20-22. August Lombok "Mointaineers don't like Pancake for breakfirst"

 

I just meet two girls in the boat to lombok...they did already fixed their trip to Mount Rinjani... the second highest vulcano in Indonesia...

So I  hadn't a drive to Senaru yet...the starting point and village in the mountains... so I jumped of the boat with them and in their drivers car..
Next step: 1.000.000 Rupihas on the table and the booking for 3 day-hiking was fixed!
I just did't realise what a height of 2000 meters are...Sarah and Minna didn't know at all...

The next day: pancake for breakfirst...
Then walking throught rice fields...porters are humping our food, tents and sleeping bags. Almost 40 Kilos each!
Later we wonder about their condition! On flipflops!

During 8 Hours of the trip I fall back...beeing the last on track...two couples from bavaria take the mountain easy.
I deal with the devil and start to do my own thing, my rhythem, my way... climbing alone...over hours...guide is on ramadan,
weaker than me he stays behind...

 

Always in my mind: "Do you feel this fucking point of weakness you dreamed of to overcome?"

  

I got it!!!! Reach the top...unable to describe...

Second day...Group stands up at 3 to reach the summit for the sunrise...I didn't .
Then down to the krater lake. The group is weak. The 1000 meter for watching the sunrise killed their legs. I'm fine.
My camera strikes...so thats why I stop the post here...

On the second day we climbed 1000 Meters down to swin in disgusting green particeled hot springs and the last day we climp up the krater wall again to run down for 6 hours right throuh the jungel...to our starting village.
Never walked with two girls in the same age as me, like old women to our dinnerplace. Crazy muscels... Can't get just one step up!
This post takes 40minutes to realise...so be kind and don't look after all my faults and the missing details. I finish when I'm back in this cold Berlin!