Thursday, July 16, 2009

Lombok - Rinjani

the first time we saw the top thru the clouds - after about 6hrs of uphill climbing...

walking the ridges on the way down - this part was just pure sand. it took us 5 hours to get down - and it was harder than the way up. and i'm sure it was the way down that caused the 5 days (!!!!) of brutal muscle ache we both had!!!

So, this is why we were lucky: the baby volcano inside the crater lake is active at the moment! it started again about 2 weeks before we climbed up - so it was ashes and rumbling and lava all the way!! and all the night!

you can see the lava stream creating the steam in the water
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