Comments on: PPLH and Gunung Penanggungan http://deangeomatics.com/blog/2010/07/pplh-and-gunung-penanggungan/ Mountains, Volcanoes, and Travel Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:48:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://deangeomatics.com/blog/2010/07/pplh-and-gunung-penanggungan/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Andy Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:48:32 +0000 http://deangeomatics.com/blog/?p=629#comment-741 Hi Simon, PPLH is a nice place and Gunung Penanggungan is quite an easy climb and you get some good views. I would recommend it, but perhaps only if you are heading to Surabaya from Malang. PPLH have a website (http://pplhselo.or.id/) but can be a bit slow on email. They can arrange drivers and picked us up and dropped us off from Surabaya for a fair price. I assume you are spending a few days around Bromo and the Sea of Sand - entering from the Malang side is a good idea and there are 4-wheel drive "tours" leaving Malang. You also get great views of Semeru this way. If you stay in Cemoro Lawang on the caldera rim, best to stay a few kilometers downhill since there was a lot of the fresh ash being whipped up by the wind and dumped on places right at the edge. I bet PPLH would pick you up from Cemoro Lawang. Good luck! Andy Hi Simon, PPLH is a nice place and Gunung Penanggungan is quite an easy climb and you get some good views. I would recommend it, but perhaps only if you are heading to Surabaya from Malang. PPLH have a website (http://pplhselo.or.id/) but can be a bit slow on email. They can arrange drivers and picked us up and dropped us off from Surabaya for a fair price.
I assume you are spending a few days around Bromo and the Sea of Sand – entering from the Malang side is a good idea and there are 4-wheel drive “tours” leaving Malang. You also get great views of Semeru this way. If you stay in Cemoro Lawang on the caldera rim, best to stay a few kilometers downhill since there was a lot of the fresh ash being whipped up by the wind and dumped on places right at the edge. I bet PPLH would pick you up from Cemoro Lawang. Good luck! Andy

]]> By: Simon Summers http://deangeomatics.com/blog/2010/07/pplh-and-gunung-penanggungan/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Simon Summers Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:20:18 +0000 http://deangeomatics.com/blog/?p=629#comment-740 Hi there Andy and Gill, Enjoyed reading your short trip report above covering your break in Penanggungan. We're travelling to Indonesia in March/April and contemplating spending a couple of days arounf Gunung Penanggungan. Would you recommend it? Would appreciate it if you might be able to send me contact details for PPLH or any drivers/transport in the region. We hope to rent a car in Malang and drive over there. Many thanks, Simon Hi there Andy and Gill,

Enjoyed reading your short trip report above covering your break in Penanggungan. We’re travelling to Indonesia in March/April and contemplating spending a couple of days arounf Gunung Penanggungan. Would you recommend it?

Would appreciate it if you might be able to send me contact details for PPLH or any drivers/transport in the region. We hope to rent a car in Malang and drive over there.

Many thanks, Simon

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