The mention of Krakatau, located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, raises a variety of feelings gut to a variety of people. Ask an expatriate what they think and they react with crazy comments like "Oh, I went there, beautiful," and "been there, done that." Ask an Indonesian and you can get some heart wrenching comments that border on fear, ancestral spirits and a devout wound fed natural event around a sense of just let it be. Nobody wants to remember the tragic event in 1883 that 36,000 people died, triggering a tsunami of 50 meters and spewing enough ash into the atmosphere to around the world three times.
Krakatau certainly has its mystique. Just getting there is a journey of mental patience and kidney dysfunction. In recent years, I have done this trip three times; All oaths be the last. So be it, just last weekend, I carried my wife, two children and one of Canada unsuspecting coworker at the place I swore was now history. We stayed at some bungalows Anyer Beach, which are still the same today as in 1992. The beach is a beautiful form of cupid with a good boogie boarding and body surfing. Evenings can be so peaceful with a starlight consolation and gentle sea breezes. I did not think of not banyak AC bed bugs, fly broken windows, lack of hot water and dead geckos in the bedrooms. We could forget the loneliness that night due to the karaoke 100db local hotspot and firecrackers some friendly neighbors who were leaving at 2am. Then came the mosque at 4am.
As you can imagine, my crew woke up pretty grumpy the next morning as I had still planned to meet the boat at 7am. The morning was true to form our boat pickup location was different from the one agreed to the night before. After transporting 80 kg of material through the winding kampung path with no sign of a boat, I made a call to find the boat (and crew) we expected a marina six kilometers. The captain quickly realized his mistake and soon arrived on a motorcycle as the boat met us at the beach.
The trip to Krakatau was uneventful, although very stoic. My youngest son wore a perpetual scowl look on his face as he was second in space for 10 bottles of scuba floor high filling pressure. My eldest son was smarter by rightly bow to absorb radiation. The sea was relatively quiet with large cumulus clouds swelled on the horizon. The trip seemed to turn into eternity for the 40 km. Finally, we became close enough to see the volcano was shrouded in dark clouds of rain-looking sinister.
All I could think was Jurassic Park. The seas have become even oppress and humidity. Anak Krakatau throbbed pyroclastic steam and small toxic, acting as my home percolator on a bad morning. It was then the captain told us to "foreign tax" local climbing Anak Krakatau is now 4 million Rupiah! This is a new form of corruption at its best and was designed by local chiefdoms, as Krakatoa is actually a national park! Whatever. We did not want to set foot on this baby blowing anyway. I wanted to get as quickly as possible with water.
The two dives were nice, but seriously lacked the appropriate number of reef fish. Cascading house size boulders littered the seabed slope down to at least 40 meters. Gorgonians gargantuan monster inhabited depth and appropriately large green moray. After the first dive, I was too scared to retrieve my SLR camera from its housing underwater to change in the wide-angle lens because of our "uncontrolled conditions." This proved to be a critical stupid gesture because the second dive against an outcrop in the sea was spectacular big country landscape.
twelve o'clock came and we pulled into a small sandy cove on the east side of Pulau Verlaten. We are not only the crew started a fire to cook our gourmet meal. One, two, then three very curious, large monitor lizards came for the picking. Before I realized it, our Canadian friend was back on the boat. I have not had the courage to tell him that they are avid swimmers. Lunch was amazing and beautifully prepared, since the only utensils were a spoon, a dull knife, a broken burner and a house fire. Saying goodbye with a stick to fend off pesky our monitors, we head to sea for a short dive in a jacuzzi submarine near the coast at Anak Krakatau and the power port. Return by Cilegon was an understatement to four lanes on a two-lane road. Only in Indonesia!
What I always liked about Krakatau is its landscape and activity in progress. In more than a dozen visits, dating from 1992, it never ceases to amaze me about the greatness and power it has accumulated volcano. There are years I was there for a tragedy involving a number of teachers in which a young woman died. It is not easy to forget such things in life and it certainly gave me a healthy respect for the volcano from that point.
Geologically, most of the original three volcanoes are currently submerged, as the last eruption blew apart the entire complex, the formation of a massive series of calderas. Thereafter, the caldera still submerged due to shrinkage of the crust during the cooling phase. Only part of one of the pre-1883 volcanoes remain (Pulau Rakata) of this latest explosion. What most people do not realize is that the other two islands, Pulau Vertalen and Pulau Lang are collapsed ancestral Krakatau of remains dating from 416 AD! Krakatau emerged in 1927 and has since continued to grow
In summary :.
Location (province): is Carita in Banten Province. Krakatau complex is located in Kabupaten Serang
Getting there by car :. Drive West Jakarta on Jl. Toll Tangerang-Merak to Ciligong output. Take Jl. Selatan Lingkar in the western coastal road (Jl. Brigadir Jeneral Katamso). . Travel south for about 47 km from Carita Beach
Where to sleep : On Carita Beach: Sambolo Beach Bungalows www.sambolo.co.id/ From here you can take excursions a day Krakatau. You can also rent a liveaboard as Cecilia Ann and sail around the Sunda Strait. Diving facilities available: http://javaseacharters.com
Things to do: Visit the lighthouse at Anyer Cikoneng. This lighthouse was built in 1885, two years after the original has been deleted by the 1883 tsunami Other fun activities include mountain biking through rice fields and countryside (bring your bikes), beach activities with massages and banana boat rides. Fantastic sunsets facing west Krakatau threat in the Sunda Strait defines the end of a perfect day.
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