Ijen Crater

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Do you know ijen crater? ijen crater is an area in Indonesia in Banyuwangi, East Java. This tour has ever published and well known To the French State through A Ushuwaia Adventure which shows Nicolai Hulot sang-cruisers proved easy to Ijen crater visited through Banyuwangi or Bondowoso.

The uniqueness of the Ijen crater tours other than on a very beautiful panoramanya is seeing traditional transported mining sulphur by means of high manpower. This traditional mining in Indonesia is said to have only just (Welirang and Ijen). Load carried each per person weighing up to 85kg.

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This extraordinary heavy burden for most people, whereas the sulfur transported through the steep wall of the Caldera and the 800 m down the mountain as far as 3 km. income received a bearers approximately 25 thousand dollars per day, or about 300 rupiah per kilonya. A typically only able to bearers bring down one time each day, because of the severity of the job. A few hundred meters there is a round building of ancient relics in the Netherlands that reads "Watering Ijen crater", which is now referred to as the post Round, a post in which miners weigh charge and get a piece of paper about the charge and its value. 

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Travel tours to Ijen crater, starting from Paltuding, a post of 1,600 mdpl teak wood at the foot of Mount Merapi-Ijen. From here the road uphill to the height of land 2, 400 m above sea level with the road travel time 2 hours leisurely. Along the way many ran into a friendly exchange bearers sulfur greetings.