TIMES MALAYSIA, JAKARTA – You can no longer put an eye to Banyuwangi especially when you talked about its tourist destination. Located in East Java this city has an ultimate beauty of dozens world class level destination. Kawah Ijen or Ijen Crater for say.

Ijen Crater is a famous tourist destination in Banyuwangi. This beautiful crater is around 2.560 hectares long and forming a lake like shape. Hear said the crater was a result of heavy volcano back then.

The Ijen Crater has several kinds of place that the tourist could visit and one of them is the blue fire. This attraction lets the tourist witness the actual blue fire that come at the center of the sulfur mining.

This blue fire will come out only in early in the morning to 5 a.m. once the blue fire vanished, your eyes will be mesmerized after those time, you will see lots of miners taking the sulfur around the crater with bare hand. This sulfur will be turned out into one nice souvenir by their expert hands.

The air temperature at Ijen crater can reach around 10 until 2 degrees Celsius in early in the morning. However, the beautiful view of blue flame and the nice sunrise will be a great deal for this cold weather.

We suggest you stay by this place at 1 a.m. early in the morning to enjoy the beautiful blue fire. Then stay at Kawah Ijen or Ijen Crater of Banyuwangi for more few hours to witness the astonishing sunrise and enjoy the emerald-green water of the lake. (*)