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Bromo (o.n) – Ijen (o.n) – Alaspurwo (o.n)
Day I
After having breakfast we start our tour to Tosari. The first place we visit is Singosari and Sumber Awan temple, located in Singosari sub district; it’s about 45 minutes to the north side of Malang. Singosari is the most popular temple in Malang and it was 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 will 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, you 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 ). From here we will see the spectacular process of sunrise, also the beautiful combination 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 the Hindus temple. From the parking area, we have 2 choices to get to the top of Mt Bromo, you can choose between riding horse or on foot. After we arrive in the slope of Bromo we have to climb via 249 steps to see the crater. From Mt Bromo we will drive to Cemorolawang Village for having breakfast, then transfer to Sempol, where we stay overnight, via 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 (entrance point) for about 45 minutes, and start trekking to the top Ijen plateau. Normally it takes 1, 5 hours. 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 Alas Purwo National Park and stay in a simple guesthouse there.
Day IV :
In the morning we will do jungle trekkking to see the natural rainforest and wildlife of Alaspurwo National Park and walk to the beach. After we see all part of Alas Purwo we will continue to Surabaya /Malang / Ketapang Harbour