IJEN CRATER ( Kawah Ijen )

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Kawah Ijen is the world’s largest highly acidic lake and is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation in which sulfur-laden baskets are hand-carried from the crater floor.. many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The volcanic cone of Ijen dominates the landscape at the eastern end of Java.
Crater of Ijen is filled by a spectacular turquoise blue lake, its surface streaked in wind-blown patterns of yellow sulphur

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~ by vathin on February 10, 2009.

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