from Lombok, Indonesia and I have been here in Canada for seven years...that's quite long for me, but I think I will stay a little bit more before going to move to my hometown in Lombok. Canada is a small country after Russia and it has approximately 33, 000,000 people by 2009. I like Canada because the people here are nice, friendly, and safe place to raise children. ... full info
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Post 2Post 2
Post 2
At Post 2, we rested for some minutes just for eating mie goreng (fried nooddles) and drinking coffee. In this picture: Me (Muslim), Aris and Herianto
Rest timeRest time
Rest time
I was having a stomachache because too much walking.
Post 2Post 2
Post 2
At Post 2, we rested for some minutes just for eating mie goreng (fried nooddles) and drinking coffee. In this picture: Chantal, Aris and Herianto
Rest timeRest time
Rest time
We were feeling tired, but happy together.
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Post 4
We were exhausted after we walk from the Post 3 to the Post 4, so we have to take rest.
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Post 4
Many tall trees were surrounding us because we were in the forest.
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Post 4
With tall forest trees around us.
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Post 4
Tall plants around.
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Post 5
We finally arrived at 5 p.m. after we walked from more than 9 hours or it takes a day to go up from Post 1 - 5. We were happy that we succeeded the trekk till Post 5, but the next day we have to climb to the peak.
Post 5Post 5
Post 5
The day was almost close, as our cooking was almost ready. We ate fried nooddle together or in Indonesian mie goreng.
The flag at the peakThe flag at the peak
The flag at the peak
We had to put our flag to indicate where we came from and we had to come back at the same direction where we came from.
Tambora's peakTambora's peak
Tambora's peak
Early morning in Tambora's peak.
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Tambora's peak
Chantal and I at peak mount Tambora. We could not take any pic of the caldera because we were there and stood by for some minutes and then suddenly there was a foggy day.
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Tambora's peak
One of the tour guide, Herianto was photographed with Chantal Hamel and with beautiful wild native plants.
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Tambora's peak
Another pic of Herianto, alias Anto and Chantal Hamel.
Going downGoing down
Going down
We ended up our view on top of the mount and then we went down the hill for 9 hours by foot.



18th August 2009

Shyn
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Trekking in Mount Tambora
Hi Chantal and Muslim, I hope you still check this blog. I came across an article about Mount Tambora, and am very interested to come by for a trek. Could you give me more information as to when's the best time to come, how i can get there and how i can arrange for accommodation/ guide and so on? Thank you. Regards, Shyn (Malaysia)
19th October 2009

Muslim
Ahmad Muslim

Take a tour in Lombok
Hi Shyn, Good morning. How are you? Sorry for the waiting in responding your requirement about how to trek the Mount Tambora. Well, I have a friend who works at the travel agency in Lombok and his name is Rahimin. He had experience in taking many tourists around the Lombok island and some I suppose around Sumbawa and also Flores island to see Komodo Dragon (animal wonders in the world). You can contact him to make an arrangement about the hiking mount Tambora at (62) 81805717758 or email at karlin_86@yahoo.com Singapore and Lombok serves an international flight (about 3 hours direct flight) with Silk Air every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. If traveling using public bus then it will take you so long to wait until to get to the destination because everyday the bus leaves at about 10 am. and arrive in Kandindi, Sumbawa about 6 am. too. So if traveling by own car (with the tour guide) it will be shorter the trip. The best time to visit is in May or in August or September because you can feel the air during the hike in mount Tambora not too hot and plus you can see the crater better at the peak. Rainy season is not the best to climb any mountain there because it might be foggy, cloudy, rain, and etc. Wet season: November-April and dry season: May-October. So, hopefully this info is useful for you and I am really sorry because am so late to reply your email. Thanks anyway for your interest to read my blog and good luck Shyn.

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