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Witnessing the Most Beautiful Sunrise at the Eastern Java
Mount Bromo is the ultimate sunrise trip to go to with your family and friends, these insights can be your trip ideas during holiday!
Bromo has a magnificent landscape, added with the unique culture of Tengger Tribe that still preserve a sacred ceremony, like Yadnya Kasada, a prayer for the ancient Gods with holy water Tirto Aji taken from a holy fountain in a sacred cave with the hope of prosperous and fertile future. This ceremony held every year on the 14th day of month Kasada, refers to the Hindu Tengger calendar. By attending this ceremony, it can be a lifetime experience to dive into the Hindu Tengger culture.
Yet, the most popular activity among travellers who travel to Mount Bromo is to witness the first light there, this can be done almost all-year-round as long as the weather is friendly. We will give you some ideas for the trip to Bromo Sunrise. From Surabaya city centre to Bromo Desert is about 2.5 hours driving for around 130 kilometres, and if you are travelling from Malang, it will take around 1 hour and 45 minutes driving for around 50 kilometres.
Usually, an organised tour will pick you up in your accommodation at dawn and bring you to the sunrise point. There are several sunrise points to see the sunrise in Bromo, one of them is Pananjakan. After seeing the sunrise there, the tour lead will set the group off to the point where we should climb the stairs to look over the Bromo Crater, then after having pictures taken or just enjoying the magnificent view, the group will stop by the Pura Luhur Poten temple on the way back from the crater. Next stop will be the savanna that locals usually called 'Teletubbies' Hills because of the resemblance to hills in the popular kids television show. Last but not least, the group will stop by the well-known sand desert in Bromo that is usually called as Pasir Berbisik ('Whispering Sand').
We can opt for many choices of rides there that are offered for tourists and travellers for enjoying the vast sand desert around the crater, there are trail motorcycles, off-road jeep, and horses. If you are joining a tour package, it will cost around 350 thousand rupiah per person for an open trip, and for a private trip it will cost around 1,600 thousand rupiah per group per trip.
In addition to that, Plataran Bromo, as one of the luxury accommodations in Bromo, has special activities to offer you while staying there, it is Sacred Bromo trip, an encounter that will take you to another dimension of Bromo and witnessing the sunset at the Bromo savanna.
Yet, the most popular activity among travellers who travel to Mount Bromo is to witness the first light there, this can be done almost all-year-round as long as the weather is friendly. We will give you some ideas for the trip to Bromo Sunrise. From Surabaya city centre to Bromo Desert is about 2.5 hours driving for around 130 kilometres, and if you are travelling from Malang, it will take around 1 hour and 45 minutes driving for around 50 kilometres.
Usually, an organised tour will pick you up in your accommodation at dawn and bring you to the sunrise point. There are several sunrise points to see the sunrise in Bromo, one of them is Pananjakan. After seeing the sunrise there, the tour lead will set the group off to the point where we should climb the stairs to look over the Bromo Crater, then after having pictures taken or just enjoying the magnificent view, the group will stop by the Pura Luhur Poten temple on the way back from the crater. Next stop will be the savanna that locals usually called 'Teletubbies' Hills because of the resemblance to hills in the popular kids television show. Last but not least, the group will stop by the well-known sand desert in Bromo that is usually called as Pasir Berbisik ('Whispering Sand').
We can opt for many choices of rides there that are offered for tourists and travellers for enjoying the vast sand desert around the crater, there are trail motorcycles, off-road jeep, and horses. If you are joining a tour package, it will cost around 350 thousand rupiah per person for an open trip, and for a private trip it will cost around 1,600 thousand rupiah per group per trip.
In addition to that, Plataran Bromo, as one of the luxury accommodations in Bromo, has special activities to offer you while staying there, it is Sacred Bromo trip, an encounter that will take you to another dimension of Bromo and witnessing the sunset at the Bromo savanna.