BROMO-IJEN-SUKAMADE FROM SURABAYA

We pick you up at your hotel or at the airport in Surabaya (Juanda Airport). We need around 4 hours to get to the village Cemara Lawang. We overnighted in the Bromo area.

You will be waken up at 03.00 o’clock in the morning, and have a cup of coffee or tea before we leave for a short drive – 3 kilometres only – to Pananjakan. The last 1.5 kilometres you walk to the highest viewpoint in the area to see the sun rise. But, of course, whether you are able to see the sunrise depends on the weather conditions. Then we will descend to the Sand Sea to see the crater of mount Bromo. Afterwards we go back to the hotel to have breakfast. After that we continue our trip and drive in around 4 hours to the Ijen area via Pasir Putih Beach, where we have lunch at a beach side restaurant. Here after, we drive for another 3 hours before we arrive at the village Sempol (Ijen area) to pass the night. Before the night falls, you have time to explore the surroundings.  There is, among others, a hot spring with sulphur, an area where coffee seedlings are grown and a waterfall. Or, if you are tired you can spent some leisure time in the hotel.

Around 01:00am , ijen expedition team will bring you to the the parking area of Mount Ijen, around 50 minute from hotel. This trips is crossed the arabica coffee plantation. After arrival at parking area, continued trekking to Ijen crater it’s need around 1.5 until 2 hours. trekking to the ijen crater about 3Km ( 2.386m ) . enjoying the wonderful of bluefire/blue flame and acid lake. After sunrise ijen expedition team will bring you back to parking area, on the way you can see the beautiful panorama and the sulfur miners. around 1 hour you will arrive di parking area, here you can drink some coffee or tea after that we continue drive to Pesanggaran to the protected Sukamade turtle beach, an unspoiled three kilomtres of  white sandy beaches on the Indian Ocean. While driving, we pass the extensive and famous plantations of East Java and the maountain rage of the Meru Betiri National Park. After we’ve arrived you still have time to visit the  Sukamade beach to see sunset, where you can witness local people. In the evening you will be guided by a ranger to find sea turtles that come ashore to lay their eggs. A female turtle lays more than one hundred eggs. She usually comes ashore around 19.30 and returns to the sea around midnight. You overnight in simple guest house in the Meru Betiri National Park.

After breakfast you can further explore the surroundings of Sukamade. we will continue the trip to  Surabaya. On our way we will stop at a local restaurant for lunch (not included). and finishes