I wake up with a start as the car comes to a sudden halt. My guide, Bang Bang, looks at me with a broad grin on his weather-beaten face. “Let’s have some tea and noodles,” he says, pointing to the ...

Climbing down to Kawah Ijen in the early morning hours is like descending through a time portal. Surrounded by sulphur fumes as blue fire ignites, it’s as though you have stepped back into the ...

Explore Kawah Ijen in Indonesia, where blue flames light the night and miners face extreme conditions to harvest sulphur.

Deep down inside Kawah Ijen’s volcanic crater, liquid sulphur exudes from steaming fissures. The surrounding landscape is jagged and lunar, like the setting of a sci-fi movie, and the silence is ...

Murahman, 47, a sulfur miner for 25 years, Nov. 4, 2014. Looming 2,799 m (9,183 ft.) above sea level, Gunung Ijen in Indonesia’s eastern Java is a volcanic wonder that attract hundreds of foreign and ...

The Kawah Ijen, on Indonesia's Java island, recently made news for its breathtaking electric blue flames that portray this majestic natural wonder. A likely misunderstanding of the display as blue ...

Electric-blue molten streams run down the side of an Indonesian volcano, periodically bursting into blue flames that shroud the black night in otherworldly colors. This unique volcano, Kawah Ijen on ...

A DEADLY volcano that spits bright blue lava contains the world’s largest acid lake – capable of melting human skin. Kawah Ijen, is a gargantuan volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia, with its lake ...

The crater inside Kawah Ijen volcano burns blue at night. Photo by Olivier Grunewald Like a neon light show, the crater inside Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia, burns bright blue at night.