The next morning we waited at our collection point for our jeep, we waited and waited. Anxious that we had been stood up again and with the prospect of missing sunrise we hopped on the back of 2 locals bikes and headed to the mountains. The journey was challenging, in the pitch black of the night they raced across the plain of the volcano to our first location, the viewing platform perched some 300 metres above Bromo on a neighbouring mountain. The v...

Having been dropped of in Sanur high street we propositioned a local restauranteur to allow us to use her facility for the 6 hour wait we had before our pick up for the overnight bus to Java and our first stop, Mt Bromo. We were finally picked up at 8:00pm by a driver who didn't speak a word of English. Unsure whether we would make the planned sunrise at Mt Bromo the following morning we hopped on the bus and crossed, fingers and closed our eyes. With...