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Bromo (overnight) – Ijen – Kalibaru – Alaspuwo (5 days Tour)
Day I
At 08.00 a.m we start our tour to Tosari. On the first day, we will visit Singosari and Sumber Awan temple, located in Singosari sub district 15 minutes to the north side from Malang. Singosari is the most popular temple in Malang and it is one of the Singosari Kingdom heritages, and Sumber Awan temple is the only one Buddhist temple in Malang. From this temple we will drive to the local village and see the activities of the villager when they are working to make kitchenware from river stone. Then we see the traditional sand mining before we drive to Wonosari tea plantation. After we explore the plantation we continue our trip to Tosari village (the nearest village from bromo). In Tosari, we can see the beautiful landscape of local farming area.
Day II
Early in the morning at 03.30 am, we will start our tour to Mt Pananjakan (the view point) where we will see the spectacular process of sunrise, also the beautiful scenery of Mt bromo, Mt batok and Mt Semeru. After we see the process of sunrise, we continue our trip to the crater of Bromo via the sea of sand. In the sea of sand we will park our car near by Hindus temple. From the parking area, we have two choices to get the top of Mt Bromo by riding horse or on foot. After we arrive on the slope of Bromo we have to climb the 249 steps to see the crater. From Mt Bromo we will drive to Cemorolawang Village for having breakfast, and then continue to Sempol passing beautiful landscape of East Java. In Sempol, we can enjoy the coffee plantation and natural hot spring water.
Day III
At 05.00 am, we drive to Paltuding (trekking point) about 45 minutes, and start trekking to the top Ijen plateau. Normally it takes 1, 5 hour. Along the way to the top of Ijen, we can see the activities of sulfur miners when they are carrying sulfur from the bottom of crater and bring it down to the slope of Ijen Volcano. After we explore the beautiful of Ijen we will transfer to Kalibaru via Licin area, passing clove plantation.
Day IV
After having breakfast, we continue our tour to Kalibaru plantation (to see the process of coffee, rubber, and cacao). It is a large Netherlands plantation, located in the eastern part of Java. From Kalibaru plantation we drive to Alas Purwo National Park and stay overnight in the simple guest house there.
Day V :
In the last day, we will do jungle trekking to explore the natural rainforest and wildlife of Alas Purwo National Park. Then we continue the trip to Ketapang Harbor / Lovina / Malang / Surabaya.