In Reply to: volcano posted by JBRB on Friday, 27. April 2007 at 21:44 Bali Time:
Hi,
It is only a 2 hour drive to Kintamani (the village at the top of the Mt Batur volcano) from the Kuta area . There are a few hotels there to stay if you wish. If you stay there, because it's so high, it's cool so you don't need air conditioning. You can walk to the top of the volcano which takes a few hours, and if you are lucky see the lava (The lava breaks through at different points so it depends on whats happening at the time you go). I've done the walk a few times. I've also also done the 4am walk to the top where you have breakfast at the top. They cook bananas and eggs in the hot ground. The view is spectacular, especially as the sun rises. Most days in the morning there is a thick fog that sits in the volcano crater (It's wide about 5kms across). From the top of the volcano or your hotel you can see down onto the top of the clouds and it is the most amasing sight.
I would recommend staying there once if you have the time.