testmeat photoblog

my primary reason for going to malang was to visit bromo tengger semeru national park which is famous for the volcanoes held within. the most popular trip there is a sunrise excursion, although it's also possible to organise a sunset excursion, so not wanting to miss out i opted to do both. the sunset one started at midday when i travelled in an incredibly bumpy jeep with the girls i'd met in yogyakarta. i'd just started to learn the weather patterns in this part of the island, and it seemed similar to alishan in taiwan where the morning is fairly clear and dry before the rains come in the afternoon. which goes some way in explaining why the sunrise trip is far more popular than the sunset one. fortunately the rain wasn't so strong when we made to our first stop inside the park, an area called the savannah, in fact it created fog and brooding clouds which combined with the golden grassland to create a mystical effect

here's another shot from the road which cuts through the savannah