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Mount Bromo Indonesia

February 20, 2011|Landscape, Latest Work, News, Travel5

Day 1 Java, Mount Bromo Indonesia
This is the fifth in a series of posts about my recent travels to Indonesia, and Nepal. This post is about the famous Mount Bromo Indonesia. You can click on the following links to read the other posts if you are intersted:  South Korea, Bali, Lombok and the famous Mount Rinjani.

A few days after arriving in Bali, and nearly missing my flight from South Korea, we made a 3 hour drive, and a short 20 minute ferry trip to Java Island and Mount Bromo Indonesia. Although it’s very close to Bali, it’s a much different place in regards to the culture.

Mount Bromo Indonesia

Mount Bromo – East Java, Indonesia

Bali is 95% Hindu, and the rest of Indonesia is primarily Muslim. My first thoughts when landing in Indonesia were “Dang it’s hot here”. Everyday, I would change my clothes a few times, and grab a shower or 2. It’s very humid and sticky, and it wasn’t even really the hottest time of the year. Once we arrived in Java, we had to drive for about 6 hours to reach Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. We had one of the most hardcore drivers I experienced during my whole trip; this guy was a very ruff driver, but very experienced…

It was much cooler up in the Semeru region, and it really felt good for a change. The next morning at about 4am, we woke up and walked down the driveway to wait for our 4WD Jeep to show up… They only allow Jeeps from the “Bromo Jeep Club” to enter deep into the park and up to the viewpoints. The road was quite rugged, and after about 45 minutes of bouncing around in the back of the jeep (literally), we reached the viewpoint. It was quite a madhouse up there, as this is one of the most famous tourist attractions in all of Indonesia. Had a hard time finding a decent composition up there because of all the trees and people. I would say there were around 100 people at the main viewpoint.

Mount Bromo Indonesia Sunrise

Early morning at Mount Bromo – East Java, Indonesia

Mount Bromo Indonesia – Sunrise

After fighting the crowd around there a bit and waiting for the sunrise, our driver took us to another much nicer location where I made the B&W photo above. I wish we would have just gone to this spot for the sunrise in the first place, but we didn’t know about it. Next time I know where to go… Didn’t really get an amazing sunrise, but I was happy to witness this amazing scene while the volcano was spewing smoke and ash. A week later, it erupted and the area was closed off…

Mount Bromo Indonesia - Smoke

Mount Bromo – Smoke

Photo info: This is a single exposure at f/16, 24mm. I used a 2-stop soft GND filter to hold back the sky a bit. You can click here to read my articles on filters if you are interested…

Mount Bromo Indonesia - Clouds

Mount Bromo – Clouds

Despite this area being so popular and heavily photographed, I would still love to re-visit again someday..

July 27, 2013 Jesse

5 Responses to Mount Bromo Indonesia

  • Alister Benn September 19, 2011

    A really solid body of work in here, very well presented. Very much enjoyed your travels, many places I know well… All the best…

  • Jesse September 19, 2011

    Thanks Alister! I recently discovered your website also, and you have some really great images!

  • helminadia November 20, 2011

    I love the black and white there Jess,very nice…trying to make mine did not get it right 🙂

  • Sathya March 13, 2012

    Hi Jesse, This is Sathya here. Stumbled across ur work and loving it.

    Awesome shots. Like the processing on the first shot. As u said it would have been nice to see that with the sun rise 🙂

  • Jesse June 4, 2012

    Hi Sathya – Thanks for the kind words…

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