Here is everything you need to know before visit Mount Bromo
Mount Bromo is one of the most attractive volcanoes in Indonesia. Lies in eastern Java, this active volcano known as the sacred volcano for local ethnic of Tengger.
The journey to Cemoro Lawang Village which is the closest village to explore Mount Bromo takes three hours from Malang or Surabaya and only needs two hours if you start from Probolinggo. Cemoro Lawang known as the best location to stopover among traveller. The next day, continue your journey to Mount Penanjakan by 4x4 to see the landscape of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.
Mount Bromo lies at an elevation 2.100 metres makes the temperature here is colder, especially at night in the dry season, it can reach 5°C at night and get warm around 20°C in the day.
The best time to visit Mount Bromo is during the dry season which spans from May to September. In this season, you have a big chance to watch the sunrise over the mountain. Your adventure is not over yet after sun arrives, enjoy the magnificent landscape when crossing the greatest volcanic caldera on earth Sea of Sand by 4x4 and be ready to climb the volcano to see the crater closer.
The creation of Mount Bromo and sea of sand originated from the two mountains that coincide with one another, stand tall at 4.000 metres, make Mount Bromo is the highest mountain in Java at the day. The big eruption occurred and created the caldera sea of sand which knowns as the greatest vulcanic ashes caldera on earth. This phenomenon also created the new mountains around the caldera such as Mount Penanjakan, Mount Cemoro Lawang, Mount Lingker, Mount Pundak Lembu, Mount Jantur, Mount Ider-ider, and Mount Mungal.
Get to know the Mount Bromo's facts below:
- The origin name of Tengger came from the story about childless King Joko Seger and Queen Roro Anteng who asked a child from the god of the volcano Sang Hyang Widhi. Because they refused to fulfill their promise to sacrifice the youngest child after getting twenty-five children, the god of the volcano took and threw their youngest child into the crater.
- Every fourteenth day in the month of Kasada, Tengger people held a ceremony named Kasada at the temple of Luhur Poten which lies on the foot of Mount Bromo. At the end of the ceremony, they throw offering such as vegetables, animals, money and all goods into the crater for blessing and peaceful life from Sang Hyang Widhi and their ancestors.
- Mount Bromo is a very unique volcano because it is a volcano inside a volcano. It makes Mount Bromo stand gorgeously in the middle of 5250-hectare volcanic ashes caldera and surrounded by towering cliffs of the crater's edge.
- Mount Bromo considered become the most attractive volcano in Indonesia. Even though Mount Bromo isn't the highest or tallest but from Mount Bromo vistas point you can see this volcano stand in front of the highest mountain in Java, Semeru Volcano.
Find the best way to reach Mount Bromo from Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Banyuwangi
BY PLANE
Jakarta (CGK) Soekarno Hatta International – Surabaya (SUB) Juanda
Jakarta (HLP) Halim Perdanakusuma – Surabaya (SUB) Juanda
Jakarta (CGK) Soekarno Hatta International – Malang (MLG) Abdul Rachman Saleh
Jakarta (HLP) Halim Perdanakusuma – Malang (MLG) Abdul Rachman Saleh
Yogyakarta (JOG) Adi Sucipto – Surabaya (SUB) Juanda
BY TRAIN
Yogyakarta (YK) – Probolinggo (PB) The best route
Yogyakarta (YK) – Malang (ML)
Yogyakarta (YK) – Surabaya (SGU)
Banyuwangi (BW) – Probolinggo (PB) The best route
Banyuwangi (BW) – Malang (ML)
Banyuwangi (BW) – Surabaya (SGU)
Prepare your journey, here is everything you need to pack before visit Mount Bromo
- Warm clothes
- Wear shoes, trekking shoes are preferable
- Torch
- Mosquito repellent
- Personal Medicine
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