Mount Batur
Translation provided by mLingua: polskiLast weekend, together with a group of 6 Couch Surfers, we decided to climb to Mount Batur. Mount Batur is a 1,5 km high active volcano near Ubud.
We started climbing at 2 a.m. just to reach the peak at 4 a.m. and wait for the sunrise. Then, we went for a walk along the edge of the crater, went down in the atmosphere of whining, then enjoyed the afternoon siesta. Fantastic adventure and great people; Couch Surfing rulez! I met three local girls, one Japanese and one Malaysian.
The peak of the volcano looked totally different from what I imagined. In the inside of the crater I expected to see a round, dark, deep, smoking depths, to which one better not get near as one may accidentally fall into it. Nothing like that 
Firstly – the volcano did emit some smoke, but not from the inside, just from the nearby rocks on the hillside – both form the inside and the outside ones. Secondly, the inside of the crater was completely overgrown with greenery, and was neither so dreadfully steep, nor very deep. It was possible to go inside.
Thirdly, the crater didn’t even look like crater! It’s circumference was so huge, and the terrain was so varied, that one needed a great dose of spatial imagination to “assemble” the surrounding into the image of the volcano’s peak. Especially that the volcano “had a hole” in one place, which was invisible from the distance.
The view from the Mount Batur’s peak is a real feast for the eyes. From our peak, the other Bali’s volcano, together with a lake, was visible. Before the dawn this lake seemed to be nothing but the fog. The hillsides of volcano and the local land were folded like a huge walnut. Farther, one could notice mountainous border of a land covered with palms, and a matt ocean intermingled with sky in enigmatic proportions. Somewhere on the horizon, amid the clouds, Lombok – the island with even bigger, namely 4 km high volcano - showed through.
I will climb it as well!
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