Bali Fresque

Here the truism of the day: traveling with young kids is different than traveling without.

For young kids novelty is part of their daily life. Everyday new stuffs are being thrown at them like nobody’s business. It’s when adult that novelty become a more difficult experience, since it has to be filtered by all previous experiences to assess the situation or relate to own being. When young, the assessment has been outsourced to all adults around in the hope that the experience will not disturb too much your cognitive experience, and the focus is only on the experience itself without judgement or reservation.

Young Balinese Kids
Watching Sunset Before a Dance Performance
Near Seminyak

Adults on the other hand have to think and understand the experience throw kids’ eyes and their own at the same. This schizophrenia is usually deceptive yet part of the parenting experience. Why young kids don’t like what we think is best for them?

Fishermen  around Nusa Dua beach

On the other hand, kids do not worry too much of what the experience is and also of the others’ experience (actually just enough to not be trigger the unhappy feeling). Tension rises when too much fun is associated with no value in the experience. Why young kids don’t like watching this beautiful sunset?

Sunset Picture Taking near Seminyak

It doesn’t matter in reality whom had experienced what and what were the feeling or passion felt at the time, because for each side of the equation the unknown is constant and the solution is obvious: do without under-appreciating. Young kids should play and parent should have fun. But why young kids don’t like eating this beautiful meal?

Bali Addresses

Away from the now overdeveloped Seminyak, Bali has other places that propose enough bargain for your bucks. Petitenget, Umalas, and northern Canggu offer the best of the Island of the Gods: shopping, restaurants, and nice hotels next to the beach. To build on the previous blog entries (Part1, Part2 and Part3) here are some more addresses to keep an eye on when next in Bali.

	Puri Madawi [www.madawi.com]Located [map] at the end of a dirt road in Petitenget, Madawi is a group of 10 or so bungalow/suite rooms with a shared garden and small pool to relax. Bungalows have a Balinese outdoor bathrooms, and Suites are on two levels with a net above the queen-size bed.
	Rascals Kuta Square, and Kuta Bali; Tel. +62(0)361 754 253. Rascals has some very interesting batik sets with matching sarong on the very high end of the price scale. Expensive but nice.
	Lucy's Batik [www.lucysbatik.com] Jl. Raya Basangkasa No.88, Seminyak; Tel. +62(0)361 7951275 / 736098. Authentic batik at a reasonable price for all handmade clothing lovers. A must stopover in your shopping delight in Bali.
	Along Jl. Raya Kerobokan, one can find furniture warehouses where teak is the new tic. Among them Ikat Art Galeri is one of the most impressive in size, less so in quality.
	Youri’s Art Shop Jl. Lesmana 105, Oberoi Kuta, Bali; Tel. +62(0)361 731122. This shop in the middle of a restaurant strip is one of the most authentic yet affordable antique shop in the area. Usually filled with old masks, crafts and statues in disarray, the warehouse has also some nice pieces of old furniture from all over Indonesia. Don't hesitate to pop your head in the back of the shop to see their impressive collection of ancient doors and baby beds.
	Ganesha Bookshop [www.ganeshabooksbali.com] Jl. Petitenget 888, Kerobokan (@Biku Restaurant). The bookstore was established in 1986 as a small family business by Ketut Yuliarsa and his wife Anita Scheeres. Ketut Yuliarsa is a well known writer and actor/musician in Bali and together with Anita had the desire to see a bookshop in Bali that would cater to the needs of all the avid readers, collectors and researchers who passed through Ubud, Bali.
	BIN house [www.binhouse.com] - Warung Made II, Jl. Raya Seminyak, Kuta, Bali 80361 - International Departure Lounge - Discovery Shopping Mall, #MG30, Jalan Kartika Plaza, Kuta, Bali 80361 - other places around the world as well. Bin House cloths are one of a kind creation. A piece of Bin House cloth may take many months, sometimes even a year to finish. Individual pieces of fine silk, adorned with intricate motifs, and displaying a harmony of colors, have been the heart of the the Bin House line. In the last 20 years, traditional techniques of cloth making have been revived and combined with modern approach to produce such beautiful cloth. Hand-woven, hand-dyed, and hand finished, these individual pieces are a result of great dedication and care. One of the best batik shop I ever seen.
	Biku [www.bikubali.com] Jl. Raya Petitenget no.888, Seminyak, Bali 80571. Restaurant, bookstore, tea house, tarot booth ... everything one can think is there in Biku to satisfy the never ending stream of visitors. Food is fantastic and there is room for many visits to finish the never-ending menu. A place to visit many times in your visit in the Island of the Gods.
	Chandi [www.chandibali.com]. Chandi is a haute cuisine Indonesian restaurant in the heart of Seminyak. You will need many days and visit to grasp the full length of their menu. The New York City’s most awarded and talked about chef (Nobu, Spice Market, Perry Street and Budhakan) came to Bali to create a Gastronomic Twist on Indonesian Cuisine using Organic Spices and Greens, mostly sourced through Big Tree Farms of Ubud. A must stop over on your food exploration in Bali.
	Other place that need some attention could be the Warung Sulawesi [Jl. Petitenget 200Y, Bali] where the back garden is suppose to offer the best traditional Indonesian cuisine in the neighborhood, but also Cafe Bali [Jl. Petitenget 45] and Trattoria Pizza [website] were always seemingly full with tourists and local expats. Gourmet Cafe [website] or The Tuck Shop/The Corner Shop [Jl. Kayu Aya Petitenget] looked nice and can offer light breakfasts/lunches for hesitant visitors and expats in the search of western food.
	The Living Room [website], La Lucciola, or Hu'u [Jl. Oberoi, Petitenget] have found a magic formula: the restaurant-bar-club. Depending on the time of your visit, you can enjoy a cocktail before a meal, a swim or a dance ... open late until the wee hours.
	Potato Head Beach Club Bali [website] is a competitor to the famous Ku De Ta with a small twist into it. This place is a family place with alcohol, loud music, green space and a swimming pool overlooking the beach. If KuDeTa was for the young, single and beautiful, then Potato Head is for the almost young, already parent and still beautiful.
	Now for those who do not want loud music and expensive bill but still want to enjoy the beautiful sunset, a better place would be to walk along Jl. Batubelig, and hop in any local warung/bar to watch the sun setting above the sea. It's a 5 minutes walk North by the beach of the large hotels in Petitenget (The W, Oberoi, The Legian ...). It will be the same sun at a fraction of the price.

For those who want to find out what's going on in Bali, a quick look at BeatMag [www.beatmag.com] will save them some precious hours of online research.

Balinese Delicacies

Bali is said to be "the island of the Gods", I would agree with this statement as it makes all its visitors less divine persons than heavenly happy people.

Tana Lot Temple

In an island more spiritual than religious, temples are everywhere, under different forms and for different reasons. Family temple in the back yard or in the front of the shops, community temple in the center of the villages or historical temple (like Tana Lot Temple for example) in amazing and astonishing place in the island, all have a purpose and a place in the Balinese society.

Temple after Ceremony

They could be use as one of the nine directional strikes, for life ceremonies (wedding, burial) or just to appease the devils and gods of the island for a prosperous day, all temples have a reason and the daily offers in the small banana leaves square boxes, filled with colorful flower, holy waters and perfumed incense stick are there to reminds each and every visitors that the island had been bless by the gods at every step of the way.

Food at Hotel Tugu

Bali has also been touched by the cooking Gods. Most street corners have a local eatering (Warung) where more often locals than tourists mix for a quick snack on a wooden bench. Sharing a meal or sometime even the physical plate is the important time to share stories and relax before re-exploring the island.

Dreamland Beach

Bali is an Indonesian island surrounded by coral reefs. Beaches in the south tend to have white sand while those in the north and west have black sand due to volcanic activities. What is surprising in Bali is that depending on what you like doing (snorkeling, sunbathing, surfing) you can always find the right spot for your activity, you just have to go where the elements are setting the stage for your convenience today. Too windy in the West for scuba diving, move to the North; too flat for surfing in the East move to the South.

Girls Smiling

Paradise would not be without smiling faces, and Balinese have been blessed by the smiling Gods. Each and every inhabitants of the island has been graduated from smile school, and the large smiling banana is given for anything and everything: a picture, a hello, a joke. Nothing is good enough for not smiling.

Rice Paddy

The island is also land of multiple seasons all at once: from the cold night at the Mount Agung peaking at 3,142 m, to the 75km of the Ayung River sleeping over the Sea of Bali, the island is giving more opportunities to enjoy life than any long or short vacation could sustain.

Monkey Alley

When all is put together into one divine place like Bali, visitor could only enjoy their paradisiacal vacation. Just wondering how would that be to be less of a tourist and more of a local.

Sunset at Uluwatu Temple

Bali is truthly the island of all the Gods.

Bali Addresses

[[Hotel]]

• Teka-Teki House
  Jl Drupadi 1, Gg Puri Kubu #23, Seminyak
  Phone +62 81353 204 204 , +62 3619 285 828 | www.tekatekibali.com
  
  
  From their website to their warm Goodby farewell, everything is great and unique at Teka-Teki House. The B&B experience is much closer to going to a friend's house than going to any accommodation complex that flourish along the coast. Everything is there to make you feel at ease. Ideally placed in Seminyak, the house is quiet, clean, friendly, spacious and comfortable. It's one of these secret places to give only to your best friends and tell them to not tell anyone (which of course they immediately spray around). No wonder why Teka-Teki House is rated #1 B&B on TA. The place to sleep at Seminyak for a quiet and friendly vacation, especially if you like banana pancake.
  
  
• Desamuda Village
  Jl. Raya Basangkasa No 30A
  Seminyak Kuta , Bali- Indonesia
  Ph +62 361 733 088 | www.desamuda.net
  US$ rates, US$ service for US$ rooms. Could be an alternative stay in Seminyak if you have of course ......... US$.
  
  
• Hotel Tugu
  Jl. Pantai Batu Bolong, Canggu Beach, Bali-Indonesia
  Tel. +62 361 731 701, or +62 8786 1838 680 | www.tuguhotels.com
  No need to present it anymore. The missing link between serenity and earth. A detached and distant place from the rest of the island. Must stay ... if you can.
  

[[Restaurant]]

• Made's Warung
  Jalan Raya Seminyak - Bali - 80361
  phone +62 361 753039 | www.madeswarung.com
  
  
  
  Times is long gone when Made's Warung was a road side eatering. The dirt road has grown to become the shopping highway, so be the place. Established in 1969, it is now a social eating and meeting venue for locals, expats and tourist alike. The food is clean, copious and safely prepare for an introductory course to the rich and complex Indonesian food. The few stores around the court yard propose expensive but sophisticated and high quality items for the visitors. Tango demonstrations at night for those who like watching while eating.
  
  
• Cafe Moka
  Jalan Seminyak
  Seminyak, Indonesia
  phone +62 (0)36 173 1424 |
  The now everywhere Cafe Moka is an official institution in the touristy spot of the island, but will still offer the western breakfast and pastries you want to have for a quick start surfing day.
  
  
• Aroma
  Kedonganan Beach, Jimbaran Bay Kuta - Bali
  Phone : (0361)708481 | www.aromabumbubali.com
  It's quite difficult to choose from the Jimbaran restaurant strip the one to sit from and watch the sunset while having seafood, but Aroma is right at the entrance of the main road and as a formula that works well. Choose the sea food by kilos and the way you want to be it cooked. Few minutes later it will come with some seafood spinach and rice to your table. The local Mariachi, beers, and grilled corn will entertain you if ever been bored. Expensive but safe and efficient.
  
  
• Ku-De-Ta
  Jalan Hotel The Oberoi
  Kuta, Indonesia
  Phone (0)36 173 6969 | www.kudeta.net
  Beautiful people watching other beautiful people. This Easton Ellision place is the epicenter of the watching been watched game, where the white dressed expats and party goers meet the local tribes. Service is as great as the view, but food less important. Bring your sunglasses if you want to be seen.
  
  
• Mozaic
  Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Gianyar - Bali 80571, Indonesia .
  Phone & Fax. (+62 361) 975 768 | www.mozaic-bali.com
  You only have 4 menu choices: the classic, the vegetarian, the chef's recommendation, and the chef's surprise. No matter which one you choose from the 8 menu course will be a delicacies adventure for your taste bud, mixing common ground yet subtil flavors with intricate local ingredients. You should bring an empty stomach along with your check-book (and credit-card ... and you extra cash) when you stop at Mozaic for a great food experience. One advice thus, book in advance!
  

[[Shopping]]
There is countless shops in Bali to satisfied any professional shoppers, even the more advance one. You can shop until you drop on your knees if you want, and the truth of today will not be the one of tomorrow. Now if you engage in a shopping expedition be prepare for a rough battle with blood, sweet and tears (of joy).



Among some of the interesting shops seen in Seminyak

• Lucy's Batik
  Jl. Raya Basangkasa No.88, Seminyak - Kuta - Bali
  Tel. +62(361) 7951275 or 736098 | www.lucysbatik.com
  Vast variety of batik choice with interesting design and pattern.
  
• Just Jen's @ Made's Warung
  Jalan Raya Seminyak - Bali - 80361
  phone +62 361 753039 | www.madeswarung.com
  The Jewelry collection is one of the best designed seen in the island.
• The Bali Antique Shop
  Address | www.bali-antique-shop.com
  With a couple of spot in the shopping distict, The Bali Antique Shop proposes fine and interesting items at no so interesting price anymore. For rich wallet or enriching experience.
  

You can skip the 3 villages (Wood Carving, Painting, Gold & Silver) where prices are inflated and design locally touristic. Bargaining as well as smiles are mandatory (should be able to divide the price by 3).

[[Art]]
If you have one gallery to go to in Bali, you should stop at

• Neka Gallery in Ubud (Jalan Raya Campuhan , from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. Phone +62 361 975034 | www.nekagallery.com). The gallery was built in 1966 by Mr. Suteja Neka, an art connoisseur and his wife, Mrs. Srimin Suteja in the then small village called Ubud. Still at the same place, the gallery has outgrown the original rooms, but still proposes fantastic paintings from all art works by Balinese artists, Indonesian artists, Asian artists as well as European born artists such as Arie Smit. Their paintings was inspired by natural beauty, people and culture of Bali.

[[Transport]]
A good driver make all the difference between seeing Bali and driving through Bali.

• Arya was able to provide not only a safe driving experience, but also was knowledgeable on where, what, when and how to do thing around the island. His patience was as good as his driving experience: impeccable. Made Arya, HP 081 338 537 036 | +62 81 338 537 036

[[ToDo]]
In whichever order you like: Sunset watching, Temples visiting, (Uluwatu & Tanah Lot), Eating, Shopping, Smiling, Sunbathing, Walking, Drinking, Dancing, Sleeping, Resting ... no wonder why Bali is called the island of gods.



If you want more Bali addresses from previous' Mintalo trip, follow the [[click]]

Bali-land

Bali has been entertaining for centuries a colorful imaginary for apprentice pirates, bedroom travelers and other daydreamer adventurers, and frankly speaking it will be difficult to give justice to such a beautiful and welcoming place on the planet in a couple of sentences.

But let me try anyway.

Check Players on the beach

First of all it is an island stuck between the big Lombok and the bigger Java along the equator, and since the early days of the Javanese empire its inhabitants have developed a privilege relationship with the surrounding water. The interesting thing is that Bali has no major waterways, and apart from the seaside temple of Tanah Lot, the natural borders are not yet used by the tourism industry, leaving visitors to explore the island as it used to be and as it should be : by foot walking along the beach.

Refreshing delights

One might add that the Kuta resort is a scar on the face of Balinese culture, but I would argue the opposite. Moving from an agriculture base society three decades ago to advocating its own culture, the island managed to stay intact yet changing in its interaction with the world. Of course, (mass) tourism has a major impact on the island, but Bali managed to deal with it on its own way : by parking most of the visitors in a small place, down south, away from the most interesting places of the island.

Begining of the Sunset

The destination is most well known for being a surfer paradise, although I would say that the island proposes the most delightful experiences in Asia only if one can escape from the resort and lost self around for new adventures.

End of the Sunset

In a shape of a large champagne cocktail glass, Bali offers a large playground for new and interesting ways of vacationing (Dance, Music, Painting, Architecture, Natural Park, Diving Sites, Volcanoes and Food).

It’s up to you to drink that till you drop.

Bali, addresses

Hostel

• Raja Garden (Jalan Abimanyu, Seminyak)
  This quiet place at the back of a greeny garden and with a olympic swimming pool is the right spot for any backpacker who is concious of it own confort. Nice pick at a reasonable pricec for the location.
• Bamboo Bed and Breakfast (Jalan Legian)
  This lean hostel seems to have a lot of press and is heavyly loaded with surfers, in case if you have to stay in Legian or Kuta.

Restaurants

• Gado Gado (Jl Dhyana Pura No 99, Seminyak)
  Gado Gado Restaurant is one of the most exclusive places in Bali, by its location, right on the beach dinning, by its style's cuisine and by the high service. It's the a good spot to enjoy a late breakfast, a nice lunch by the sea, a few drinks while watching the sunset or a romantic candlelit dinner under the stars on the island of the gods.
• Cafe Moka (Jl Raya Legian, Seminyak)
  This french bakery offers french pastry and breakfast to the local and travel community at rather western expensive price. Too bad that food did n not match the bill expectation.

Turquoise Lake

I was not prepared to collect a story like that during my trip to Indonesia, but I am glad I walk with Suleiman the miner, on the way down to the turquoise lake.

Strating Point

After our Mont Bromo expedition, we were waiting for the local bus to pick us up to go to Bali and its well deserved beaches, when the tour operator started talking about the plateau. He did warn us about the beautifulness of the place but did not mention at all the collective effort (or pain) shared by the miners in the dangerous sulfuric habitat. He just said that it was the most beautiful place in the region and we could walk on the same path as the miners. He also mentioned that they were doing a hard work and he would not want to do this type of job himself. Well … there are so many jobs I don’t want to do myself, I though it was one of them … but I never imagine to be so close to the (re)action of the pain of work that I saw that day.

Ijen Plateau

The next morning, we started at the end of a peaceful misty road, early in the morning as usual in this grandiose land of the majestic actives volcanoes. It seems that people in East Java enjoy waking up at 3 AM to start their day at 5 AM. Not sure why they are so set on the Japanese time zone … but anyway our driver left us at 6ish at the feet of the trail and wished us a good luck that should had been taken more carefully.

Yellow dots on the trail

The pleasant walk across the forest only lasted a merely three minutes, and the trail changed suddenly into an abrupt trek that I can only imagine Nepalese would delight themselves over a cup of tea early in the morning.

Carriers

I was walking at the best of my capacities crossing sporadically groups of miners, with flip flops on their feet and empty baskets on their shoulder. They usually asked for a cigarette or small cash in exchange of a picture or a smile. My poor physical condition did not allow me to follow their steps. They never waited for me and jumped right back to their early exercise, living me behind fighting with the extra pounds that I carry around my belly for quite some months now.

Sweat & Swearing

Laughs from around the corner gave me some hope that the end of my morning exercice was coming to an end soon, but the small hut was in fact a stop over on the way down the hill for carriers to weight their loads. Carriers were making a stop and exchanged their loads, smoking a cigarette or discussing over a splash of water. 75 kilos on average was what they were caring on their shoulder. More or less my weight (if only these extra pounds …) and half my size.

Digging the mineral with a cloth in the mouth

The smell of the yellow sulfuric stones was everywhere along the trail, and it was not long before we could finally see the top of mountain. Like magic, trees move out of the way to let me contemplate a large greenish lake at the bottom of a smoky yellow crater. The early morning light was reflecting on the surface of the lake as well as dancing trough the smoky cloud coming from the crater. The scenery was wild and impressive.

The Supervisor

Suleiman was singing along the way to his destination when I met him. He stopped over and started engaging the conversation, showing me his atrophied shoulder muscle, his scar from a previous day way back in time and explaining me his daily routine: three back and forth, starting at 6 in the morning and finishing at dark, even if it rains.

Human dots in the fume

On top of the volcano he pulled me on the side and explained me what everyone was doing. The yellow moving dots on the trail were in reality the carriers who pull out of the mine over 70 kilos each time of raw sulfuric mineral. You also have the digger who breaks the mineral in the sulfuric mist with his hand and a piece of cloth in his mouth for only protection against the killer fume. And you have the boss who watches everyone.

Even smaller human dots

That was Suleiman who showed me the best place to watch the smoke coming out from the bottom of the volcano, who lead the way on the path down and who translated the joked about this crazy foreigners who want to see the entrance of Hell.

Sulfuric lake

Right at the bottom of the volcano, close to the green lake, looking at the yellow mountain was dangerous yet fascination for me. I could not stop myself shooting pictures trying to get closer and closer to the fuming action. The sulfuric mist which sometimes was eating alive all human form and sometime spilling them out, had golden reflection on the lake and made me thing of a live animal with which the miners were fighting against.

Walk back

During a few minutes, the lake opened itself under my eyes, delivering a loud and sunny panoramic view, melting acidic greens, yellows and blues all together. My fascination for the aesthetic of the scene was at its maximum, I could not let go my camera.

Why is it that the most dangerous jobs have to be in the most beautiful places?

From atop

The walk back was even more painful, and I could measure the exact amount pain the place was taking away from them for each step forward they were making. The volcano was echoing all the swearing that the Suleimans of the plateau were throwing at each other to give themselves strength and courage, and also a sense of purpose why they were doing all of these for a merely U$20 a day.

Panoramic view

His name is Suleiman from Indonesia, a sulfur miner at Ijen Plateau. They are hundred of thousand like him across the planet. His name could have been Pedro, a silver miner at Potosi in Bolivia, or John, a daemon miner in Liberia or even Silva, a gold miner in Brazil.

I am glad I spend some time with one of them, on the way down to the yellow lake.

Ijen Plateau, address

Hotel

• Catimore Homestay (Jl. Jend. A Yani 32 Jl. Bondowoso, Java, Indonesia)
  Don't even think you can find it by yourself at the end of the road, but this strange hostel in a tiny village offers a swimming pool, all you can drink coffee and small beds for you to lie over before waking up for a tour to the plateau or hot springs.
  
  The dinner there was average and shared with all the wild insects surrending the unique light in the valley. Should be the best around ... although we arrived late at night and strated early in the morning.

Picture

• Mitchell Kanashkevich is a photo-journalist, and made few years ago a photo reportage on the miners of the Ijen Plateau. His webiste and photo albums are remarkably well illustrated with fantastic stories about the plateau, and other places in Asia. Somehow he is redefining the very nostalgic notion of journalism.
  
• Thanks to J., who pointed me out another virtual place, here another blog story about the Plateau. Ulet Ifansasti’s blog entry depicts the poor working conditions the mine.
  
• According to Softpedia , it's the world's largest Acid Lake of the planet, and probably one of the most difficult to work at: "In 1976, 50 people were surprised inside the crater by an enormous bubble of sulfuric dioxide, which, after raising the surface of the lake, killed 11 of them by asphyxiation. The local people said it was the sacrifice asked by the volcano for offering its riches. "

Moonland

A small step for a man, but a giant leap (out of my bed) for my kind of mind.




It all started extremely early in the morning, around 3:30 AM or so in a cold and freezing night. The extraction from my cold and humid bed was in fact a salvation on the road of sickness. I don’t know why all beds at the lodge were all humid (dryer might have broken) but it was the consistent complain that I heard in our 4*4 road tour to the over expected Mont Bromo, the brochure highlight volcano cumulating at 2,392m above sea level.



What we discovered was in fact a sea of loud tourist concentrated on top of the Mount Penanjakan (2770m) our first stop of the program, the other volcano mountain from which you can observe the massive Tengger Caldera. We were hundred of tourists squeezed on top of the observatory to see the hypothetical paper guarantied sunrise. It did not really matter in fact that we only witness that morning the sunrise of mass human enthusiasm over a cloudy sky, because what we encounter later on was a fantastic experience with magazine pictures on our second and last stop.



After our cloudy sunrise, we found our way back to our 4*4 in the middle of hundred of them and drove down the volcanic craters. The car dropped us 3-km away from the foot of Mount Bromo, leaving us to the ultimate entertaining experience of walking among horses, clouds and loud tourists. From the Hindu temple a steep path of 250 recently arranged steps leads to the edge of the crater and a precarious meter-wide ledge from where to gaze into the volcano, leading finally to one of the most amazing landscape in East Java.



From atop of the Mont Bromo, one can observe the inside of the caldera, rightly named the Laut Pasir (Sea of Sand), covered with fine dark grey volcanic sand and the overall effect is mind blowing, when compared to the lush green valleys around, the cloudy white blanket surrounding the friendly volcanoes and the raw and unhealthy white sulphurous smoke coming out of the Mont Bromo.



The giant Hindu temple at the entrance of the moon landscape at the feet of Mt. Bromo looks ridiculously fragile in comparison to the fearful natural force that radiates from the perfectly 10 km round caldera. Nature imposed its respect and no one should be foolish enough to think differently.

That day, “Earth: was my final frontier”