A brief stroll at Cemoro Lawang, a small village on the Tengger Crater’s edge where we were staying for three nights during our Bromo trip in November 2009. It’s a pretty scenic place to walk around with a bit of European valleys feel…
Cemoro, or Cemara, literally means pine/fir/casuarina in Indonesian; in this case it’s probably referring to casuarina which is native to this geographical region. There’s relatively plentiful of casuarina trees here; seemed like casuarina and spring onions were the only plants that grew well in this volcanic area.
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[...] up was Cemoro Lawang, the mountain village at the base of the Bromo Tengger Semeru craters. We arrived to an [...]