Thursday 28 August 2014

These are a few of my favourite volcanoes...

Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes....and god only knows how many dormant or extinct peaks. Basically every peak you see is (or was) a volcano. But we never get sick of looking at them.

Tiny Lombok is home to the enormous Gunung Rinjani, at 3726m it's Indonesia's second highest volcano and is sacred to the Balinese and Sasak people. 


Merapi Volcano (2891m) is Sumatra's most active (the name means Mountain of Fire), no mean feat on such an unstable island. We never saw the peak of this one...always covered in clouds. 


Gunung Inerie is the highest peak on Flores (2245m) and wins the award for pointiest cone. The northern side is covered in ash, the southern side in vegetation....so no prizes for guessing which side you want to be on if (when) it erupts.



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