Surabaya - Sunrise at Mount Bromo (Penanjakan View Point)

3am in the morning, our guide gave us a morning call by knocking on our hotel room…freaking cold @.@ After some preparation, we wrapped ourselves under thick sweaters and stepped out of the room.
Hopped onto a little jeep and started our journey to Penanjakan view point :) after around half an hour ride on the jeep, we reached the car park…spent another 45minutes hike up to the view point. The distance is nothing if compared to the cold weather, estimated temperature is less than 10°C (still consider critical for Malaysian like us lol).
Reached Penanjakan view point around 5am, 2700++m above sea level, woohoo :)
Breaking dawn… wait patiently for the sunrise. There are quite a lot of people up there, mainly because of weekend?
We had a good weather that morning. Oh, is the moon up there, not the sun, haha.
This is what we waiting for… the first ray of sunlight on the volcanoes!!



Rays of light through the clouds, amazing view :)
The sun brighten up the mountains slowly and warm up the earth.
Magnificent view of the volcanoes early in the morning.
Soft reminders:
i)                    The weather is cold, please bring along your sweater and gloves. There is sweater rental service all the way up to the view point, if you need it.
ii)                   Wear a pair of  good hiking/sport shoes.
iii)                 Bring along some snacks and water for hiking, limited stores available up there.
iv)                 Bring your lip balm to protect your lips, haha.
We left Penanjakan view point around 6.15am, hopped onto our little brown jeep again and heading to Mount Bromo!! We are going to hike up to Mount Bromo this time, not a view point anymore!!




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