Mount Bromo Reawakens

Mount Bromo is coughing up ash. Dwellers in the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park and farmers are among those who are suffering the direct consequences of this most recent onslaught of volcanic activity.

December 11, 2000

This year, the plans of holiday-goers to spend their annual Christmas or Lebaran vacation at Bromo will have to be postponed. For who would dare weigh the risk of a mountain crater seething with volcanic activity against the possibility of glimpsing one of Bromo's breathtaking sunrise or sunsets? From last Tuesday, December 5, 2000, Mount Bromo has been seized by volcanic activity, spewing forth smoke and showers of ash.

Since volcanic activity

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