Bandung - Climbing Tangkuban Perahu

"The picture on the front is of the volcano I climbed today. I caught the minibus to Lembang (700 rp for a 20 km trip!) and then walked to the crater. The first section was on hot roads and open cart tracks, but some clouds came over and the track moved into rain forest, fortunately. I spent some time watching some monkeys in the treetops, then climbed up to the crater (reachable by car, unfortunately) and walked around it (which no one else was doing - Indonesians aren't great walkers). I was lucky it was a weekday - most of the stalls selling things were closed and there weren't that many people there. Then I walked back the way I came.

18 km and 1 km of climbing have left me satisfied that I am in reasonable shape physically. (Though it looks like some of the mountains I want to climb will involve continuous 2000m ridge ascents! (Ed: my apologies if that is not correct - this is how it appears to be! :-) ) It's one thing to read "3600m" as a point height on a 1:650000 map - it's another to actually see kilometers of 20m contour lines on a 1:50000 map...) It's 8:30 pm now - I think I'll go grab a snack before going to bed. No, I won't, my legs don't feel like it, so I'm eating here. Cheers, Danny.