Mount Rinjani - Day 1 Crater Sembalun (2639m)

Selamat Pagi.

After a good sleep we are ready to conquer Mount Rinjani. We repacked our luggage and those not necessary items were packed and passed to our tour agent. They would bring our extra luggage and meet us again after 3days. All of us have to pack light for the coming 3days hike.

After simple breakfast at the hotel, we departed around 8am. Don't be surprise that our starting point is our hotel! Target today is to hike from Sembalun Agro Villa and Restaurant until our camp site of first night - Crater Sembalun.

From our villa, we walked through farms, towards our destination :)

One step closer :)

We spent around 3hrs to reach pos 2. It is time for lunch and our porters set up a temporary tent to cook for us.

Chill time while waiting lunch to be served :)

There are 3 types of hiking package. Food is different of course and the next significant point is the tent! Type 1 is luxury where you get to dine in a tent with chairs and tables. Type 2 is standard so you dine on a carpet put on the land and there is toilet tent at the camp site! Type 3 is budget one where toilet tent is not provided at the tent site!

Haha, we go for type 2 actually, toilet tent is just too important!

We are amazed by lunch prepared by our porters. With limited utensils and ingredients, our lunch is better than mixed rice we had in normal days LOL.

After lunch and some rest, we continued our way.

After some tough time, we are way too excited when we finally reached our tent site for first night at around 430pm! 

Tent site for first night at Crater Sembalun, 2639m above sea level.

Our toilet tent >.< This should be one of the toilet with best view in this world :P 

Overlooking Mount Rinjani's peak from our tent :)

Thanks for the food!!

Our porters actually arrived at our tent site way earlier than us. The moment we reached there, our tent was ready! Tea time as well!!!!

Feel superb to great by hot tea, fried banana and even popcorn! The weather is cool in the evening, felt so warm when the food was served :)

After some rest time and photo-shooting time, dinner was ready! Quite early since we had to rest early for next early morning hike! Dinner was curry with chicken and vegetables served with rice, pampering session after a tough day :P

Ok, that's all for our first day hike! Next post we are going to share about our story of conquering Mount Rinjani!!!