Surabaya-Probolinggo-Mt. Bromo

The nighttrain left Jakarta at 6 pm, and while waiting for it we saw other trains passing, and we were so glad we had tickets on bisnisclass and not economy.. Some of the trains that passed us were so full people were hanging out the doors.. On one train, even the roof was full, on all of the carriages.. So things are a little different here from Malaysia and Thailand, it is much poorer and things work different.. Like with the ferry, we stayed alone in a 6 bed room, but every hall and stairway was covered with people.. So people are poorer, the country is poorer, and everything takes time..
Same with the nighttrain(the ferry was 5 hours late), it took 11 hoursfrom Jakarta to Surabaya, there we changed trainstation and got tickets to Probolinggo and from there to Bromo, bought it all in one, and it was a scam, but not the worst..Someone picked us up at the station in Probolinggo and drove us to a tourist agency, and he tried every trick in the book to sell us acommodation and tours and tickets back and everything, but we didn't buy anything and finally he stopped and let us go.. We still had to wait 1 hour for the minibus to fill up, when 27 people were inside, outside and on the roof of the car, the driver started, hehehe! It took us 1 1/2 hours to get to Cemon Lewang, a small village right on the craterwall(?) of a vulcano... We saw the sunset from the crater of Mt. Bromo, and active vulcano, the first we have ever seen, and the smell is horrible! Like geysirs on Iceland! (Lukter skikkelig svovel, svir helt ned i lungene!!)
These mountains are about 2770 meters above sealevel, so it was really cold, and even with sleepingbags and wollensweater I frose the entire night. Didn't sleep too much anyways, we got up at 4 am to go to a viewpoint to see the sunset and another vulcano, and we just made it, ten minutes past 5 the sun rose and the view was fantastic! Pictures coming on flickr any day now:)
We went back after a while of intense photographing;) and had a lousy breakfast at the hotel, before we left Mt. Bromo.. Which is another long story, coming right up:)
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