Mount Ijen

January 23, 2024 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

We woke up at 00.30 to climb Mount Ijen, an active volcano in East Java which has the biggest acid lake in the world in its crater, and is home to sulphur deposits, which produce a rare phenomenon of "blue flame" - where the sulphuric gas combined with oxygen and sparked by lava produce a blue fire.Read more