IJEN BLUE FIRE

Ijen crater is one of the large acid crater lake in the world. Not only the beautiful crater with green tosca lake, ijen also ofer beautiful blue fire.

The blue flame / blue fire  is a flame that is created from a tinge of liquid sulfur in the Ijen crater. The heat of the crater is combined with sulfur creates the blue flame effect on the surface. This phenomenon can be seen just before sunrise. Therefore, visitors  must make the climb, at least starting at 01.00 from  Paltuding.

Climb about 1,5 hours to the top of Ijen Volcano then go down to the crater 45 minutes. Visitors can see blue fire from 10 meters, but when the sulfur smoke come to us, its smelling storng, so mask and flash light is the important  thing to bring there.

Kawah Ijen / Ijen crater is the only one in Indonesia, which has a natural phenomenon of blue fire. In the world, there are only two places that have the Blue Fire, there is also a blue fire in Iceland. Because of this rare phenomenon, it's no wonder that so many foreigners who climb Ijen crater in the early hours of the day. Generally they are from Europe, like Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium.