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Mount Batur in Bali

Not only Kuta, Sanur or Ubud, Bali has diverse tourist attractions. Therefore, if you visit Bali, try to enjoy something else. How about climbing Mount Batur? An attraction is quite challenging, but if you decide to climb Mount Batur as the latest challenge you on Bali, you should prepare enough stamina, because climbing usually to be done in the early morning. The goal is, so you can reach the top at dawn to enjoy the sunrise from the summit of Mount Batur. Yeah, of course, the climbers would not want to miss the most beautiful moment when the sunrises right?

And not only climb to the summit of Mount Batur, tourists can also perform tracking activities in the region of Mount Batur. Tracking can be done through routes encircle Lake Batur or Batur Caldera. Therefore, this activity is known as Batur Caldera Tracking. This is more challenging climb than the previous location because there are also a number of tourist objects around here, such as rock-climbing and Hindus funeral in Trunyanese.

Mount Batur is located around 64 kilometers northeast of Denpasar, and enrolled in the Kintamani, Bangli regency. There are several story versions about Mount Batur and the caldera, but some sources state said that Mount Batur is derived from an ancient mountain and had erupted several times, then form two caldera. Well, Mount Batur appears in the middle of caldera. Mount Batur itself had erupted in 1849, 1888, 1904, 1927, 1963, 1968, 1974 and 1994, with the largest eruption in 1927.

A little story by foreign tourists who had several times to climb the Mount Batur said that the Mount Batur has different privileges that don’t possess any other mountain, including the mountain in their country.

Mount Batur has long been known as a place to climb. First, around the 1980s the student nature lovers often climb the summit of Mount Batur. At first, they climb in the daytime. They did it just a hobby to search Edelweiss flowers as souvenirs. But then, they change direction to climb Mount Batur in the morning to enjoy the beautiful sunrise.

Sunrise on mount batur

Lake Batur visible from the summit

scenery from Mount Batur

Mount Batur peak

antoher Batur Mountain peak photo

first image via treklens

another images via nicolas leroy