hot stones

What a day. Again. The sunshine greeted us and the viee was splendid. It reminded me of Bhutan when it was the same situation. How lucky we were. Before breakfast mum and me quickly went home the small hill and had a gorgeous view of the surroundings. After a delicious breakfast we started with our monster truck in direction of the cones where the magna erupted from the 1975 eruption. We climbed it up and the colors were amazing. Vitaly explained a lot, he knows heaps about volcanos here. The scientist could predict the 75’s eruption a couple of days before so they could evacuate the village around. The ground up there is still hot, if you dig a bit deeper it is too hot to touch. Amazing, this after more then 40 years! After getting down again we had a delicious lunch and we continued to the dead forest, a forest that was covered with up to 20m ashes. The trees died because of the toxic air and they stick out as dried wood. At some places where the ashes weren’t that high the nature has taken slowly over already. Again impressive sight. Next station was a lava cave, also incredible. You have again this feeling of being a insignificant little blup in the big big universe imagining those forces that shows at such an eruption. I talked about that with Tony, the Australian. He is a vet and now does food for exotic animals. Very interesting. He teached me about animal poo, the different kind. In case you find poo that is white and there is fur inside it is from an animal that is obligatory carnivore. He also found an ulna of a little aninal, we supposed those were the little ground squirrel. He also showed some moose poo, that one is very light and has just fibers in them. Again, learnt a lot and poo is very informative! We ended the day with a debriefing about tomorrow, the ascent on the first volcano that will be probably in the snow. So we hope for sun and some dry feet!Read more