mount bromo

i think that is the most beautiful volcano i have ever seen :D got up there with daniel from leipzig and louie from brighton and we shared the price of 2 rooms to make it a bit cheaper as prices up in the mountain were inflated as usually... the boys had their night bintang and we shared travel tales :) and off to bed to get up at 3am and climb up! louie took the jeep up, me and daniel did it the hard way :) and we saw the sunrise from the most beautiful viewpoint in the mountain :D also, there was no one else there because everyone had taken a jeep to the official viewpoint a bit higher then ours - well done for us!! it was absolutely amazing! we still walked up to where all the jeeps gathered and met louie who walked back down with us :)

my stomach wasn't feeling great... perhaps from the overcharged food at our expensive mountain hotel! but it didn't make the experience any less fantastic! and as we got back to the hotel around 9.30am we all went to sleep until 2.30pm and by them the stomach was back to normal! :)

we read our great books and walked to bromo for sunset :) again, a bit after the sunset there was no one else there... people seem to only want to be there for those minutes of the sun going up or down and that's it... they leave right after that! so the 3 of us sat at the crater and enjoyed the beauty of bromo :) it was really magical!

and so was the walk back to the hotel in the dark... we looked up and saw the most beautiful sky :D with shooting stars and that feeling that we are so small and there is SO MUCH MORE out there :D

got back and the boys got their bintangs again :) while i tried some local warm drink with kacang - peanuts. yumm!

the next day we couldn't be asked to walk up again ;) it was time to sleep and make the most of our overpriced beds! after breakfast we left on our over packed bemos and said goodbye at the bottom of the mountain as we were all headed to different places. i went east to take the ferry to bali xx