06/04/2018
Jero Wijaya Tourist Information: started from Mt Batur Sunrise Volcanic Exploration, Bali adventure tours and nine islands-islets on three weeks tour package.
Address: LAGUNA HOSTEL Jalan Pendakian Gunung Batur Toya Bungkah Kintamani Bangli Bali Indonesia
Hallow everyone; it’s my pleasure to introduce this dramatic caldera and its formations which collapsed from the strato-volcano at the intercontinental world volcanism’s network to the volcanic exploration seekers. One of my excellence working experiences is 1000s of exploration to this volcano since 1987 caused of my job was a current mountain guide. After working for numbers of hiking, trekking and climbing in the last decades, I started in building Tourist Information Centre: online hotel reservation and numerous tour destinations to complete all tour packages. Mt Batur has a fruitful of volcanic traces; literatures from the world geological scientists, skill based on tour experience and reading several of ecological books, we should discuss before they can join the exiting volcanic exploration particularly Batur volcano.
Hence, overland adventures to the multiple islands and islets in the southeast islands are the new advanced distinguished tourist destination. Unless geographical acknowledgement and cultural education to the most Indonesian archipelagos are being on preparation scientifically. Islets excursion is also available with our travel networks on B2B partnerships. I am sure you are familiar with our assistance in order to explore the entire places on the archipelagos and, great journey experience. After involving deeply in various tour destinations, I started to elaborate my knowledge into the commercial tours not only to the Indonesian archipelagos but expanded to the Asian adventurous destination. Awesome destination to Java-Bali; visiting temples, volcanoes and current Javanese Kingdom heritages. Numerous Bali adventures were also built up since years ago during tourist business competition was unequally managed in Bali.
Single organizer to Mt Batur Volcanic exploration and offering the largest adventurous trip to the lava fields due to the volcanic molten rocks are fantastic; volcanic metamorphic rocks underwent hard molten rocks lava is fantastically beautiful stunning for rocky trekking. This tour packages goes through: sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous and andesitic rocks; its non-trodden volcanic territorial such a great moonlike adventurous shingles and sediments. Night lodge in Toya Bungkah for Mt Batur sunrise package is a brilliant optional idea to dismiss: night driving, lack lavatory service and behavioral hassles.
The temperature on the top of Mount Batur in the morning frequently occurred between 0-15 F, and freezing, you are advised to take extra warm cloths and trekking shoes with you in order to anticipate freezing from cold weather. Solution: natural Hot Spring healing bath before hiking up to the top due to warm your body up and, you will feel healthy and it’s your brilliant option. Hot Spring outlets are widespread from lava caves near the feet of the mountain slopes, the Hot Spring bubbles up from about 21-80 F from the volcanic tubes.
Optional tour offers: hilly hiking, climbing mountains and various eco-forestry trekking which have been in our tour activities since 30 years to the present, today is also available. It's clearly notified every change of landscapes have different panoramic values. Visiting the volcanic eruption traces: Stromboli molten lava, parasitic cones, cinder cones and volcanic molten lava fields is great adventurous experience; it is my pleasure to show these places to my valued guests. Visitors, both local & international are visiting this place in regular trips; they are coming for Mt Batur sunrise with simple experience tour makers and tents o be oriented deeply in financial subject only. Another optional trekking is the caldera trekking, stunning mini-canyon including Lake Batur, Ocean shore and Mountains; wide range of volcanic landscapes are colorfully beautiful.
From 155 active volcanisms in Indonesia, twenty of them are still active in Java and Bali, these two neighboring islands are volcanically active, in Bali the classical shaped Mt. Agung and the dramatic shaped Batur Caldera the finest and the most beautiful Caldera in the world (Van Bemmelen 1970, in the centre of this caldera, raised up Mt Batur 1717m, the active volcanic cones naval is the centre of the double concentric caldera. The southeast of the outer 10×13 km caldera existed Lake Batur 16 km2. The inner 7.5-kilometer-wide caldera formed during the emplacement of the south Bali lahar-ignimbrite or igneous lava has been dated at about 23,670 and 28,500 years ago to the Southwest around Tanah Lot.
Earlier eruption at Mt. Batur main crater was dated in 1804 and 1849; parasitic craters also formed within time and have been frequently active, in 1974 to the last two eruptions 1999 and 2000. The hard molten rock lava field from Mt. Batur to the lake in the 1849 is extremely beautiful, volcanic molten rocks lava fields had been destroyed the part of lake bed and caused deep lakeside on the edge of molten rock edges. Pray Eat and Love movie by Julia Robert was created in this place in the Enjung Singa (Lion Cave). Another side, the molten rock lava field from 1968 is still viewable today from the western mouth of the caldera rim. Interestingly I am an eyewitness to the 1974 eruption; I was watching it from a very close viewpoint. The Western part of the caldera rim has various spectacular views of the lava fields and green territorial of agriculture; this lava field emitted and flowed out from the reason craters. Here is also an area of sandy and shingles on the volcanic debris where you can join the motor-cross and ATV trip on the lava fields and the volcanic sediments and cinder cones.
The southern part of the inner caldera on the the molten rock lava fields are interesting to visit for pre-wedding event. Numerous volcanic evident including lava tubes, cinder cones, black molten rock lava field are the colors of the geographic zones where the lake and the volcano situated adjacently. This photographic volcanic caldera is situated with Mt. Abang, Mt. and Lake Batur which is the largest lake over 16km2 size and 91m deep, it is ichthyologic great place for native and migrated fish species, present case is the lake water pollution with thick sediments and chemical of agricultural activities.
The vicinities in the caldera are widespread of agricultural complexes. Lake water characters comprised of three stratification types: epi-limnion above, meta-limnion in between and Hipho-limnion bellow on the lake bed. Lake water stratification are frequently described such several characters and serious attention to introduce its condition. Analyzers said, scientific research has been made, the measurement of the water quality through biological and non-biological pollution. The result, systematic sampling is made at the lake water quality. They noted, data are analyzed by ecological statistic and its result is comparative to the standard. Another water quality viewpoint is that the pollution of the lake water is generally in four categories such as pathogen caused by bacteria and Protozoa, Toxic caused by the industrial west and agricultural chemical evaporation, eutrophication caused by nutrient-rich and causes the shallowness of the lake bed and the deoxygenating.
Sedimentation from the flowed volcanic materials is increasing significantly at the lake bed. In fact natural landslides are often occurring in the wet season along the caldera slopes, this phenomenon practically causes lake bed raising up and water volume gradually increasing due to the mud’s development is constantly accumulated downward the lake bed. Numbers of feasibility studies are present several moments.
Natural sources of sedimentation; volcanic activity often causes various types of landslides, chemical west (pesticide) unless. Meanwhile, decontamination process from the environmental cares seriously on demands in the present time. In some part of the mined sediments; the traces of the digging mines still providing evident of the volcanic stratification which brings you to the geological educational guidelines. Stratifications introducing when it built and how the volcano was built, flowed and emitted the sediment causes the land building from the eruption influence.
Cinder cone is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, cinders, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around the volcanic extended zones. They comprised of loose pyroclastic debris formed by explosive eruptions or lava fountains, typically cylindrical, vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as cinders, clinkers, or scoria around the vent to form a cone that often is beautifully symmetric.
Most scattered cinder cones nearby have beautiful shaped craters at the summit. The cinder cones often confuse lack volcanic skilled involver in recognition. For the cinder-cones analysis, scientists are coexisted in pragmatic analysis, one to another assumed on different measurements. Effects, the size and shape of cinder cone depend on the volume of the volcanic debris sedimentation such different gravity and atmospheric pressure might change the dispersion of ejected debris and particles. It takes years to grow for scrubs and grasses around because the sedimentation of volcanic debris is developed. Lichen and Idle wise are both earlier species could grow followed by glecinium, vaccinium and rhododendron. Batur is encircled by widespread of cinder cones in the northeast and northwest.
Most economic sources are agricultures from the volcanic fertile black top soils particularly on crops. Over 90 percent of the inhabitancies live from agricultural industries, dissimilar to the house production system in some countries in the world, they take the harvested products from the agricultural husbandry and, merchandise to the local markets in Bali, Java and so forth. Solo business management is commonly occur, this is why they want to get enough profits for themselves and, caused their business in self management. Tourism industries exists bellow 5 percent. Unfortunately, unmanageable business occurring and over-expectation; this case often brings them to the negative benefit volumes. Gambles are common men’s behavioral hobby. Interestingly, ordinary attitude and behavior considering to the community’s activities; morning for daily house works, while in the afternoon for gambles.
Balinese coffee can famous the world over, its delicate aromatic drink and still important export commodity from the mountainous Bali’s areas, other crops: onion, chili, and to mato have also stepped up since decades; new vegetations are under intensive cultivation to supply consumption demands. Single fisheries are also part of the economic support. Further on the lateral of the caldera rim, orange and mandarins plantation are prospectively gainful development. Agricultural industry is dominated by autochthonous crops such as corn, sweet potatoes etc. Rice is unable grown due to the volcanic-sediments; volcanic ashes are not liable for rice field terrace.
Volcanic lava fields and black top soils (dystrandept) mining inside the Batur Caldera valley is a practical local business; this mining to extract sands from the sediments unless pumice and igneous rock are also extracted. The 1963 eruption has produced millions of cubic meters of volcanic debris, sands and ash emitted with pyroclastic eruption from the parasitic cones.
Village settlements are randomly localized from current communities where people live with their own families. The geospatial modeling settlements in this villages are commonly tolerance, they have cooperated one with another in village’s tradition and, collectively acceptable concepts. The village settlement, population ranging from thousands, remained in old tradition. When someone gets sick, the other members of the villages are involved in gatherings themselves for helps. Still alike to the past, villages built their societies for their own communities to accommodate the subsistence and other demands. They have not been eclipsed in importance responsibility such uniting human society and settlement to cooperate themselves.
Balinese belief and culture started when Hinduism was brought from India to Indonesia about 2000 year ago and collaborated with Indonesian Hindus became powerful of Hinduism and Buddhism before the Islam missionaries took over Indonesia religiously. Bali was influenced by the Javanese Culture that is still occurring. Hindu Kingdoms in West, Central and East Java had their great influence to Bali around 400 AD, after the time Islam came into the Hindu Kingdom in Java and Japanese Hindu underwent lost in power, since time, a number of priests migrated to Bali such the missionaries of Hindu refugees. Artists and their followers refused the new religion and escaped to Bali.
They blended their belief and a tradition with the original people, a blend of which is inherited by the present Balinese cunture, the rich culture which is instead of the scenic beauty of the island, has attracted more visitors constantly. Their stronghold religion and traditions may be the prime factor to enable them to preserve their culture from the overseas influences. Balinese peoples today are still adopted Javanese cultures especially languages from old Javanese literatures, Kawi and Sanskrit are still useful. Most old Balinese though they are descended from Javanese migration they don’t recognize the language used today which is dominantly coming from outside.
C**kfight performance is popular Balinese behavioral gamble from current and present, communities frequently settled this game when temple ceremonies, cremation and other rituals. Balinese communities are performed c**kfights even though it is opposed to the religiosity guidance, gambling addiction can eradicate all tradition, and c**kfighting is used to be in the ritual procession to succeed the ritual darkened perspective, but it is confused , the more ceremony performed in some places the more games are happening in the communities networks. This game is forbidden by the national law, but all regulation system can be eradicated after happiness on the ill-advised behavior is conspired.
Current periods, tradition of sprinkling chicken blood when ritual or building construction starts means to purify the areal and avoid from the evil spirits, this game is religiously allowed only a game in an event. When human addiction is increasing, chicken blood sprinkle or c**kfighting was reformed to be extended gambling stages tens of years ago and provided by the most villages in argument of financial collection on lack knowledge of theological developments even though is not allowed, this can confuse the religious devotees.
A negative system of c**kfight game is one of their ways to overpower another; toxic oil is also a practical technical power to create faster killing one to another, sharp sword or knife with toxin can very fast. Widespread of c**kfights and other gambling preparation are often running out of control, money can empower the ill-mannered involvers; money can close your eyes, you can do whatever you want if you have money. Law enforcers are not clearly brain and prospective regarding anti-gambling regulation. The fighting stages often use village’s community hall of meeting (Balai Masyarakat). C**kfighting liked over 80 percent of the Balinese men in order to equalize their wishes, both official and individual could be seen collaborated amongst the c**kfight shows.
C**k cages are seen almost in every houses, the head of the Balinese families are patrimonial, if temple ceremony is happened, c**kfighting game takes place nearby and every family has to provide at least one c**k (Uuran) for fighting as the member of the community participation to the success of the ceremony if not local sanction will be charged. Other side of Balinese village’s women is on their task in preparing the ritual offerings. In some places, kids are participating in the traditional gambling in the lower place of the temple areal, this kind of card and domino gambling which are provided by individual gamble organizers which liked by kids, that is why Balinese peoples are mostly gamblers because they learn to gamble since they are little kids.
C**k’s testimony and power equality negotiation: Balinese c**ks are good enough to fight; the fight needs longer. Since fighting tool is increased time to time cross-island and even overseas c**kfighting candidate are imported, after Balinese chock eliminated little by little, overseas C**k ( ayam Bangkok) get in**ed decades ago to select fighting candidates. After Ayam Bangkok decreased, they imported overseas c**k such Philippines C**ks and Land-sea c**ks. The last session of c**k fighters imported to Bali came from Kalimantan; Kalimantan peoples are also coming for c**kfighting in big financial game.
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