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Kawah Ijen: All in a day’s work

This is Kawah Ijen: a group of remote volcanoes in East Java, Indonesia.  Getting there is not the simplest task: the one road in and out is only really used at night due to safety reasons.  However, this isn’t as backward as it sounds when you take into account the road being so narrow that trees are constantly slapping both sides of your vehicle.  While it is technically a two-way road,  in the day you can’t see oncoming traffic until it’s too late.  At night, headlights…