Monday, January 1, 2007

Kawah Ijen Bondowoso

Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen) is a famous tourism object which has been known by the domestic and foreign tourists because of the beautiful and charming nature. Ijen Crater is a mountain which is still active now, it is 5,466 hectares, 2,386 meters high from the depth of the sea, with a 92 hectare tourism forest. An interesting attraction on that tourism forest is in its nature, such as : the beauty of the animal and plantation like mountain banana, jamuju, flower wood, pakis haji, etc, also the geological charm, with cool temperature between 2-18 degree celcius. In addition, the plant which dominates the crater lip is fasinium and the animals are wild pigs, wild cock, and many kinds of birds.
To reach Ijen Crater from Surabaya, we can use the public transportation with the route as follow:
- Surabaya - Bondowoso : 180 km with public bus
- Bondowoso - Paltuding : 68 km with public transport
- Paltuding - to the location : 2 km on foot

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