Mount Ijen is one of the volcanoes in Indonesia. Mount Ijen is located on the border of Banyuwangi Regency and Bondowoso Regency, East Java, Indonesia. Mount Ijen has a height of 2,386 meters above sea level. Mount Ijen last erupted in 1999. One of the famous natural phenomena of Mount Ijen is the blue fire (blue fire) formed by gas that meets oxygen at the bottom of the crater. Visiting Mount Ijen can be started from two places, Banyuwangi or from Bondowoso. This article will show you there are four things you will found on Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen).
Blue Fire
Ijen volcano has some of the highest sulfur levels in the world. Since the sulfur can spit out “blue lava”, it is unusual for a volcano. This blue Fire is not real from lava. The light (Blue Fire) is actually the light from burning sulfur gas. These gasses emerge from cracks in the volcano at high pressures and temperatures—up to 600 °C. When they come into contact with air, they ignite, sending flames 5m high. Some of the gas condenses into molten sulfur, which continues to burn as it flows down the slope that looks like a lava flow.
The Blue Fire of Ijen Crater can only be seen at night. The best time is between 2-4am, which is why you (Travelers) should start your tour early, around 1 or 2am. The sight of the fire at night is so Beautiful and amazing. Blue Fire phenomenon only occurs in Indonesia, especially in Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen).
Sunrise on Mount Ijen
When the sun starts to appear, the blue fire cannot be seen but you will be presented with a crater lake that is green tosca, the dominant crater wall is yellowish white, calm lake water, smoke billowing from sulfur mining mixed with fog, will eliminate everything your fatigue, coupled with the warmth that begins to burst along with the rising sun. Many people call it the natural phenomenon of the sunrise at the tip of the island o
Sulfur Miners
Mount Ijen is one of the famous sulfur mining activities in Indonesia. You can see sulfur miners carrying two baskets made of bamboo filled with yellow sulfur on their shoulders.According to a local tour guide he said that there are about 50 miners every day. Ijen Crater sulfur miners have been extracting sulfur here since 1968, they work at night alongside a stunning blue fire for tourists to escape the hot sun. Miners extract sulfur rock, which forms after a blue fire goes out and leaves sulfur behind. They then carried this sulfur into a basket on the side of the mountain to sell for their daily income.
Greenish Lake
We are presented with the beauty of the Greenish Ijen Crater lake which is very beautiful from the top of the crater. The Greenish lake in the volcanic crater of Kawah Ijen looks calm and stunning. However, it is also the largest acid lake in the world. The water in the crater lake has a pH of less than 0.3 on a scale of 0 to 14 (7 neutral). In fact, it is acid that makes water green. Can you swim in Ijen Crater? No, the lake was a 90 C sulfuric acid pool that no one lived in, and which would be very dangerous for anyone swimming in it.
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