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EPIC EAST JAVA - the most beautiful place in Indonesia?
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Apr 14, 2025
East Java - the most beautiful place in Indonesia? I arrive in Malang, and take a two day motorbike trip across the Island, to visit the Tempuk Sewu waterfalls, and hike Mount Bromo for sunrise! support my channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jaypalfrey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjaypalfrey #indonesia #travel #vlog
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Okay, good evening everybody and welcome back to beautiful Jogjakarta
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Today I'm leaving the city and I'm heading on an overnight train to Malang
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I've heard some incredible things about this area of Indonesia and I can't wait to explore
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I booked executive class which I haven't tried yet before here in Indonesia
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I've tried the economy, the business and now executive is one of the higher classes
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So hopefully it'll be very comfortable. It's about six hours, six and a half hours to Malang
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It's currently 11.30pm My train leaves at 12.30pm So I have an hour to hopefully
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Inshallah grab some food I have to get my ticket sorted because I booked online
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So you have to get it printed out while you're here And even get the train to Milan
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I can't wait Okay, good morning everybody
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It's 6.40 in the morning and I've just arrived here in Malang
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I'm so happy to be here. The views coming here were incredible
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Let's head into the city to my hostel. Good morning, everybody
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Salam al pagi from my second day here in Milan. Today is a very exciting day because I've rented a motorbike for two days
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and I'm going to be heading on an incredible road trip to some of the most famous waterfalls here in this part of Indonesia and also
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to Mount Bromo tomorrow morning so we're into the scooter should just be up this
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road let's begin this incredible journey Yes! Hello! How can you do
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Can you do this photo? Yes, please. This photo is a photo
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You guys, this road is stunning. It's more of a local back road towards the waterfall, but it is beautiful
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Covered in farms. There's a huge river just to my left. It is stunning
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Guys, I just had to pull over. 30 minutes away but this view has just taken my breath away. You have all of the rice fields
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and then you have Mount Sumerra here in the back which is towards my destination. It's a huge active
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volcano here in the region and I'm just heading to Burima which is around this region too so
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wow what a stunning landscape. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my entire life
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and I can't believe I'm here this is incredible. Hello. Hello
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One Yes Ticket 20 Okay I just arrived inside The ticket 20 000 rupees to enter which is actually not so bad that about one pound about one dollar thirty i think it a little bit of a short walk
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to see the waterfalls and i can't wait i've heard it's one of the most spectacular waterfalls
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not only in indonesia but in the whole world so let's go
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Okay, I just arrived at one of the viewpoints
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Okay. Wow. Oh my gosh. This is incredible. Take a look at this
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All I need from you to me All my mountains and seas
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All I need from you to me All my mountains and seas
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All I need from you to me and there you have it behind me the Tempak Seru waterfalls loosely translated in Javanese
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to a thousand waterfalls the Glildic river runs past the huge volcanoes behind me and
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they all meet for these waterfalls they are just spectacular I've seen images like this
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all over Instagram and honestly I thought they were photoshopped because usually you can see Mount Semeru in the background but it's just got a little bit too cloudy I've got here a
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little bit too late probably about one hour too late good this is stunning and well worth the drive
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coming here it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen so Mount Semeru is one of the most
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active volcanoes here in Indonesia if not the most active so as you leave the waterfalls there's an
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evacuation route started raining really hard and I don't have any water proof so
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So at the end of last year there was a huge pyroclastic flow which came from the volcano
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eruption and i didn't realize i was going to be driving through
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i didn't realize i was going to be driving through one of the villages that it was affected by
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you can see the ash it's so high and this is what's left of the houses here
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i'm now thinking that's that might be why the bridge i just drove over was destroyed
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I guess it from the eruption that happened I think six months ago
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okay i'm about 10 minutes away from my home stay it should just be up here
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the volcano behind me that is mount somero i think i'm not 100 sure but it really smells of sulfur
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i'll be wearing my mask the whole time anyway but you really need it here oof
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smells really bad and by the look of it there's been a pyroplastic flow which has come down and
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i think this is why there's so much sand here i've been driving in the sand for about 30 minutes
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the sun is almost set i need to hurry up and i'm really happy i left the time i left um because
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it's taken me a long time to get here especially with the rain uh but so far it's been amazing and
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landscape is worth it so i will check in at the guest house there are eruptions happening right
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now as i speak this is crazy okay this is the guest house i'm staying in
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i'm staying in a place called romo otics i think the name is it's about 10 pounds for this room
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which is pretty nice pretty good uh very basic of course we're in a mountain resort we're in
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the middle of east java at a volcano so i can't expect too much and honestly i don't need too much
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I'm so tired. It's been a crazy day, an amazing day. I need to wake up at three to start hiking at four
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I think, because sunrise is 5.30. So I'm going to get a good rest
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and I will see you tomorrow morning for sunrise at Mount Bromo. Okay, so I've just arrived at Suruni Point
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where I parked my bike It 5 baht I just picked up a coffee and now it about a 30 minute walk to king kong viewpoint it about 4 30 now so i have an hour and 10 minutes until sunrise so i left just
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some good time i did crash my bike a little bit on the way up one of the wing mirrors has fallen
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off so i have to fix that later the roads coming up here are pretty are really actually very bad
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probably one of the worst roads i've driven up so if you're going to drive up here just be very
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careful and drive as carefully as you can you can't drive slow because it's very it's pretty
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much vertical coming up so you have to have some good speed but it's very windy and very bumpy
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the boulders are huge so i actually recommend you getting a jeep to come up here and just leaving
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your bike in the city before you come up here and just paying the extra charge because now i have to
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pay for getting the wing mirrors fixed which might be cheap i'm going to find somewhere later
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i'll figure that out later so let's start hiking and i'll see you at the top
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all right you guys after about 30 minutes of hiking out of the incredible valley i've arrived
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here at the viewpoint and so has everybody else who came in the jeeps i was the only person walking
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up the hill but I definitely preferred that so much more fulfilling it's so beautiful take a look at this
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the sun has just come over the horizon and you can see the volcanoes in the background
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mount samara is erupting roughly every 10 to 15 minutes so i think i've just got a good
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time lapse to show you how much is erupting it's pretty amazing everyone's in such good
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spirits here even though it's so busy it's not cold the weather is perfect and
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very very blessed to be here it's sublime okay so i'm just hiking back down now what a beautiful sunrise it was amazing i loved every
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second of it also if you're coming to do this hike which i highly recommend you don't actually
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need to buy the entrance ticket so if you're going to come and do this hike don't pay for it
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because I spent 220,000 this morning when I didn't have to but it's well worth coming to I
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loved it so much just pick up some tea or coffee or some snacks from the locals to support them
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and come and enjoy this epic sunrise well one of my favorite things I've actually ever done
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anywhere in the world it's amazing
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