INDONESIA -- I slept three hours before I stepped out of my hotel into the chilly night air; still tired but anxious for the long hike ahead. It was almost midnight, and our tour group was about to ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

We never thought we would find ourselves hiking to the center of an active volcano on the island of Java at two in the morning. But there we were, doing exactly that, along with our tour guide, five ...

Java isn’t just Indonesia’s most populated island – it’s a playground for some of the world’s most awe-inspiring volcano experiences. From Mount Merapi’s glowing lava to Mount Bromo’s sunrise ...

It has been more than 64 years since Mount Ijen last erupted, but the volcano is still very much alive, and it is being mined by some of the toughest men in the world. They begin work shortly after ...

Visitors looking up at Kawah Ijen, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, are treated to a sight not often seen in the rest of the world: electric-blue rivers streaming out from underneath the ...

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.