BATU CITY & PARAGLIDING

Batu City

By: Dayat

Standing 680-1700 meter above the sea level with temperature approximately 15-19 celcius, Batu City nowadays become one of most visited entertaining city in East Java. Only 19 km from Malang and 2 hours drive from Surabaya.

The geographical surrounding in Batu City suits for farming, especially vegetable and fruits plantations. Most of local people are farmer; they plant kinds of vegetable on wide terrace-stage of mountain nearby, such as carrots, cauliflowers, potatoes, etc.

By : Dayat

Batu City also produce very popular product, it's apple. Batu apple well known all across Indonesia , the variety of apples which farmer usually grows are Manalagi apple, Anna apple, Wanglin apple and Rome Beauty apple. Each apples have different flavor, texture and shape. It won’t be complete when we visit Batu City without taste the fresh and healthy of Batu City's apple. 
 Since Dutch colonial era, Batu has became favorite destinations place for recreation of  colonial officers, they called it De Kleine Switzerland in Java. So there are many colonial buildings in Batu City, some of them are abandoned  but the other still well managed until now; such as Hotel Kartika Wijaya which founded by Armenian Sarkies Brothers (founders of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore) on late 1800. 

By : Dayat

There are many attractive places to see, such as Cangar hot spring, Coban Rondo water fall, Hiking to Arjuno Mountain or to Welirang Mountain to see sulfur mine. Batu City not only provide nature trips but also interesting activities  to do such as : paragliding at Banyak Mountain, visiting Agro tourism to know what it feels to be traditional farmer and you can do water trekking or rafting. 

 

It is never enough to describe the beauty of Batu City, so  OURTRIP1^st kindly guide you to be there, details you may check thru our store website www.ourtripfirst.com

SEMPU LAGOON TREKKING

Segara Anakan - Sempu Island 

Have you ever visited a kind of lagoon? 

Local people mention the lagoon as Segara Anakan. Segara means Ocean, and Anakan means little kid, so it means “little ocean” and located hidden inside Sempu Island.

Yes.!!.. this beautiful lagoon - with white sandy beach - is hidden inside the island. We need to cross the bay, using traditional boat and walk along the forest to get there.

We could see diversity of rain forest plants, such as type of Artocarpus elasticus, rattans, mangroves and sometime we could see the silvered-leaf monkey also boar.

In the lagoon, we could lay down on the sand, snorkeling, and also climb up the the hill to see the blue ocean behind.

Come see the lagoon and enjoy your adventure here.  
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BROMO CRATER VOLCANO

Sunrise at Bromo Mountain

Bromo is one of the most extraordinary volcano mountain in the world. With the high around 2,329 meter above the sea, Bromo is accessible for everyone for climb up to the top see through inside of creater. The diameter of the creater is around ± 800 meters (from north - to south side) and about ± 600 leters (from east - to west side). And the crater constantly belches white sulphurous smoke in every in every second the whole of the day. 

Bromo is not standing alone it the huge caldera. There is Batok Maountain (2447 meter high) which has beautiful shape (the top look like has been cut) and covered by green algae on every side. Both of that mountains are surrounded by magnificent caldera, which call as Lautan Pasir (Sea of sand), not only the wide space of caldera (approximately 10 km) is become main attraction of caldera, but also wonderful spot such as pasir berbisik (whispered sand), savannah  or teletubbies hills are remarkable scenery . 

Bromo mountain is located on three different city, Malang, Pasuruan and Probolinggo. So there is 3 different route to reach it. And every of every city has different specialization to describe the beauty Bromo Mountain.

It won’t be enough to describe the beauty of nature by reading from literature. And it will be complete if we are breath the fresh of the air, touch the sand, and walking through by our own self.

 We would love and honor to share our trip with you. 

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IJEN SULPHUR CRATER

Ijen Crater

photo courtessy : Fiki

Never getting enough to hike any mountains? Never getting enough to reach the top and amazed with the whole wide view? This time we'd like to offer you a different experience of mountain hiking when you reach the top..

Might you experience the sulphur crater on top of the mountain, here on this Ijen mountain you'll experience a short hike up which finally lead you to spot the huge blue crater with strong sulphur smell.

While you experience the magnificent surroundings and views from the lips of the crater, you're able to walk down that challenging dusty road nearby the crater lips to see the sulphur mine area closer. Be ready to wear your mask to cover your eyes and nose ; unless you might want to experience the strong smell.

photo courtessy : Fiki

Before you reach the hiking start-point on Ijen, you'll please your eyes with the magnificent views of hills around. Those green and yellowish grass along the small rocky path. There you might stop awhile to spot some sulphur stream as the appetizer for the next unforgettable view. Then it's time to stop and take a break before some hike up

photo courtessy : Fiki

Along your way up, you'll pass some locals who works on the sulphur miner going up and down frequently to collect the culphur stones. This is definetely scenes of Beautiful of Hard Life..

Some said they're paid only for few rupiahs for a kilo of sulphur stones, and that's the reason why they have to go up and down many times.

Otherwise, it always be a new sight experience on every travel journey, and we'd like to offer you this dramatize experience.. a beauty lies on efforts..

OURTRIP1^st kindly guide you to be there, details you may check thru our store website www.ourtripfirst.com