The summit ridge, the jeeps on the flank road, the marker in the black sand and the caldera going from dark to gold. Photographs from the mornings these departures run.
Every photograph here was taken on or beside the mountain these mount batur sunrise hike tour departures climb — the summit and crater rim, the viewpoint above Penelokan, and the lava field the 4WDs cross.
What each of these looks like from the inside is on the experience page, and the numbers behind the landscape — the double caldera, the eruptions, the geopark — are on facts and figures.
A walker on the Mount Batur summit ridge at sunrise, above a sea of cloud with Mount Agung on the horizonThe Mount Batur summit ridge from the air, with a line of walkers strung along the path above the cloudDawn light fanning across the sky above Lake Batur, seen from the crater rimA hiker resting on the Mount Batur crater rim with Agung and Abang rising through the cloudThe Batur 1717 m shrine marker near the summit, with a long-tailed macaque sitting on top of itThe painted Batur 1717 M sign held up over black volcanic sand at the topJeeps parked before dawn at the Mount Batur viewpoint, with village lights and fishing boats on Lake Batur belowA blue 4WD jeep on the Mount Batur track as the sun comes up behind the ridgeA line of jeeps climbing the narrow forest track towards Mount Batur with the sun through the treesTwo travellers silhouetted on a jeep roof at dawn, with other jeeps drawn up along the viewpointThree friends sitting on a jeep roof with their arms raised as the sun clears the ridge above Lake BaturA traveller standing on a jeep roof rack with arms out, looking across the Batur caldera at first lightA couple on the bonnet of a red jeep against an orange and purple dawn over the calderaTwo travellers on a jeep bonnet under the stars before dawn, a torch beam pointing at the Mount Batur coneA traveller on a jeep roof making a heart shape against the sunset over the Batur caldera
See it with your own eyes
A photograph of a sunrise is a photograph. Standing on the rim at six in the morning is not the same thing.
