Indonesia is the largest archipelago on the planet and the travel options are immense. In this first trip we will visit the islands of Java, Bali, Gili and Lombok. Each one of them is totally different and wonderful, although they have common links there are big differences.
It's 4 a.m., our taxi is waiting to take us to the Airport. Our flight leaves for Madrid with a stopover in Dubai, we still have a long way to go.
Airport
Our flight has been cancelled! After dawn... Our flight left at 6 in the morning (from Kuta it takes half an hour by taxi to the airport), and as they haven't filled the seats they have cancelled it, so we go to the complaints desk, after about twenty minutes arguing we manage to get on a flight that leaves at 10 and makes a one hour stopover in Denpasar Bali.
At 1 a.m. we leave with the van to the entrance point of the Park, the PHKA post in Pos Paltuding. It is cold and while waiting for our guide we have breakfast at a local post.
Our guide's name is Nini. We start, it is a path of about 3 kilometers to the observation post (about an hour), from here to the top of the crater is about half an hour.
At 3 a.m. we are picked up by a jeep, old but with a very good point, the bad thing is the smell of diesel. We do the tour from Cemoro Lawang, entering the great crater to climb to a viewpoint in the Gunung Penanjakan in which to see sunrise overlooking the Bromo.
We get up at 5.30 for breakfast before we leave. At 6.30 we are picked up by a car and taken to Yogya train station. We have a long journey ahead of us. The train is very basic, sky seats and quite dirty. The bathroom without words. The landscape is wonderful, very green, rice fields, palm trees...
We had breakfast at the hostel, which was very good. At 8 o'clock our driver Nono comes to pick us up.
We continued to the airport, having breakfast in the only open establishment, the Bim Burger, nasi goreng, wings, onion rings and hamburgers. We flew with Air Asia and our flight was delayed, from 4 A.M to 5.50 A.M. An hour later we arrived at the Airport in Yogyakarta.
After an 8-hour flight we arrive at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
We change terminal to take another plane to Yogyakarta, it's been a hard day.
