Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Volcano

Mount Abang is an old 2,151 meter high volcano ('Red Mountain'), on the eastern side of the crater southeast of Penelokan, is the highest point on Batur's outer crater.

Its advised to wear good shoes and warm clothes when you'll climb up to the peak. Once you've done it you'll have an unforgettable experience.

Mount Abang is an old 2,152 meter high volcano ('Red Mountain'), on the eastern side of the crater southeast of Penelokan, is the highest point on Batur's outer crater. Climbing it is demanding but easier than climbing Gunung Batur. The trailhead lies about six km southeast of Penelokan.

An asphalt road goes to the village Toya Bungkha . 2000 was the last eruption of the Batur. The lava stream did not run over this highway.

Turning around a curve a dummy sudden stops our car and it seems he got on to control our papers. By luck he wasn't real.

Close to the mountain foot a lot of residential estates built for their living space. Volcanologists say that the lava stream goes other ways than in direction to the housing estates.

The village of Trunyan is squeezed tightly between the lake and the outer crater rim of Batur, the almighty volcano in Kintamani.

After all our visit in Trunyan village the sky changed to a colorful view to the Batur mountain. and to the settlements at the foot of the volcano called Toya Bungkha. The caldera is populated and includes the two main villages of Kedisan and Toya Bungkah. The locals largely rely on agriculture for income but tourism has become increasingly popular due to the relatively straightforward trek to the summit of the central crater.

Sometime we thought that the Batur volcano would erupt but it was the scenes of the clouds changing their formation in minutes.

At Kuban sub-village close to Trunyan is a mysterious cemetery that is separated by the lake and accessible only by boat, there is no path along the steep walls of the crater rim.

After the weather changed to stop raining, a mystic quietness came over the lake and the fishermen went out to make their catch.

Scenes changed from minutes to minutes, from heavy rain to fog to colorful clear sights with some sun rays. When we arrived Trunyan village we preferred to wait an hour till the rain stopped.

Trunyan is also a Bali Aga village. Bali Aga village is a village which inhabited by descendants of the original Balinese. Bali Aga are a unique ethnic group that still live and practise a way of life that pre-dates modern civilisation. They have pre-Hindu way of life with ancient, neolithic customs and a conscious avoidance of outside influences. The Bali Aga village are shut off by a solid wall surrounding the entire village.

The lake, Danau Batur, is the largest crater lake on the island of Bali and is a good source of fish. We went the eastern lake side to a small fisher village called Trunyan and the nearby cemetery where we saw the funeral rites of Aga people. Bali Aga (mountain Balinese), a classification which refers to a conservative, pre-Hindu way of life with ancient, neolithic customs and a conscious avoidance of outside influences.

Mount Batur (Gunung Batur) is an active volcano located at the center of two concentric calderas north west of Mount Agung. The south east side of the larger 10×13 km caldera contains a caldera lake. The inner 7.5-kilometer-wide caldera, which was formed during emplacement of the Bali (or Ubud) ignimbrite, has been dated at about 23,670 and 28,500 years ago.

The Agung volcano dominates the island's eastern part with a towering height of 3,142 meters. The volcano is still active to this day. Since Bali is the most renowned area as a tourist attraction in Indonesia , naturally the Agung Volcano is probably the most-climbed volcano in the country. There are three hiking trails to reach the peak of the Agung volcano, but the most commonly used is the one going from the Besakih temple. On 18th of February 1963, local residents heard loud explosions and saw clouds rising from the crater of Mount Agung. On 24th of February, lava began flowing down the northern slope of the mountain, eventually traveling 7 km in the next 20 days. On 17th of March, the volcano erupted, sending debris 8 – 10 km into the air and generating massive pyroclastic flows. These flows devastated numerous villages, killing approximately 1500 people. Cold lahars caused by heavy rainfall after the eruption killed an additional 200. A second eruption on 16th of May led to pyroclastic flows which killed another 200 inhabitants. The magma flow from the eruption of Mount Agung also pressed the former from Japanese Navy torpeded US ship Liberty back into the sea where it presently rests at a depth of 3 to 29 meters. It was my first destination on Bali for two dives.

There aren't any active volcanos in Mongolia but the landscape we went shows many craters and inactive volcanos.

Many kilometers around the Hekla volcano can only see lava fields. One magma stream from an Hekla eruption was as long as 170 km.