Day 01. Surabaya (airport/hotel) – Cemara Lawang

We pick you up at your hotel or at the airport in Surabaya (Juanda Airport). We need around 4 hours to get to the village Cemara Lawang. We overnight in the Bromo area, where you can stay in a hotel overlooking the landscape and volcano Bromo.

Day 02. Mt. Bromo Sunrise Tour – Ijen

You will be waken up at 03.00 o'clock in the morning, have a cup of coffee or tea before we leave for a short drive - 3 kilometres only - to Pananjakan. The last 1.5 kilometres you walk to the highest viewpoint in the area to see the sun rise. But, of course, whether you are able to see the sunrise depends on the weather conditions. Then we will descend to the Sand Sea to see the crater of mount Bromo. Afterwards we go back to the hotel to have breakfast. After that we continue our trip and drive in around 4 hours to the Ijen area via Pasir Putih Beach, where we have lunch at a beach side restaurant. Here after, we drive for another 3 hours before we arrive at the village Sempol (Ijen area) to pass the night. Before the night falls, you have time to explore the surroundings.  There is, among others, a hot spring with sulphur, an area where coffee seedlings are grown and taken care of, a shed where the animal luwak is housed and a waterfall. Or, if you are tired you can spent some leisure time in the hotel of your choice.

Day 03. Ijen trekking – Sukamade

At 05.00 o'clock in the morning you have breakfast with coffee or tea before we depart with our 4WD vehicle to Paltuding. We drive through the plantation and rainforest for about 1 hour. Paltuding is the point from where you start trekking to mount Ijen. It takes about an hour trekking - about 3 kilometres - to the top. On the edge of the crater you can enjoy a scenic panorama at Ijen crater lake. Besides, you can see a lot of sulphur miners with a load of arround 80 kilograms on their shoulders walking up the rim and down the slopes of the mountain. After you enjoyed the Ijen crater lake, we drive through Pesanggaran to the protected Sukamade turtle beach, an unspoiled three kilomtres of white sandy beaches on the Indian Ocean. While driving, we pass the extensive and famous plantations of East Java and the maountain rage of the Meru Betiri National Park. After we've arrived you still have time to visit the village near Sukamade beach, where you can witness local people making brown sugar. In the evening you will be guided by a ranger to find sea turtles that come ashore to lay their eggs.