Mount Merapi

So we went to Mount Merapi after half a days worth of being a construction worker. Its about 2 hours of bumpy road from Jogja to the most active volcano in the world. With a driver that keeps our mpv in the middle of a two way lane most of the time, the ride was the least to say, very adventurous.



its a straight road to Mount Merapi and locals and tourist would stop at the nearby towns to have a meal and enjoy the great view. (yes archi students...the axis is pretty obvious)



Mount Merapi is one of the world's most dangerous and active volcanoes. Its still spewing out smoke and when the weather clears up we can see it from our hotel rooms very clearly.

makes me feel very insignificant.



I look damn pasty



there are alot of towns that live near the volcano despite the dangers, mainly because the land is so fertile (thats alluvium for you geog students), its really peaceful here and the sunset is amazing! Wonderful colours.

later that night we had dinner at a restaurant along the road back from Mount Merapi. It had some man made pool for customers to ride bamboo rafts on, quite fun actually. oh and the food rocked...crispy fried small fish and some unagi like bbq fish very nice...





two days later, after we heard Mount Merapi experienced a landslide we headed to a hilly area called Ketap pass where the locals go to get a good view of the mountain.

but it had to rain that day so the entire area fogged up real bad. a 2 hours ride there and all we did was pose for funnies, like this one of Ngai Keong our senior taking a picture of the missing Mount Merapi.



Huilian and Tiff posing in the fog ala sleepy hollow without the Johnny Depp.