Ijen Crater So one of the favorite destinations when on holiday to Banyuwangi. Now reaching the top is even easier, even without walking.
Panorama of Ijen Crater located in Banyuwangi, East Java (East Java) it's easy to hypnotize everyone's eyes traveler, especially nature lovers. To achieve it, tourists have to climb around 1,5 jam, it doesn't even stop at the climbing post.
For the public climbing, Of course you need to struggle to reach the Ijen Crater. Tourists have to walk uphill from the entrance to the crater rim for approx 4 km.
There are six climbing posts, starting from Post 1 which is near the entrance to the Post Office 6 near the crater lip. The hiking trail to Ijen Crater starts to climb sharply after Pos 3.
“If you don't want to be tired, just take the trolley. Just sit, can while videoing, taking pictures, suddenly reached the crater lip,” Rusdi said (40), Tamansari residents, Smooth, Banyuwangi to detikcom some time ago.
 Transport trolley in Ijen Crater Photo: (Audrey Santoso/detikcom) |
Rusdi and a number of his friends were indeed seen carrying trolley, which is commonly used to transport goods, from the starting point of the ascent. The difference is that the trolley brought by Rusdi and his friends has been modified with a base and a foam support of approximately the same thickness 10 cm.
“Come on Lamborghini, Lamborghini. Come on Mister, Ferrari, Ferrari,” said Rusdi and his friends to foreign tourists who were climbing.
The Lamborghini and Ferrari that Rusdi and his friends mean are transport trolleys. Of course they were joking, the tourists laughed as if they caught the meaning of the service vendors 'transportation’ this impromptu.
“With trolley, no tired,” Rusdi's friend chimed in and tried to convince the climbers to use their services and energy.
 Transport trolley in Ijen Crater Photo: (Audrey Santoso/detikcom) |
Offer Rusdi and his friends, which the climbers did not understand, finally began to glance at when the hiking trail increasingly uphill sharply, namely after Pos 3. monitoring detikcom, many tourists are public hikers, finally started to get involved in haggling over the fare for the trolley ride up to Ijen Crater.
“If it's from below (entrance) up to the rim of the PP crater (going back and forth) 800 hundred (thousand rupiahs). If only I went home (descending from Ijen Crater) 300 (thousand rupiahs),” said Rusdi.
The former sulfur miner for Ijen Crater said the price was cheaper because it didn't require as much effort as pulling passengers up to Ijen Crater..
“If it's right to go up it takes approx 3 until 4 person. One who pushes the trolley from behind, 2 or 3 the person who pulls the trolley from the front. It depends on the weight of the person being transported,. It was so big (tourist body), 1 the trolley arrived 4 the person who pulls,” said Rusdi.
Although the surface of the climbing route from Pos 4 towards the lip of the Ijen Crater is slippery because of the sandy soil, rocky at several points and increasingly narrow, but Rusdi and his friends seemed skilled at getting through it.
“It is common (transporting heavy loads on trolleys). We used to be able to transport 70 up to hundreds of kilos of sulfur by trolley,” said Rusdi.
The Origin of Tourist Transport Trolleys
Rusdi still said, The presence of trolleys on the Ijen Crater climbing route originated from a French tourist who traveled there in 2014. The French tourist donated a number of trolleys to the sulfur miners.
“A French foreigner first donated trolleys to miners. Yes, maybe it's a pity because you see miners lifting sulfur from above (Ijen Crater) down, think first. Maybe yes,” Rusdi said.
When miners started moving around carrying sulfur on trolleys, Once upon a time there was a tourist who, in the middle of his climb, couldn't make it uphill. Finally, The tourists are transported in a trolley and give some money.
 Russians, transport trolley in Ijen Crater Photo: (Audrey Santoso/detikcom) |
“Finally got inspired to do something like this (trolley to transport tourists). Foamed for comfort,” Rusdi said.
Final, Rusdi said, he and his friends can transport one to two tourists per trolley. The results obtained from tourists are divided for 6 person.
“It's not just two people who pull the trolley. In the post above interesting turns. So (Money) 800 thousand (rupiah) it's shared 5 until 6 person. Yes, not every day (some ride a trolley), just sustenance,” Rusdi said.
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