Indonesia - Bali - Kedisan Lake - Gunung Batur volcano

In the afternoon we droved to Kedisan Gunung Batur. The road was steep, small and quite difficult with the old Jimny especially on the way up. The view from the top was superb with the mountain and the lake.

We managed to find our lodging named Hotel Astra Dana with price of Rp. 70,000 including hot water and breakfast. Without the hot water, the shower was cool especially at night and in the morning. Hotel was located right on the lake’s edge and you can swim in the lake if you can bear with the cold water. The place is very nice, quite and seems to be completely dead by the time the sun down. The hotel also served ‘ikan bakar’ (grilled fish) with the reasonable price.

Climbing Mount Batur (1717 m)

Hotel provided the guide if you want to climb the mount Batur with price of USD 40/person. And the climb will start at 3.30 am to have a sun rise experience and breakfast in the summit. Since Igor has the experience on mountain climbing, we decided to do the climb by ourselves in the morning and skip the sun rise to avoid waking up too early in the morning.

So, we wake up at 8 am and by the time we finished our breakfast and drove the Jimny to the mountain feet, it’s already 9.30 am. We leaved our car down and walk up to the mountain. The road was quite smooth at the entrance to the mountain feet. We managed to climb to the summit in 1 hour and 15 minutes time and coming down in 1 hour time. Although the air was good and you can hardly feel the sun, it’s suggested that you put enough sun cream because we have suffered severed bad sun burn around our face and neck. View from the summit was wonderful and the air was very refreshing.

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