RINJANI MOUNTAIN, LOMBOK, INDONESIA-JUNE 11,2015: Unidentified hiker takes a dangerous selfie at 2,500m above sea level at Plawangan Senaru on his way to climb Rinjani Mountain in Lombok.
RINJANI MOUNTAIN, LOMBOK, INDONESIA-JUNE 11,2015: Unidentified local kids fish at Lake Segara Anak at Rinjani Mountain in Lombok, Indonesia.
Segara Anak Lake at Rinjani Mountain, Lombok, Indonesia. The lake is at 2,000 m from sea level.
Panoramic view of Lombok island in Indonesia from 2,000m above sea level on the way to Rinjani at Plawangan Senaru.
Mt Rinjani
By Dinah Jackson
Undoubtedly readers are familiar with Bali, a tourist mecca right in the middle of Indonesian Archipelago. It has fantastic surfing, and waves and riptides in the south that are just too dangerous to mess with. People flock to Bali to relax, surf, and bask in the sun in a tropical paradise. The island east of Bali is little heard of Lombok. Lombok is where you want you go if you want to climb Mt. Rinjani, which is, in my opinion perhaps the most dynamic volcano in the world. Lombok and Bali apparently did not keep close ties throughout history. While Bali is oddly enough predominately Hindu, Lombok has mostly converted from animism to Christianity.
Mt. Rinjani rises nearly 4000 meters straight out of the sea. Typical for tropical mountains of that height, it has several distinct eco-zones, according to altitude. It has been worshiped as a God since antiquity and that worship still continues today in an adapted form for Christianity. Mt. Rinjani erupts occasionally, with lava that can shoot up as high as 1500 meters into the sky above its top. It is stable enough though that thousands climb to its peak every year, and there are eruption shelters along the trails. It is however a factor to be fully aware of in considering climbing this amazing mountain.
What makes the mountain different from other volcanoes (other than it is simply gorgeous to look at from a distance, is its caldera. When you finally do arrive at the top (a grand accomplishment in itself), you will be greeted first of all by a extraordinary beautiful turquoise lake. While caldera lakes are common in volcanoes, and always beautiful, on the other side of the lake is of all things a ‘baby volcano.’ In other words, there is a new volcano growing in the caldera of the old volcano, something that I have never seen before. Whether climbers tackle that as well, I don’t know, but Mt. Rinjani is odd, bold, beautiful, and legendary. I hope to climb it sometime and see the earth as it was.
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