Wonderful Indonesia’s wonderfully-unlikely description refers to Tangbukan Perahu.
This post’s title is quoted from that volcano’s Wonderful Indonesia webpage.
Tangbukan Perahu is just one of Indonesia’s many active volcanoes, but this one is uniquely accessible.
A sealed road allows cars and buses to drive almost all the way up, to within a few easy walking paces of the main crater’s rim.
Tangbukan Perahu rises more than 2000 metres above sea level.
It dominates the local countryside – countryside which it has in large part shaped and fertilised.
Tangbukan Perahu has also, intermittently, delivered terror and death.
Almost certainly Indonesia’s most “touristic” volcano, Tangbukan Perahu is within day-tripping distance of Jakarta, and within easier, half-day-tripping distance of the very attractive city of Bandung.
Bandung’s CBD is not much more than 30 kilometres distant from my photo’s vantage point.
Indonesia has more volcanoes than any other nation; circa 130 of them are active.
Java has 45 active volcanoes; the most recent of Tangbukan Perahu‘s many “significant” eruptions occurred in 2019.
Eventually, a multiple-image post will offer closer views of what was going on in its main crater on the morning of 17 October 2024.
(photo is copyright Doug Spencer. It looks down and across from the main crater’s rim. My vantage point – a little more than 2000 metres ASL – was circa one minute’s walk from where “our” vehicle was parked)
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