Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park (As The Sun Rises)

Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia. Watch the sun rises. It was 05:23 am (25JAN2009). The national park is named after its two mountains, Mount Semeru (the highest on Java) and Mount Bromo (the most popular). The area around the mountain is inhabited by the Tenggerese, the only Hindus left on the island of Java. For many visitors, the sight of angular-faced, sunburned, moustachioed Tenggerese wrapped in poncho-like blankets, trotting about on ponies with craggy mountains as the backdrop more resembles Peru than Indonesia!

Watching the sun rises : 05:18 am on that cold Sunday 25th January, 2009.Yon, Dr Mala and Dr Rose

Me, Ad and Azmi (bulu man)

Our children

Amel, Ang and Dr Mama

Breathtaking view when the sun peeks through

Jeeps - only transportation mode to the top!

As the day breaks, the clouds break up too

Welcome sign - the only entrance to the tip

Our children - excited, cold and hungry

Beautiful clouds shrouding the tips of the mountains

Amel, Ang and Me (cold brrr)

As the sun peeks, the cameras clicks

Amel - at the edge of the cliff

Ang - wants to be photographed there too

The 3 musketeers - Dr Mala, Yon and Dr Rose