"So we do a sunrise tour where we pick you up at midnight..."
Needless to say we didn't go to Mount Bromo for sunrise. With the benefit of hindsight I think we made a very wise decision. The whole Bromo experience was fairly inhospitable - a climb at altitude whilst the wind sticks sand to you, doing that in the dark after no sleep would have left me grumpy for days.
Bromo was pretty impressive. I've been to a few volcanos but don't remember any of them being that loud. It sounded as though someone was doing a helicopter tour inside.
Turns out Bromo is a holy site (unsurprising, given its power), so there are people with bananas and flowers as offerings. There were also people with pot noodles - I ate one and didn't share any with the volcano. Do volcanos even like pot noodles? Maybe I should have asked...
In Malang now. It's a student city in East Java and there doesn't appear to be a whole heap to do here. You can barely even buy beer. You can buy owls from the bird market, which I guess is a thing. Not sure what I'd do with an owl.
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