Selamt malam! Apa kabar
? (= How are you going?) As promised last week, I leave you will still have some of my trips. This time we went to Mount Bromo, one of the many active volcanoes in Indonesia.
Friday after work we went by plane to Surabaya, in the eastern Indonesian island of Java. After another 3 hours bus ride we finally arrived at night at half past 2 at the hostel. There Were no electricity and so we hid arms for almost 2 hours with candles in our rooms. Promptly at 3:30 we were then thrown again out of bed to be transported by Sheeps on non-saturated paths to 3000m. There waiting for us then by 5 clock morning a phenomenal sunrise. And then as the first rays of the smoke of the smoldering volcano ran shine in a brilliant light, the feeling was postcard perfect.
Then we went to the lookout point Mount Bromo itself impressive when to jump on the Kratergrat, which is only two feet wide, travels to the volcano. Right and left is a steep downhill: enter on one side of the volcano down the outside ......... on the other in the volcano crater! Lava, we have not seen, but the smoke was even more dense, which escaped from the interior. Overall, an impressive natural spectacle that presented itself to us.
The force of nature, we have this weekend but not only seen in all its glory, but also cruel on his part. Before about 3.5 years, an oil company (owner is a current Minister of the Indonesian government), a 2000m deep test hole drilled to develop a new oil / gas field in the immediate vicinity of several villages. Security and safety measures were ignored completely and flow every day since then (!) 100,000 m3 of toxic sludge from the Earth's interior to the surface and buried everything among themselves. By the uncontrolled drilling a natural balance has been disturbed. The result: now, 16 villages of the mudslide at a 2m thick layer swallowed. Thousands of people had to be relocated and some were even killed in this man-made natural disaster. Additionally formed next to the big holes in some places near cracks in the earth, from which methane gas and toxic sludge shoots. We have seen a private property (see picture), whose house is completely eaten up by the fissure and the corrosive gas. In the middle of a village. If I had not myself seen, I would believe that it is a bad joke. Is it any of you interested in more detail: the incident even hats made up in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow).
2: this is the tip that is still on 2-story town house remaining. The rest is all buried in hardened mud ... So far so bad. What you next week for reading gets even know myself not as accurate. The plans are still in .....:)
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Peter
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