Amazingly, we did actually manage to get up on time to make the trip to the volcano. After a short stop for breakfast of coffee and soggy banana pancake we began our hike up the big hill.
We started climbing at about 3.15am and after about half an hour the hike got really hard, made more difficult by the fact that it was pitch black and the path was full of volcanic rocks that shifted under your feet when you least expected it. I didn't think I was going to make it to the top during the last 20 minutes but I persivered (mainly so that David couldn't give me any grief later) and made it to the top just in time for sunrise.
And what a sunrise. It was beautiful.
We had a great breakfast (number 2 of the day) of boiled eggs cooked in the volcanic steam (slightly sulphuric) and bread and tea. (The eggs repeated on me all the way back down)
After breakfast and a bit of a rest we had a trip down into the crater to see (and feel) the steam vents and looked into the next crater of the volcano that erupted in 2000 and then walked back down again. I had very wobbly legs by the time we got down to the bottom.
On a less nicer note when I got to the bottom I had to make a mad dash to the loo and had to clench the old buttocks all the way back to Ubud and spent the rest of the day making friends with our toilet. Nice.
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