Last week was full of unexpected adventures and unseen things.
The main reason for this was the active volcano Agung located in the north of the island.
Probably photos will speak more than a story, but for the atmosphere, story is needed.
ASHES OF THE AGUNG
We were sitting at our friends hood and just chilling, listening to music and drinking wine. About 2 am in the night someone read the news that Agung volcano is active!!! (Volcano height is 3031 m and ash went another 2500m high)
I offered to go there NOW, because there are 3 hours to go there and we should be the by the sunrise time. Actually, I was just kidding, but guys took it seriously and agreed on going.
So after 40 minutes we were on the way with our camera, hot tea and pancakes for breakfast.
It was probably the most spontaneous thing in my life and it was sooo full with adventures and the lack of sleep couldn’t stop us.
We arrived to Pura Lumpuyang temple, sat down on the stairs and we were waiting for the clouds to go away. We waited for a pretty long time and finally saw the summit.
OH MY GOD! It was incredible! The ash looked like a delicious whipped cream. In this moment I remembered the geography lessons at school, how we were studying about volcanos and I was wondering how it looks like in real life. And here I am...sitting on the stairs somewhere in Bali and looking on an active volcano.
We had a lovely breakfast with the view we will never forget! I could sit there forever and watch it, cuz it’s soooo attractive.
LAVA IS COMING OUT
While enjoying the live jazz music in restaurant, one of our friends texted me that Agung has erupted and this time lava came out!
I checked the recent news about it and pictures I saw, were incredible. I told our company maybe we need to go there one more time? They absolutely agreed and we started to think how to get there.
While me and Yan were driving home to take the camera, other organized the car for the whole night. We left at 1:30 in the night and in two hours we reached the first spot.
Unfortunately, it was super cloudy and we couldn’t see anything, so we had to change the spot.
Around 5:30 in the morning we arrived to a village called Amed, there was a sunset point with a view to volcano with tables and chairs. We felt like we were VIP guests, because there were almost no people, complete silence, the ocean was quite and THE VOLCANO!!!
And one more time, unfortunately, but we arrived too late. Lava was gone and only a small territory of forests were on fire. We were not sad, because the sun started to rise and the view got more scenic. We spent there around 2 hours adoring Agung. It was totally worth it to go there.
Everything was safe during both eruptions. Only when the first eruption happened, the airport was closed for 1 day.
Still can’t believe that we were able to see this beauty.
Have safe, but overwhelming travels!
