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Since mid-day yesterday, even before we set foot in Ngadas village, heavy rain, strong winds and fog have been here to greet us. The trees seem like black shadows wreathed in white fog, as do the terraced rice fields on either side of the village road.
“When the weather is clear, the view here is magnificent,” says Purnawan, a lecturer and researcher on the Tengger community, who is accompanying us to Ngadas.
Our destination is Segara Wedi Anakan – the upper “sea of sand” – located to the south of and–next to Bromo’s crater. Until recently, most people only knew about the sea of sand below Mount Bromo. Ngadas (2,140 meters above sea level), the highest inhabited village in Java and located within Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, is our base camp.
This very morning, we canceled our plan to see the sunrise over Bromo from the south, because of the relentless rain and fog. Our plan to find Segara Wedi Anakan also seems rather uncertain Read the rest of this entry »