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Mt. Rinjani: 2005
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Indonesia (Lombok) |
Tour / Mountain: |
Mt. Rinjani |
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Lombok |
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Time: |
3 days |
| Supply: |
selfsufficient |
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| Difficulties: |
Only little water and cold nights on the crater rim, long ascent
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| Rating: |
Nice but hard trip |
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 Mt. Rinjani trekking tour (Lombok):
One of the highlights of Lombok is a trekking tour in the Mt. Rinjani
nationalpark. The volcanoe Mt. Rinjani, with its 3700m is the second
highest mountain in Indonesia, and is best expolred on a 3 days 2
nights trekking tour. While most of the tourist climb the mountain
on a arranged tour, we did it on our own. On the first day, we climbed
to the first rim at 2645m. Iīve already been quite often in the mountains,
but I never had an ascent of 2200m in one day, and so I was quite
surprised, how easy it was. The last water source was a small puddle
(during the rain season a small creek) on 2000m, so we had to carry
our water to the rim. During sunset, the view of Mt. Rinjani, and
the crater lake was amazing. After sunset we tried to warm up with
some other tourists around a small fire, before we went into our sleepingbags.
On the second day, we descended to the lake and planned to stay there
for the second night. But there was so much rubbish around the lake,
that we took just a small bath in a thermal spring, before we returned
back to the rim. Our second night was pretty cold; it was freezing!!!
Already during the descend to the crater lake, Nadines knee started
to ache, so we didnīt climb Mt. Rinjani and went back into the valley
on the third day. |
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 Cooking adventures: We had not enough space
in our rucksacks to take our stove with us, and so we had to cook
on a fire. Even if its more romantic to cook on a real fire, we didnīt
fell in love with it. Our fire was smoking quite a lot because we
had just some small wet peaces of wood and we and our clothes smelled
very smoky afterward. Although we just made a noodlesoup our pot was
completly black and it took Nadine neraly 30 minutes to clean it. |
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 Hot Springs (Mt. Rinjani): The area
around the original hot springs is used from some locals for living
and so it looked like a big dump. Thatīs why all the guides tell their
tourists, that the water is much too hot there and the best spot is
further down the hot river. But some other guests thought, that the
tourist pool is a toilet and so it was a real unforgettable experience,
to bath in the pool with some decent smell of excrements in the air. |
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 Porters: All the tourist tours a acompanied
by a tourguide and a porter. While the tour guide is carrying the
resposibility, the porter has to carry the tent, kitchen gear, the
food and of curse all the water (tourist donīt drink water from a
puddle). Quite a lot of stuff for 4 persons (2 tourists + guide +
porter). For us it was always amazing to see what the porters were
carrying to the top of the mountain: several pinnapples, a whole bundle
of bananas, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, chips, cookies, chicken wings
or even living chicken (on the left side of the porter). But instead
of carrying everything in a rucksack, they arraged everything to bundles
and fixed it to a bamboo stick (the normal way of transporting things
in Souteast Asia). How the porters managed to carry everything over
the steep paths with even some climbing sections is still a miracle
for us. The best of all is, that they managed to carry their heavy
load (much more than 40 Kg) in an altitude of 2500m while wearing
flip-flops instead of propper shoes!!! |
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