One moment
Mountains
Kawah Ijen
A view that stops the walk · Banyuwangi, Indonesia
Photo: Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.7★Rating
5,151Reviews
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Apr–OctBest time
The experience
A crater holding the world's largest acidic lake, where igniting sulphuric gas produces electric-blue flames on midnight hikes — one of only two places on Earth with the phenomenon. Sunrise turns the lake turquoise.
Blue fire at this scale exists almost nowhere else on the planet.
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It's only worth the detour Apr–Oct. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Banyuwangi, Indonesia · East Java. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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