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Day0 16:00hr On the way from singapore to lombok. Try sit at the right side window...
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Day0 18:00hr Arrived at Mataram Airport Lombok
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Day0 18:00hr Mataram Airport Lombok
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Day1 05:30hr Day break at Pondok Indah Senaru
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Day1 05:55hr Pondok Indah Senaru
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Day1 05:56hr Pondok Indah Senaru. Really basic budget motel to spend a night in.
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Day1 05:57hr Pondok Indah Senaru
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Day1 05:57hr Day break at Pondok Indah Senaru.
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Day1 06:25hr Getting ready to transfer to Rinjani trek center after breakfast of banana...
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Day1 06:40hr Arrived at Rinjani Trek Centre after a short drive of less than ten minutes.
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Day1 06:41hr Rinjani Trek Centre Senaru
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Day1 06:46hr Rinjani Trek Centre
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Day1 06:47hr Rinjani Trek Centre
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Day1 06:47hr Rinjani Trek Centre
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Day1 06:52hr 601m a.s.l. Rinjani Trek Centre Senaru
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Day1 06:54hr One group photo at Rinjani Trek Centre Senaru just before we began our trek.
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Day1 06:56hr Off we go!!!
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Day1 07:43hr Arrived at Senaru Gate. We went a bit fast paced thru the forest, it...
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Day1 08:10hr Arrived at Post 1. Short rest.
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Day1 08:10hr Francis at Post 1.
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Day1 08:11hr Post 1 signage.
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Day1 08:13hr Hwa and Cindy at Post 1.
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Day1 09:07hr Arrived at Post Extra. Short rest.
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Day1 09:07hr Post Extra Signage.
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Day1 10:14hr 1500m a.s.l. Arrived at Post 2. Rest and Lunch break.
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Day1 10:14hr Post 2. Porters had all arrived much earlier. They setup the floor...
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Day1 10:15hr Young Porter carrying loads with bamboo pole. The carrying methods...
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Day1 10:17hr Boiling water.
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Day1 10:18hr Post 2 Guide/ Porters preparing our lunch (soup instant noodle with eggs and mix...
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Day1 10:20hr Post 2 Relaxing at Post 2 before lunch. We met 3 very fit fellow Singaporeans...
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Day1 10:20hr Post 2 Chris taking a break Post 2.
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Day1 10:58 Post 2 Our guide Itra (Right) n trainee guide (Left) cooking our lunch.
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Day1 10:58hr Post 2 Our noodle soup lunch. Yummy!
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Day1 10:59hr Post 2 Porters cooking lunch.
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Day1 11:04hr Post 2 Porters removing instant noodle packaging, squeezing out seasoning etc.
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Day1 11:06hr Post 2 Relaxing and sipping hot beverages.
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Day1 14:04hr Post III 2000m a.s.l. Arrived at Post III after lunch.
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Day1 14:55hr
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Day1 15:14hr Setoff after short break.
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Day1 15:21hr It was all uphill coupled with hot n humid weather... we drank a lot but also...
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Day1 15:35hr Another short break.
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Day1 15:50hr Clouds came in...
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Day1 15:55hr Misty.
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Day1 15:56hr
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Day1 15:56hr
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Day1 15:56hr Jackie wasn't well... Prob dehydrated as well...
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Day1 16:40hr SenaruCraterRim 2641m a.s.l Arrived at Senaru Crater Rim Campsite. Spectacular view.
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Day1 16:40hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:40hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:41hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:47hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:49hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:49hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:49hr Senaru Crater Rim Baby Volcano
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Day1 16:52hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:53hr Senaru Crater Rim Jackie at Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 16:52hr Senaru Crater Rim Hwa at campsite. Porters had setup our tentages with sleeping mat,...
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Day1 17:40hr Senaru Crater Rim Sunset
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Day1 17:56hr Senaru Crater Rim Chris and Francis at Senaru Crater Rim. Once the sun set, temperature...
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Day1 17:56hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day1 18:00hr Senaru Crater Rim Sunset. We have our dinner and attempted to sleep early. All were tired after...
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Day2 05:45hr Senaru Crater Rim After a furtile effort to sleep in freezing cold, morning finally arrived.
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Day2 05:47hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 05:48hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 05:50hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 05:52hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 05:57hr Senaru Crater Rim Xiuwan and Jackie washing up. There isn't water point around, so we...
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Day2 06:02hr Senaru Crater Rim Gunung Agung (Bali) and the 3 Gili Islands seen from our campsite.
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Day2 06:03hr Senaru Crater Rim Gunung Agung (Bali) and the 3 Gili Islands seen from our campsite.
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Day2 06:29hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 06:30hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 06:37hr Senaru Crater Rim Breakfast of banana pancake with fruits salad plus hot beverages. Pity...
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Day2 06:55hr Senaru Crater Rim Gunung Agung and Gilis
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Day2 07:29hr Senaru Crater Rim One group photo at Senaru Crater Rim with Baby Volcano before we begun...
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Day2 07:29hr Senaru Crater Rim Baby Volcano
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Day2 07:30hr Senaru Crater Rim Still active! See the smoke?
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Day2 07:30hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 07:30hr Senaru Crater Rim
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Day2 07:30hr Down we go!!!
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Day2 07:41hr Negotiating steep slope down.
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Day2 07:53hr
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Day2 07:53hr
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Day2 07:53hr
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Day2 08:03hr Baby Volcano. The water in the lake has two distinct colours. One side with...
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Day2 08:03hr
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Day2 08:37hr
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Day2 08:40hr Still further down we go!
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Day2 10:35hr Crater Lake Finally we reached Crater Lake
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Day2 10:35hr Crater Lake Local Angler at Crater Lake. Still amazed that local will go thru all the...
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Day2 10:41hr Crater Lake Local Angler camping at lake.
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Day2 10:41hr Crater Lake Trek at narrow path just beside the lake... holding to tree roots etc.
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Day2 11:20hr Going down further to hot spring.
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Day 2 11:21hr Small waterfall beside hotsping
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Day2 11:21hr Francis 'Woo-ing' when soaking tired feet/legs in the hot spring. Shiok!
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Day2 12:27hr Local Anglers at lake.
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Day2 12:32hr Crater Lake Crossing a stream to our res point for lunch.
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Day2 12:43hr Our lunch in the making... Thanks to the diligent porters...
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Day2 12:44hr Yummy fried instant noodle.
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Day2 13:30hr Crater Lake
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Day2 13:31hr Crater Lake Local Angler.
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Day2 13:43hr After lunch, we were on our way and trek up to Sembalun Crater.
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Day2 14:18hr
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Day2 14:53hr
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Day2 17:19hr
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Day2 17:24hr SembalunCraterRim2639m asl Finally arrived at Sembalun Crater Rim campsite after another day of long trek.
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Day2 17:24hr Sembalun Crater Rim Again porters had setup our tentages. Relaxing, resting and sipping hot...
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Day2 17:25hr Sembalun Crater Rim Hwa and Cindy at Sembalun Crater Rim. Hwa's knee started to ache.
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Day2 17:26hr Sembalun Crater Rim Started to get cold as sun is setting again. See Yingxiu trying to...
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Day2 17:46hr Sembalun Crater Rim
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Day2 17:47hr Sembalun Crater Rim Sunset at Sembalun Crater Rim
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Day2 17:58hr Sembalun Crater Rim Almost dark! We slept around 19:00hr immediately after dinner. At least with...
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Day3 02:43hr All 13 of us went for summit attempt at 01:45hr (after light breakfast...
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Day3 05:48hr View from Summit After more than four hours of gruesome ascend, we finally reached the summit....
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Day3 05:48hr Rinjani Summit 3726m asl
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Day3 05:48hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 05:48hr Rinjani Summit Sunrise!!!
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Day3 05:52hr Rinjani Summit Sunrise over the horizon.
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Day3 05:53hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 05:55hr Rinjani Summit Yuying
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Day3 06:01hr Rinjani Summit Jackie. Apology that some of the photos didn't turn out well. Not sure if...
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Day3 06:02hr Rinjani Summit Yingxiu
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Day3 06:03hr Rinjani Summit Xiuwan
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Day3 06:04hr Rinjani Summit Roger
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Day3 06:07hr Rinjani Summit Sunrise over crater lake
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Day3 06:11hr Rinjani Summit Hwa & Cindy
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Day3 06:11hr Rinjani Summit Lina
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Day3 06:18hr Rinjani Summit Siew Li
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Day3 06:19hr Rinjani Summit Ma Li
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Day3 06:32hr Rinjani Summit Hwa & Cindy. This time round, hwa's knee ached so much that Cindy was...
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Day3 06:34hr Rinjani Summit Me
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Day3 06:39hr Rinjani Summit Our Royal couple (Wong Ah Pa and Wong Ah Ma) Francis & Chris....
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Day3 06:40hr Rinjani Summit Chris & Lina
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Day3 06:43hr Rinjani Summit Yuying
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Day3 06:43hr Rinjani Summit Me
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Day3 06:44hr Rinjani Summit Ma Li
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Day3 06:45hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 06:48hr Rinjani Summit All 13 of us made it to the summit!!! Thumb up to ourselves!!!
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Day3 06:49hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 06:57hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 06:58hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 06:59hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:00hr Rinjani Summit Descend from summit after eating some energy bars.
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Day3 07:01hr Rinjani Summit Monkey at summit. The primate is reather big sized.
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Day3 07:02hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:03hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:04hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:08hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:14hr Rinjani Summit Descend... seems easier to take big steps and dig in with your...
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Day3 07:17hr Rinjani Summit Reminds me of Nepal's Island peak... haha
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Day3 07:19hr Rinjani Summit See how steep the slope is??? Coupled with loose soil.... It was a gruesome...
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Day3 07:20hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:20hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:23hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:26hr Rinjani Summit Crater Lake and Baby Volcano
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Day3 07:27hr Rinjani Summit Cant't imagine we really climb up all the way to the summit... Top right...
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Day3 07:27hr Rinjani Summit Look like Surface of the Moon... ha ha... A BIG step for mankind... ha ha......
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Day3 07:44hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 07:56hr Baby Volcano A couple days after our climb, Baby Volcano erupted, forcing Rinjani...
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Day3 08:01hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 08:01hr Still on the way down to Sembalun Crater Rim campsite. The descend...
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Day3 08:16hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 08:16hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 08:22hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 08:24hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 08:28 Rinjani Summit
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Day3 08:29hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 08:49hr Rinjani Summit
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Day3 08:52hr Still Descending
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Day3 08:54hr Change in soil condition... more small pebbles...
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Day3 09:39hr Small ridge for walking...
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Day3 09:49hr Baby Volcano
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Day3 13:24hr We only managed to reached campsite around 11:30hr. Had our breakfast...
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Day4 06:02hr Day break at camp site
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Day4 06:06hr Toilet tent
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Day4 06:06hr Last day campsite
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Day4 06:41hr Francis applied medicated cream on yingxiu's bruises...
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Day4 06:42hr Yingxiu's bruised legs...
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Day4 07:42hr Set off after breakfast.... Near end of our trek...
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Day4 07:47hr Still some slippery slope during descend... Loose sand/ gravels on the...
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Day4 07:52hr Rinjani viewed from Savannah.
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Day4 07:58hr
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Day4 08:05hr
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Day4 08:05hr Crossing bridge (sign of back to civilization)...
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Day4 08:06hr
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Day4 08:07hr Young porter
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Day4 08:30hr Open plain of savannah
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Day4 08:30hr
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Day4 08:39hr Group photos
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Day4 08:41hr
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Day4 09:03hr Old abandoned bridge
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Day4 09:03hr
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Day4 09:03hr Savannah plain
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Day4 09:56hr My favourite subject? My boots? Hhm... Am just trying to show the change in...
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Day4 10:18hr Green tomatoes Tomato farm belong to Itra's (our guide) friend. Itra bought a big bag of...
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Day4 10:26hr Final rest point. We break for lunch here before we go back to civilization.
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Day4 11:43hr Local farmers planting padi and shallots (onions) at Semablun
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Day4 11:48hr Itra and baby son. Our guide happens to reside at this village (at end of our...
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Day4 11:49hr Onions (Bawang Merah)
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Day4 11:50hr
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Day4 12:01hr One last group photos. Thanks to our guide (Itra) and porters's patience,...
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Day4 12:02hr
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Day4 12:04hr Our transport to send all of us back to Senaru Village. Kind of dangerous...
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Day4 12:04hr The return journey took around two hours drive
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Day4 15:16hr Our no-frill hotel in Senaru Village. Slightly better than our Day0 hotel.
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Day4 16:34hr
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Day4 16:44hr Our young porter and his beloved motorcycle. See the transformation?
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Day4 16:44hr
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Day4 19:31hr Dinner at John's place
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Day4 20:32hr Itra monkeying around. He was bringing another group up Rinjani again...
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Day5 06:24hr Senaru Village Day break at Senaru Village
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Day5 06:24hr Senaru Village Day break at Senaru Village
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Day5 06:25hr Senaru Village View from our hotel
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Day5 06:34hr Senaru Village Flowers at hotel
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Day5 06:43hr Senaru Village Rinjani view from hotel
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Day5 06:46hr Senaru Village
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Day5 06:50hr Local child. Probably just woke up.
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Day5 09:33hr Watrefall The biggest waterfall. We went to only one waterfall. Water is cold! Nice.
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Day5 09:51hr Waterfall
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Day5 09:59hr Trek back to Traditional Village from waterfall
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Day5 11:03hr Traditional Village.
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Day5 11:04hr
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Day5 11:12hr Replica of Crater lake and Baby Volcano
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Day5 11:05hr Young boy whom is taken in by John. He helped to guide us for waterfall and...
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Day6 06:19hr Puri Senggigi hotel. Still a bit run down. Senggigi beach was a bit let down...
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Day6 14:36hr On way back from Gili Trwangan. The snockering session wasn't as good as...
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Day7 13:18hr Pottery factory on the way to Mataram
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Day7 13:21hr
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Day7 13:21hr
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Day7 13:24hr Bamboo weaving
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