A Lonely Tour in Kintamani

In the mountain area around KIntamani, there is a mount that call "Gunung Batur" or Mount Batur with a deep cauldron lake and nature hot water in Toyabungkah. Cool mountain air, nature scenery, and several beautiful Balinese temples make Kintamani become a place that never forgotten by tourist in Bali. So many tour car rental preparing service to this place.

Mount Batur is the one little volcano, but the location is in center part of a big cauldron with diameter about fourteen kilometers. Be sides of that, Mount Batur adjacent with Lake Batur that has a sickle shape. You can also get there by tour car rental or your own car. The cauldron steepness will make you reflect an image the gigantic erruption from Mount Batur that happened ten thousand years ago.

The enchantment that available here is nature scenery more. By using tour car you can see all of nature scenery. One of the best is the combination from Mount Batur and Lake Batur scenery. All of that make this place become one of the most favourite destinations in Bali.

If you have a long time and you like photography or adventure, better you lodging in the place around Mount Batur. So, you can climb up Mount Batur or caldera of Batur for the next day. Here, you can enjoy the beautiful of sunrise from behind the Mount Rinjani in Lombok. Kintamani tour can be covered about two hours by using tour car from Kuta or Denpasar.

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The Land of God, Mount Bromo and Mount Semeru

The national park is named after its two mountains, Mount Semeru (the highest in Java at 3,676 metres), Mount Bromo (the most popular) and the Tengger people who inhabit the area.

Mount Semeru also known as Mahameru ("Great Mountain"), is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. What stands out most about this mountain is the fact that it erupts periodically (and very reliably so). Every 20 minutes or so, the volcano belches out a huge cloud of steam and smoke, sometimes interspersed with ash and stones. Climbing Mount Semeru requires some planning and a permit from the national park authority. The mountain is often closed due to its highly active nature.

Mount Bromo (2,329 metres) is easily recognized as the entire top has been blown off and the crater inside constantly belches white sulphurous smoke. It sits inside the massive Tengger caldera (diameter approximately 10 km), surrounded by the Laut Pasir (Sea of Sand) of fine volcanic sand. The overall effect is unsettlingly unearthly, especially when compared to the lush green valleys all around the caldera.



The area around the mountain is inhabited by the Tenggerese, one of the few significant Hindu communities left on the island of Java. The local religion is a remnant from the Majapahit era and therefore quite similar to that on Bali. It is though quite low key with the only visible manifestations of faith being a few rather basic temples. Still, for many visitors, the sight of angular-faced, sunburned, moustachioed Tenggerese wrapped in poncho-like blankets, trotting about on ponies with craggy mountains as the backdrop more resembles Peru than Indonesia!

The major access point is Cemoro Lawang at the northeast edge, but there are also trails from Tosari (northwest) and Ngadas (west). The village of Ngadisari, on the road from Probolinggo about 5.5 km before Cemoro Lawang, marks the entrance to the national park. Both Cemoro Lawang and Ngadisari are rather picturesque, with brightly-painted houses and flower beds outside.

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