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KAWAH IJEN

Kawah ijen terletak di Desa Tamansari Kecamatan Glagah Kabupaten Banyuwangi, seluas 2.468 Ha ini berjarak 32 km dari pusat kota. Dengan ketinggian antara 1400 – 2800 dpl taman kawasan kawah ijen ini berhawa sejuk dengan temperature 5-181^o Celcius.

Di lokasi terhadap fasilitas MCK, dan tempat parker yang luas. Daya tarik kawasan ini adalah panorama alam di lingkungan pegunungan dengan puncak merapi, suket, rante yang berkawah  cukup luas. Di puncak ini terdapat kegiatan penambangan belerang dari dalam kaldera dengan kedalaman kawah 100 meter yang hanya dapat diangkut oleh manusia.

The Natural strict nature reserve of ijen crater/Merapi Ungup-ungup is determined under the decree of Dutch Governor General’s No. 46 October 9, 1920 Stbl No. 736 with the area of 2.560 Ha. Minister of agriculture with his decisi6n decree No : 1017/Kpts/Um/12/1981. decided that the width of natural conservation of ijen is 92 Ha. It is as a National Tourism Park.

As a strict nature reserve and tourism park area, Ijen Crater is managed by Alaspurwo National Park, situated about 38 km – west of Banyuwangi Ijen Crater is located 3 km (90 min trip) from Paltuding as the entrance gate. During the tour visitors can enjoy seeing beautiful scenery, Fresh and cold air, some birds and the spread out of edelweiss and Fasinium plants.

Access

Sulfur Formation

Sulfur formation is begun with sulfur content within the earth. It’s steam goes up through the canals on the ground and stiff on the crater lip. This proms has been used by sulfur miner. They distillate the flowing sulfur using pipes which are put on the edge of sulfur canals. At last, liquid sulfur flows out through the pipes. They made a receiving station on the tip of pipes, so they can mine the frozen sulfur.

Flora Fauna

Ijen crater has the ecosystem of sub alphine forest the dominant plants which can be found at the mountain slope like casuarinas tree (casuarinas junguniana) Jamuju (Pondokarpus ibricata), Pasang (Lithocarpus SP) Etc. fasinium (Vasinium tafingiaefolid) and Edelweiss flower (Anaphatis javanica) can be seen at the top of crater. There are several species of  wild animal lives in this strict nature reserve such as deer (cervus timorensis), leopard (panthere narritis), Porcupine (hysteric brachyuran), jungle fowl (gaelus sp), wild boar (Sus scrofa), silverleaf monkey (trachypithecus auratus) Longtailed Macaque (macaca fasciculafis) and badger (mydaus javanicus).

Facilities

At this moment, ranger post, guest house tourist cottage, canteen and lavatory, washing and bathroom are available.

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