1:30 am we leave. Trying as best we can to sleep. Around 4 am the driver will take a cigarette break in the middle of nowhere before the final climb, the dense night and the Olympic calm that reigned there gave quite unrealistic appearances to this pee break that I granted myself. Around 5 am after a more or less steep climb through the broken road and villages with a few houses and guest houses, I see in the darkness the plume of Bromo.
Arriving at a parking lot, we ask to go see down, at least I ask. We manage to understand that our driver can't because the car is not powerful enough. In addition, officially there is still a 2km security perimeter around the volcano. So we call on motorbikes who offered to take us there, for a fairly high price, we manage to negotiate 100.000 to 2, simply because it was all we had left in cash! And for lack of an ATM in the area, I persevered while leaving a little margin so as not to be completely dry either, and I really wanted to go and see more closely.
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They offered to take us there before going down but it was too expensive because it was not included in our package.
