Mount Bromo - East Java

Mount Bromo (from Sanskrit / Old Javanese: Brahma, one of the main Hindu gods), the volcano is still active and most famous as a tourist attraction in East Java. As a tourist attraction, Mount Bromo become attractive because of its status as the volcano is still active.

Bromo has a height of 2392 meters above sea level is located in four regions, namely Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Lumajang, and Malang. Mount Bromo mesh body shape between valleys and canyons with the caldera or the sea of sand covering some 10 square kilometers.

Mount Bromo (Indonesian: Gunung Bromo), an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif, East Java, Indonesia. At 2329 meters (7641 feet) the highest peak that is not massive, but is most famous. Massif area is one of the most visited tourist attractions in East Java, Indonesia. Volcanoes of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.

Mount Bromo has a crater with a diameter of ± 800 feet (north-south) and ± 600 meters (east-west). While the danger area of a circle with a radius of 4 km from the central crater of Bromo.

Mount Bromo in the midst of vast plains called Sea of Sand (Indonesian: Ocean Sand), a protected nature reserve since 1919. Typical way to visit Mount Bromo from the mountain village near Cemoro Lawang. From there it is possible to walk to the volcano in about 45 minutes, but it is also possible to take an organized jeep tour, which includes stops at the point of view on Mount Penanjakan (2770 meters) (Indonesian: Gunung Penanjakan). The best views of Mount Bromo to the Sea of Sand below and surrounding the volcano at sunrise. Viewpoint on Mount Penanjakan can also be reached on foot in about two hours. From inside the caldera, the sulfur is collected by the workers.

On the fourteenth day of the Hindu festival Yadnya Kasada, Tenggerese Probolinggo, East Java, a trip to the mountain to make offerings of fruit, rice, vegetables, flowers and animal sacrifices to the gods of the mountain by throwing them into the caldera of a volcano. The origin of the ritual lies in the legends of the 15th century in which a princess named Roro Anteng start principality Tengger with her husband Joko Seger. The couple have children and therefore pleaded for help of the gods of the mountain. The gods gave them 24 children, but determined that 25 children, named Kesuma, should be thrown into the volcano as a human sacrifice. Request for god 'implemented. The tradition of throwing offerings to the volcano to appease the gods of ancient continues today. Although full of danger, the risk of some local residents up and down into the crater in an attempt to collect the goods sacrificed to defend their families.