It's a 1am start for a 1 hour drive up in a Jeep with MrYono to Kawah Ijen. The walk trail is steep, slippery and it's dark. Fortunately there is a nice moon and its not too cold. The says sign says it's only 3kms, but I doubt that. There are no porters on the trail as yet, and we just a few tourists. We reach the crater rim about 1000mt climb about 3:30am. From here its a straight drop 300mts into the crater floor and where they mine....or more correctly hack out the sulphur with picks. The sulphur deposit glows bright blue as if it's on fire - hence the name fire and brimstone! Lake Ijen is turquoise and very acidic, but in the moonlight of 4am it also glows eerily. It's an amazing It's
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