Ijen Crater

JavaBaliTrip organizes many tour packages, included Ijen Crater Tour. You may start exploring Ijen volcano from Bali island, Yogyakarta city or Surabaya city. This package must combine to visit and explore other great spots like; Bromo Crater, Borobudur temple, etc.

Ijen crater is sited at East Java Province, Indonesia that has magnificent phenomena. The Ijen volcano complex is a group of composite volcanoes located on the border between Banyuwangi Regency and Bondowoso Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is known for its blue fire, acidic crater lake, and labour-intensive sulfur mining.

It is inside an eponymous larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name “Gunung Merapi” means ‘mountain of fire’ in the Indonesian language; Mount Merapi in central Java and Marapi in Sumatra have the same etymology.

The blue fire is ignited sulfuric gas, which emerges from cracks at temperatures up to 600 °C (1,112 °F). The flames can be up to five meters (16 feet) high; some of the gas condenses to liquid and is still ignited.

Ijen is the largest blue flame area in the world. Local people refer to it as ‘Api Biru’ (Blue Fire). The other location at which blue fire can be seen is in Dallol mountain, Ethiopia