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Bromo Land Harmony; Nature and Indigenous People

Bromo Land Harmony; Nature and Indigenous People

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Bromo Land; Harmony between nature and indigenous people

Mount bromo is a part of mount tengger. At 2,329 m (7,641 tf) above sea level. Mount  bromo is an active somma volcano, famous for its incredible nature and unique natural phenomena. The mountain that included Tengger and the position are in the complex with several mountains. not only the natural  beauty of the landscape but also their local life, that make the tourist interested in  mount bromo.

Read also : Bromo – Ijen tour from Malang or Surabaya 2 Days

The Mountain is located in East Java offering the natural beauty of their landscape. Mount Bromo is located in a sand plain or sea of sand around 10 km, and is surrounded by several other volcanoes. Mount bromo Comes from Mount tengger, which is the largest and the highest mountain in east java. Then Mount tengger erupted and create 4 new mountains, there are mount watangan, Mount  kursi, Mount batok and Mount Bromo. From several mountains, only Mount bromo is an active volcano, and the famous one The name of mount Bromo comes from javanese language “Brahma” or the creation of hinduism.

Administratively bromo located in 4 areas, there probolinggo regency, malang regency, lumajang regency, and pasuruan regency. From 4 area, easy way to get bromo  from Probolinggo. if you guys from surabaya/ malang you can take about 2 hours to cemoro lawang Village. this is the village around bromo area. the way to the bromo area is possible if you want to walk. you will takes about 45 minutes but also you can use the jeep tour which is organized well, it will make your tour easy and not waste your time. let’s contact us and visit our tour which has been organizing trip.

The Main Thing You should Do In Bromo

Enjoy sunrise from view point

Sunrise Point only takes about  30 minutes From The parking jeep. Before the sun rises, you must have a coffee break, no need to worry. Sunrise view points have several parts, like penanjakan(The highest view point, 2.770 m), kingkong hill, and sunrise Love hill. all of the spots have a good view. You also can see the highest Mountain in east Java called Mount Semeru  from all the spots.

The sun is rising at 05.30 am and if you arrive earlier, no worry you still have a coffee/tea time before reaching the view points and enjoy the sunrise. The best month for Bromo sunrise is starting from July to August as it is summer in Indonesia.

Enjoy riding with the Jeep Bromo

If you are visiting in the high season you have to wake up early, because a lot of jeeps go up in a single road to the view point and sometimes it makes a traffic jam in the mountain. As a fact, Bromo area has been covered by 4 regencies such as Malang, Pasuruan, Probolinggo and Lumajang. All those areas where all those jeeps coming from (about 1,200 units of Jeeps in total go to the view point).

There are 4 view points such as; Love Hill, Kingkong Hill, Mt. Prau and Pananjakan Mountain. All those jeeps will park nearby of each view point as requested where you wish. But sometimes the jeep is taking a little bit far away from the spot if they are coming late and they don’t have any parking space near the view point. Consequently, you have to take a walk and it can be 100 meters or more. 

After enjoying the sunrise, head back to the jeep, time for hiking to the Bromo Crater. Bromo hiking is not too hard, you can be done around 20 minutes from the parking area. The distance is about 1.5 km, with smooth Trekking. You can ride horses or walk. you will pass through the sand plain, and also there is a temple called pura luhur poten. This is a place for hindu worship. continue hiking until you find around 250 stairs, and you are on the top of the bromo crater. The bromo crater has a unique characteristic, smoky, and  is typically smelly of sulphur. 

Read also : Sukamade Turtle Beach tour 2 Days

Camping at Bromo

You also can camp at mount bromo. Mount bromo is not identically with the sunrise but also offering sunset panoramic view. Waiting for the sunset and having a cup of coffee with the incredible landscape of Mount Bromo, Mount Batok and mount Semeru as the background of the Bromo mountain range from Prau hill will give you another experience. That would be easy for you if you prefer to take an experience by camping at Bromo, Contact us 🙂

Another side of Bromo instead of Volcano

What are the Interesting things Beside Nature?

  • Ceremony to the God, under foot of Mount Bromo

Meanwhile, the mountain and natural beauty are also offering unique attractive of cultural diversity. Tengger ethnic, the original ethnic that live around the tengger area. They are rich in culture and tradition. They annually do  ceremonies under foot of Mount bromo. It’s called Yadnya Kasada or Kasada.

This ceremony aims to give gratitude to the god, for abundant their crop production such as Fruits, Beans, Vegetables,etc. They do it from the temple (pura Luhur Poten) which is their worship, then afterward go up to the crater. they throw sacrifices into the bromo crater. They start in the middle of the night till the next Morning.  The origin of ritual life is in the 15th century legend.

In addition to the ceremony of yadnya kasada,there are also other ceremonies that the ethnic tengger do, such as karo ceremony, entas-entas ceremony, unan-unan ceremony. all the ceremonies are continuing each other.  

  • Traditional Music, and traditional dance Including the Ceremony.

Tengger society is still retaining their tradition. Various ceremonies they still do not missing their traditional dance. Such as Ujug dance, Sodoran dance, Kidung Tengger Dance, Probo Mutrim dance. Every dance has meaning

Ujug dance

This dance will be done by 2 mens, They are originally Tengger people while accompanied by Traditional music gamelan karawitan. This dance describes the Familiarity of friendship. Ujug dance will be represent in karo ceremony(Marital party.

Sodoran dance

Presented about Human being and existance. It will be presented in the Yadnya Kasada ceremony. This is only danced by 3 villages of Tengger, but all the ethnic Tengger do this ceremony.

Kidung Tengger Dance

Kidung dance describes their ancestor Figures there are Joko Seger and Roro Anteng. They are praying to the god, and want to have a child. and the Hindu God( sang Hyang Widhi) blessed them. and they are have 25, they have promised to the god that the last child(Jaya Kusuma) will be Plunging into the crater. Before that Jaya Kusuma asked every 14th month of Kasada(Tengger Calendar) the ethnic Tengger will dedicate their best result of crop plantation and plunging into the Crater. and This is the origin of Yadnya Kasada beginning.

Probo Mutrim Dance

The art of this dance is assigned of god( Sang Hyang Whidi). Probo Mutrim Dance is typical of Happy dance  so the movement is so joyous. Usually this Dance will be presented every year in a sand plain (sea of sand).

  • The Famous and Skilled agriculture

On the other hand. In the agriculture sector, the local people of Tengger Their livelihood is the farmer, 95 % they work in the field. dusty are the tourism sector. Because they are living on the slopes mount Bromo, they are famous and skilled in crop production.

Commodities that plant in the slopes of bromo are cabbage, potato, spring onion, tomato, and carrot. all the commodities will be supplied outside of java. the area of mainstay agro-tourism in East Java is Sukapura. This area has fertile soil, so it can produce the best result.

Bromo Tengger National Park is a must on your travel list if you plan to visit Indonesia and especially for East Java volcano adventure. with the diversity and harmony of Locals and the nature create something beautiful to enjoy and gain plenty experience while travelling. We wait for your visit..!

Author: ABEL
Senior Guide

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Sukamade is more than see the turtles, here what you can do..

Sukamade is more than see the turtles, here what you can do..

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Sukamade turtle beach tour is the Adventure offering Sukamade Unforgettable Experience to see the Giant Turtle. Sukamade is the sanctuary for various turtles, there are the green turtle (Chelonia Mydas), Olive ridley (Lepidochelys Olivacea), Hawksbill (Eretmochelys Imbricata) and Leatherback (Dermochelys Coriacea).

The  most common in Sukamade beach is The Green turtle (Chelonia Mydas). Because there are a lot of Green turtles landing and laying eggs on this beach. A turtle is an ancient animal,which lives more than 100 years.

Sukamade turtle beach is a part of Meru Betiri National Park, which is 6-7 hr  from the center of Banyuwangi. The national Park was protected by Dutch East Indies government rules in 1931-1938. The ministry of agriculture designated it  as a wildlife sanctuary for the Java tiger territory area of 50.000 hectares . an increase to 58.000 hectares addition from plantation land. In 1997 this area became a national park by the ministry of forestry. the national park border with different environments. in the north area border of treblasala and  perum RPH curahtakir plantation. in the eastern part border by sarongan village and sumberjambe’s plantation area. directly bordered on the south by the Indonesian ocean. and western part is bordered by various villages, Curahnongko village, Andongrejo Village, Sanenrejo Village.

Meru Betiri national park  which is renowned for abundant diversity of biodiversity, and conservation for flora and fauna. One of the magnetisms of Meru Betiri National Park is the turtle conservation. as the multiply place of the turtle, it makes the national park its known as paradise of the turtle. every year a thousand  green turtle landing in sukamade beach and lay eggs. the ranger as the conservation team, try hard to protect the turtle and the egg from predators.

In addition, Meru Betiri National park also protect the endemic flora and fauna. the fauna that possible you meet along the trip are giant palm tree, teak, benda tree,jungle jackfruit, rubber, and many more. and beside this,the endemic fauna in this area such as leopard, bull, peacock, eagle, black long tail monkey(lutung), grey monkey, jungle roster, etc. 

What makes this trip interesting?

Challenging place for the adventure. The maze of twisted pathways, it can not off for the way go to Sukamade beach.

The ways to go to Sukamade takes about 4 hours by using the jeep 4WD. Along the way, you will be presented with an incredible view. The shooting sound of the wind, wildlife that we meet.This not only an adventure but also a good trip for us to learn about nature. we close to the nature , reorganizing the importance thing to caring and protecting the nature

Riding on the 4WD transport through the forest

For you guys,Meru Betiri Offer many interesting thing to do, the most common thing that you can do like Trying  the sensation,enjoying the view on the stony and bumpy road and Crossing the rivers ,as the amazing challenging adrenaline in the nature on the rooftop of  4WD .  you must try it when you are going to sukamade.Beside that you can stop for a while, and have some walk to take a picture and enjoy the road by smooth trekking.

See processing of making the brown sugar

Brown sugar the healthier sugar possible for you to see the process. brown sugar is made from the coconut branches. the process from getting the liquid from the coconut the until it becomes printing brown sugar traditionally. Making the brown sugar is quite longer it takes about 4-5 hour for processing until solid afterward transfer to the cup and wait around 1 hour. coming here to get another experience of the local life. 

Coffee Break at the riverside inside the National Park

Enjoying a cup  of coffee with the nature near the river. After the tiring trip, the best sensation would you try. during that you may possibly meet jungle roaster, bull or dears. watching the small fish in the clear water, is another sensation offered by the river.

Smooth Trekking

if you want to have other sensation, let’s try this one. Trekking in the jungle. down the road  through the jungle, explore the jungle and forest, enjoy the scenery, see the wildlife such as Javanese bull, black long tail monkey, and various forest birds. You also can do camping in this jungle, in several locations, provided by the national park

1 Night Camping in the forest

A part of the abundant beauty of Nature, National park also provides the camping area. Camping also offers some activities such as fishing, bird watching, outdoor cooking, etc. camping is not only offers having fun but also allows to try something different during the tour.

Meet to our happiest idol 🙂

If you love the social activities, to be closer with local life, playing with children, you will get in this trip. there is some small villages with over 250 family cards that will  give you a warm welcome. playing and joking with them you may not get in other place. try a local activities such as swimming in the river, Plenty the peanut plants, looking for their cattle, etc.

Seeking the Turtles

Seeking the turtle is the main Thing we do in the National park. located in Sukamade beach, we do seek the sea turtle in the evening. Mama sea  turtles stay in the sea, in the afternoon. if they want to lay the eggs. Then at dusk, the mama will go to the beach and find the best place for laying the egg. find the  temperature to make their egg stabil. 85% of green  turtles coming to the beach lying the egg. There are many natural factors that make the turtle don’t come to the beach such as the predators, the brighten environment, etc. Green Turtles average more than 100 eggs in one nest. According to the National Park regulations, only one turtle every night allows for the observed attraction. Meanwhile let the other turtle process naturally.

Plant the egg in the semi-hatchery area

After processing the egg, the ranger will take out all the eggs and bring them to the semi-hatchery area and plant there. This is the place for relocating eggs from the beach, to avoid predators. The predators are jungle pig, wild bard, monkey and people. the semi-hatchery area also has the predator’s red ant. the red ant will eat the placenta of the baby.

the egg will stay in the semi-hatchery around 2 weeks- 2 months. they take 25% for the attraction for the visitor and education.and the rest will be released naturally.

Release Baby turtle in the next morning

releasing baby turtles we do it in the early morning around 6 AM. The ranger has prepared a bucket of the turtle for every group.

Bring them to the sea, release  them the sun rise is rising. that we know the turtle is truly sensitive to the sun. so it is a good choice for them release in the early morning.

realising them rather far from the sea, it is makes their memory printing on where they are coming from. if they are ready to laying the egg, they will come back again here. so how clever they are.

during we release them, some predator like sea eagle will come. so the amount that we have released, from 1000 turtles only 1 turtle can survive in the nature. many factor in the nature such us, the underwater predatorsthe temperature of water , and pollution of water.

so, what we are doing now is helping the regeneration of the turtle from ancient animal.

How about The Accommodation?

The accommodation is basic. We live in the jungle all the things are limited such as the electricity starts at 5 PM – 10 PM. No networking, phone signal and TV. It is good for you who are a peaceful seekers. So, before you start the trip, get everything done before you enter this area.

All the things are fun and adventures. You must try and gain a lot of experiences in a different way while traveling to Sukamade.

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Abel

Senior Guide

Hi.. I am Abel. I love music, cooking, travelling and reading. 

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See it closer what inside of Meru Betiri National Park

See it closer what inside of Meru Betiri National Park

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Meru Betiri at glance

The Meru Betiri National Park is located on the eastern side of Java island. According to the official’s data, Meru Betiri covered as wide as 58.000 hectares. It has numerous varieties of flora and fauna inside which shows on the land, up in the sky and along coastline.

This rich of variety of life form namely Biodiversity. It has five type of ecosystems; coastal forest, brackish forest, lowland rain forest, swamp forest, and rheofit ecosystem. All those ecosystems are home to animals and plants which have numerous species.

Endemic flora in the Meru Betiri is Padmosari Flower (Rafflesia zollingeriana). While the native wildlife resident which have been recorded by officials are Leopards, Bull, Deer, Boar, Green Peafowl, Javanese Hawk, Slow Loris, Primates . As for the types of turtles are Leatherback turtle, Olive riddle turtle, Hawksbill turtle, and Green turtle.

Some zoologist states that in Meru Betiri is one of the main site of Javanese Tiger. In fact, those beauty animal has been avowed extinct long ago. Meanwhile, in recently update data they states that they found the track of Leopard and caught them on the camera.

In addition to biological potential, Meru Betiri National Park also has a very strategic tourism potential to visit. In the district of Banyuwangi there are Sukamade Beach, Rajegwesi Beach, Green Bay, Damai Bay and Stone Shore. While Jember area there are Permisan Beach, Meru Beach, Nanggelan Beach and Bandealit Beach.

The first step of sea turtle’s baby see the world

The most popular beach in Meru Betiri National Park is Sukamade. This is the main site of four species turtles come ashore to lay their eggs every night beneath the sand. The average number of the eggs for one turtle is 90 to 130 eggs. If the ranger find more than one turtle in a night, it can be 350 eggs per night. Thus, due to the intensity of turtles producing egg highly, the national park ranger have to keep this area from poacher and wild predator in 24 hours.

Turtle hatchery

The National Park ranger take good nurturing care of the eggs. They collect it into the hatchery zone and waiting for 40 days until all of them hatching. The percentage of  hatching can reach 93% as if they can make the chamber-nest temperature as well as natural process.

Once the eggs have hatched and the turtle’s baby are born, the ranger and or caretaker feed them well with the smooth chopping fish and algae. They have to make sure that the baby physically well-nourished before they release them to the sea. Seeing the process of releasing is heartwarming when witness this tiny creatures grab by the tides and facing their future in the ocean.

Turtle baby at Meru betiri

Meanwhile, according to the officials ranger, the natural process of hatching can be only 75 %. It is due to many factors influence the process of hatching. Some factors which can make hatching process unsuccessful are; predators, sea tides, temperature under the sand. The natural predator for turtle’s eggs are boar, monkey, snake, monitor lizard.

How to get to Meru Betiri National Park?

Meru Betiri National Park can be accessed from two regencies. Both regencies are Jember and Banyuwangi. If you start from Jember regency, you can start the tour direct to Bande Alit beach and then continue to Sukamade.

But if you take from Banyuwangi you have a big chance to visit many stunning places. You can visit Ijen Crater and afterwards going to Sukamade. You can also take a tour to go there after taking Kalibaru Plantation tour.

However it can be easy when you take from Banyuwangi. Common tour agency customized their tour to Meru Betiri National Park after Ijen or Kalibaru Plantation tour.

Hiring private car

Hiring private car is fully recommended. It caused will make you easier to enjoy your journey to go anywhere. As we know that the distance of tourism spots in East Java are pretty far from one to another. Somehow transportation to Sukamade will change two times. First using a smooth city car and then change it into 4 WD car. But if you are already hiring 4 WD car from Banyuwangi, you don’t need to change it.

Using public transport

On the other hand, there is also another option to reach Meru Betiri National Park. That is using public transport. If you are coming from Banyuwangi, you can take a bus at Brawijawa Bus Station and stop at Jajag regency. Afterwards, you have to search a transport to drop you off at Pesanggaran Village. Once arrive in Pesanggaran, you have to look for another transportation to bring you to Sarongan village or direct to Sukamade. It needs a lot of effort and patience to search transportation service to bring you to Meru Betiri.

However, in this case hiring private car is fully recommended than using public transport. You can change the option by taking Bus and then booking the jeep with local tour agency in southern of Banyuwangi.

Things to do in Meru Betiri National Park

You will be driving from Ijen to Sukamade around 4 hours to reach Pesanggaran village. In this place you have to change your vehicle into 4 WD car. Along the way to go there you will pass through the rocky terrain and stop at the awesome places that makes the tour will be going to WOW!

Here are the bucket activities that you can have during your excursion to Meru Betiri National Park.

  • Adventure driving

Sukamade transport at Meru Betiri

Driving into 4WD car going through rocky terrain, river and row of the trees at National Park will be great experience.

  • Green Bay

Green Bay at Meru Betiri National Park

Green bay is like a private beach. Hide away from people and it is located inside of Meru Betiri National Park. With white warm sand and blue-greenish water, this beach is the best place to visit during the tour after through rocky terrain. You can do swimming, taking plenty photos or just sightseeing around this beach. To reach this spot you have to get through the dirt narrow track, cross shallow river and a bit physical demanding activities.

  • Traditional Brown Sugar

Traditional Brown Sugar at Meru Betiri

It is traditional brown sugar industry which has been managed by local people in Sungai Lembu area. They take the sugar liquid from coconut bloom at the plantation. Early morning around 04.00 am they start to go to the plantation to take the sugar liquid then process this for about 4 hours before it become a brown solid sugar. It is traditionally sugar maker. Visit this place and gain the new experience on your travel in East Java.

  • Cocoa Plantation

This plantation is controlled by local as their daily job. They work for 8 hours in a day to controlled this plant. Other locals are also working in the cocoa factory in this area.

  • Turtle at Sukamade Beach

This is the icon of Meru Betiri National Park. There are four species of turtle that come ashore laying their eggs in every year. Those species are Leatherback turtle , Lekang turtle , Hawksbill turtle, and Green turtle. In Sukamade beach the most regularly come ashore is Green Turtle. One green turtle can lay their eggs average 80 – 120 eggs per night.

The activity of Meru Betiri National Park Ranger

This is not about the place for turtle, but also Sukamade is one of the main site of Turtle conservation in East Java. The National Park Ranger keep this place to help their existence still in a good record number.

Here is the National Park Ranger was collecting the turtle’s eggs and put them all beneath the sand. Afterwards waiting for 40 days as turtle babies hatching.

  • Meru Betiri National Park Accommodation

Here is the accommodation at Meru Betiri National Park. This is the Ranger lodge that offered to tourist who want to do excursion to Meru Betiri National Park.

Let’s take a look other attractions

Meru Betiri is classified as Biodiversity. It keeps so many creatures inside. Endemic flora in the Meru Betiri region is the Padmosari Flower (Rafflesia zollingeriana). While protected species of fauna are Leopards , Bull , Deer , Peacocks , Javanese Hawk , Slow Loris , Lutung Javanese and Turtle.

Meanwhile the common creatures that we can meet and see  in Meru Betiri National Park are not so many as listed on the Ranger record. It caused the area of Meru Betiri is pretty wide, thus them spread out all the area.

How long to complete excursion to this National Park?

Well… this area is pretty wide and large. To complete around this National Park needs 4 days trekking. If you love do trekking you must try this program and hopefully you can meet the rarely creatures inside.

Here are the creatures that you can meet and see if you are lucky along doing excursion at Meru Betiri 🙂

  • Oriental Pied Hornbill
Oriental pied hornbill meru betiri national park
Photo by: matatelinga.com
  • Monitor Lizard
Monitor lizard at Meru Betiri
Photo by: alampriangan.com
  • Javan langurs
Lutung jawa at meru betiri
Photo by: nationalgeographic.grid.id

That are what we can share to all traveler who wants to visit Meru Betiri or Sukamade. You can make reservation or booking this excursion by contact (email/Whatsapp)

Email: javaparadisetravel@gmail.com
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Have a good day.. traveler!