ITINERARY
DAY 1
Surabaya – Bromo. Pick up Surabaya Airport by our private car, driving in 4 hours to reach Bromo area. Check in at hotel/home-stay in Bromo. Standard room with breakfast, cool & hot shower. Free program.
DAY 2
Bromo – Ijen. Wake up call at2. 30 AM. At 3.00 AM, the 4WD jeep will pick you up at hotel. (sharing). Then bring you for Bromo Tour, through the sea of sand, we will visit Penanjakan 1 Peak, this place is very popular as the highest point to catch sunrise. Bromo Crater, drive down through the sea of sand again and heading to Bromo Crater, reach the jeep parking area, you may walk or ride the pony horse to reach the bottom of Mt. Bromo, then walking through the upstairs to reach the rim of it, enjoy the Bromo Crater then back to jeep parking area. The jeep will leave Bromo sea of sand and bring you back to hotel for breakfast time. Check out at 10 AM, then driving in 5-6 hours to reach Ijen area. Lunch in the local restaurant along the route. We will reach Ijen area around 5 PM. Check in at Arabica or Catimor or Ijen Resto Homestay. Standart room with breakfast, cold & hot shower. Free program.
DAY 3
Ijen Crater - sukamade (Blue Fire Program). Wake up at 00.30 am, check out homestay at 1.00am to Paltuding, travel about 45 minutes from homestay. Breakfast is packed in a box then we take away, at 2 am we will arrive at Paltuding, this is the entrance before trekking to Ijen.local guide will accompany you for trekking. after traveling about 3km, you will arrive at the summit crater and can enjoy BLUE FLAME from the top. Blue Flame is a natural phenomenon due to high sulfur content, because sulfur scent is strongly recommended here using a gas mask. because ijen is the largest area of sulfur producers so many locals people work as sulfur miners. You can see the blue light from burning sulfur. One can only see the Blue Flame in the dark and there is no rain. If conditions are possible and safe (no warning from the Volcanic Body), you can walk down the rim of the Ijen crater, then join the sulfur miners to see the blue flame closer and know how the miners perform, while enjoying the blue lake at the bottom of the crater, and also sunrise will complete your journey back to paltuding.you will arrive in the parking area (paltuding) around 7-8 am. then continue the journey to the city jajag with travel time approximately 2 hours. after arriving in jajag city we will exchange cars, jeep will take us continue journey to sukamade national park. along the way we will be served a lot of landscapes very beautiful. after going through the red islands, bay ijo, coffee plantations, chocolate, rubber forests and crossing 3 creeks that add to the sensation of traveling as an adventure. we will arrive at homestay after 2hour journey.we take a rest while enjoying the solitude of nature. at 7 pm we head to the turtle breeding center and follow some directions. After that we head to the beach to see turtles coming to lay their eggs and this is a rare occurrence. because the turtle rarely comes to lay eggs and only a few places are the habitat. and SUKAMADE in between.after satisfied witness the phenomenon that we returned to the hotel to rest.(some rangger accompany us)
DAY 4
sukamade - surabaya. at 7 am we will return to the breeding center. the captive officer will give us some baby turtles to be released to the beach. after completing this process we return back to the homestay for breakfast and prepare to continue the journey to port banyuwangi or return to surabaya and the program is completed.
INCLUSION
- private transportation, (including petrol, parking and toll fees)
- Jeep 4WD for Bromo Tour & Sukamade
- 1 night hotel in Bromo, (standard room with breakfast, cold & hot shower)
- 1 night in Ijen, (standard room with breakfast, cold & hot shower)
- 1 night homestay in Sukamade
- local guide & gas mask in Ijen
- english speaking driver
- mineral water
- entrance fee bromo, ijen, & sukamade
EXCLUSION
- personal need & meal (lunch and dinner)
- riding pony horse to Bromo Crater
- travel insurance