Thursday, January 17, 2008

Dieng Plateau Enchantment Tour

Early morning travel to Dieng Plateau (visit Dieng Plateau) via Wonosobo passing through the beautiful countryside and vegetable plantation.









Arrive in Dieng Plateau (2090 m) enjoying the oldest Hindu temple complex in Java in elevation 6,000 feet and Si Kidang crater.









In the fourth day, we go to the highland of Dieng in Wonosobo. It's about an hour driving car.









Unfortunately we couldn't make some pictures in our journey to Candi Dieng, Telaga Warna (colorful lake), Kawah Dieng, and Lake Menjer









Dieng is a small tourist village with many guesthouses and small restaurants and shops. The Dieng Plateau was a marsh land but it has been partly drained.












Some small temple ruins can be visited and there is also a small museum showing statues, pottery etc. that have been found in this area. But most interesting is a walk through the outskirts. At the Dieng Plateau there are still many active volcanos and the vulcanism can be felt everywhere! In the south of the Bima temple you can see cooking brooks, boiling pools of mud, hot springs


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