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If  I tell you whether I am a proud citizen of this country or not, I will be honest. I am. Well, despite of some disturbing facts that people might hear outside this country such as the hardcore Islamic line, corruption and incompetent representative on our parliament house I also can give you hundreds or thousands of reasons why I am still proud of my country.

Top of Batur is overlooking Rinjani Mountain. Spectacular

Bali is one example of nation pride, blessed with amazing natures and some of the friendliest people you could possibly think of.  Everyone who visits Bali will have their own special bonding. Thou its heavy tourist traffic might not be as interesting anymore for some traveler, but for me I would never stop loving this place.

This time, me and couple of friends also with some couchsurfer friends went for a hike to Batur. An active mountain that sits 1500 meter above sea level.  The trekk is considered easy as juvenile like me did not have that much of trouble experiencing it.  The only trouble I had is my converse shoes was apparently not comfortable enough enduring the trekk.

We started gathering together around 2 Am in the morning in Ubud. We planned to have early morning hike to witness the sheer beauty of sunrise from the top of Batur. We stopped and park our car at Toya Bungkah (approximately 2 hours from Denpasar) as the start point of this hike.  We passed several small temple and some native residentials before we actually went into the trekk. We took couple of breaks in between drinking and taking some air that felt became less and less available. As we reached the top, the trekk became really steep and we really had to be careful because of its slippery volcanic sands. After almost 3 hours of walking, we finally reached the top.  We’re lucky that we still got time to wait for the sun to rise. As the sun started rising, the spectacular views just gave this great feeling of achievement.  I suddenly forgot how my shoes were kind of bothering my walk. The views actually surprised me because the sun rose from Lombok, we stood at the mountain which overlooking Rinjani mountain, one of the best mountain to hike in Indonesia as what I heard from most mountaineer. All the tiredness and the uncomfortable had subsided.

Gunung Abang From Batur perspectives

extreme trekk back

The trekk back is rather dangerous that one of our friends were freaking out and asked our help to hold her hand throughout the trekk.  But what we got after going further down is the fantastic view of Danau Batur and Crater. My jaws almost dropped watching those beauties. We stopped by to some shelter halfway and enjoy the view of Batur in depth.

Beauty in breakdown - Batur lake

Batur is another beauty that everyone should have a visit there. Next stop? I hope it would be Rinjani. Of course it requires more preparation as well more money, but surely it is on my bucket list.

Some tips to visit Batur:

1. Bring your own torch if you do early morning hiking.

2. The tour guide cost you 10.000 rupiah if you are Indonesian and 300.000 rupiah (for 4 people)  if you are foreigner.

3.  Make sure the whether is fine, some people couldn’t see anything but haze throughout the morning

4. Use hiking shoes and bring some foods and water