On top of Mount Agung (3142m) | Via Besakih route | BALI | Sacred Mountain | 10 Hours Non Stop
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Mount Agung is the highest point on the popular island of Bali and holds incredible spiritual significance for the Balinese.
There are two main routes to reach the crater rim, which leaves from different places. If you aim to reach the highest point of Gunung Agung without scrambling, then one needs to depart from Pura Besakih (1,180m), Bali’s most sacred temple.
Pura Besakih route
To reach the summit from Pura Besakih takes approximately 6 hours, and many people climb at night in order to reach the top for sunrise. Estimate six hours for your hike to the summit, which includes 45 minutes of rest time, meaning that you need to start your extremely exhausting but most memorable adventure around midnight. The first 45 minutes will lead you to past vegetable plantations ending at the entrance of the forest (1,316 metres) where the actual fun starts.
For the next three to four hours, a good torch or much better a high quality head light is absolutely essential, as the dense forest prevents any moonlight from penetrating down to the track. The first hour and half is steep but still comfortable and often broken by flatter passages across ridges.
The following two hours are very tough, steep, and often very slippery. Here, one starts to realize why Gunung Agung is without doubt one of the hardest volcanoes in Indonesia to climb, as the path leads straight up towards the summit. At an altitude of 2200 meters, the forest gradually gets less dense, and with it, the path starts to become stonier and often covered by loose gravel, offering an additional challenge. After four hours of hard and strenuous slow climbing, our so-called base camp (2,600 metres) is reached. This is an area that offers very little space for a few tents and is often used by local hikers as a resting point before heading to the summit for the sunrise.
The next section, which is a good 300 metres long, climbs just over 100 metres altitude and is the only part of the entire hike where utmost care needs to be taken. This is the only area where one could fall over a cliff and can get seriously injured. Then, you reach the final cone of the volcano, which is very rocky at the lower section. The last 100 metres before the first summit are not that steep anymore but offer terrific views of the highest point of Gunung Agung, which is about 350 meters ahead to the East. Once again, at this point, extra care must be taken from the often howling trade winds, which can gust up to 100km an hour. The first western summit is actually only 10 metres or less lower than the highest summit.
The final 15-20 minutes along the ridge to the true peak are an absolute joy. By now, the sunrise is only minutes away, and the entire horizon is painted with warm colours. Despite the glory in the distance, one needs to watch every step along the mostly less than one metre wide track. Missing a step could easily result in a disaster as on both sides the mountain falls down several hundred metres. There are only 100 metres left to the summit of a very special mountain, offering some of the best volcanic views in Indonesia. The crater is an impressive 700 metres in diameter.
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We are Mayur, Gayatri, and Om residing in sunny Singapore. Amongst us we have an Indian who grew up in India, a Singaporean ceylonese who spent decade of her life in Australia and lastly our son, a true born citizen of the mixes, half Indian, half ceylonese and very Singaporean.
Our videos mainly consist of mountain climbing trips and some solo journeys but mostly of our family of 3. We thrive with each others company on our road less travelled in our own unique style. We really love off the beaten kind of adventures, eating local food, meeting ethnic tribes, going back in time with some historical sites, and simply getting lost. Being in corporate jobs for daily survival, our dream here is to inspire people to explore this beautiful world and realise that there is more in life than just 9 to 5.
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19 июл 2023
