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Welcome to Azimuth Adventure Travel Ltd 's website , a foreign-run adventure travel company . Based in Indonesia, it offers all-inclusive adventure vacation packages. As a tour operator specialized in trekking, volcano and wild adventures, it operates private guided tours (hiking, trekking, mountain & volcano climbing) aroundYogyakarta and across Indonesia. Azimuth Adventure Travel Ltd is the sole adventure actually bound travel company operating here as a receptive agency. As such, it is the right local tour operator to organize your hiking, trekking, volcano, cruising or diving adventures in Indonesia.

Trekking in BALI! Extract of the newspaper of one our customers Monday, June 11 My eight trekking companions – all females! – and myself were warmly welcomed last night by our French speaking guide, Nyoman (Paul for close friends). After a night’s rest in a beach hotel, we are ready to take on this popular 15-day trek across Bali. We have been excited about the tour ever since registering for it with a local tour operator. At midday, we leave for Candi Dasa. Our first trek takes us to Tirtagangga, through the village of Bali Aga in Tenganan. On the way, our first stop is Klungkung. On a tour of the former court-house, we experience our first chill of apprehension as we are told that in bygone days, thieves had their hands chopped off while rapists lost their penises! Ouch! We will have to exercise caution over the next two weeks! […] Thursday, June 14 We have now been trekking for 3 days on the lower slopes of Mount Agung, the highest and most sacred mountain of the island. However, we are only now beginning our climb up its slopes. Around Selat, the breathtaking landscapes are mainly of rice fields or fields covered with edelweiss. The exotic allure of the land and people draw us on in eager anticipation. As we trek through several traditional villages, the children, who rarely have the chance to see foreigners («bulays», as they are referred to by Nyoman, our guide), often grab us by the hand to drag us either to their house or to simply walk part of the way with us. Their parents are close by, either working their rice fields or cutting lava stones…[…] Wednesday, June 20 Belimbing. We have almost finished crossing the island and, for the last two days, our trek took us along the ocean—a deep emerald hue—with heavy purple clouds moving overhead at times, darkening the Balinese rice fields. The sounds of flowing water in the irrigation system have been the background of our consciousness throughout the trip, like relaxation music, filling us with a sense of calm and contentment. It even dulls our awareness of the farmers raucous fending off of the birds that pick at their crops… Thursday, June 21 Our journey ends in Ubud, and – to crown an amazing trip – we have the opportunity to observe a Hindu ceremony exclusive to Japanese Buddhists. The devotion of these pilgrims creates an atmosphere of spirituality and reverence—and all of the participants, including us, look on in awe. It was a grand spectacle of colour and a great finale for our trip.

The recent eruption of the Merapi volcano and the fact that it has been active practically ever since must not let us forget that there are other volcanoes in Indonesia . While these volcanoes are not presently in their eruptive phase, they nonetheless present interesting activities to be observed... W e have already approached some of these volcanoes located in Central Java, North Sulawesi and the Siau islands (somewhat further North), and are now offering you the possibility to have a quick look at them . The Semeru volcano , standing 3.676 m above sea level, dominates the island of Java both in height and in activity. It is among the world’s most active and dangerous strato-volcanoes (permanent strombolian activity since 1967, with violent explosions every 25 minutes). On our last visit early last June, it was the seat of an important Hindu ceremony. Indeed, as the most sacred volcano for this religious group, a number of devotions where held from the village of Ranu Pane until its summit, from where various types of offerings (fruits, chicken, a goat and even a cow and its calf) where thrown down its crater… In Sulawesi , thanks to the kindness and cooperation of volcanologists Jimmy and Farid (with the Tomohon observatory), we could approach the 3 most active volcanoes stretching along the Sangihe arc of islands. Geologically, this region is very complex and most interesting in the field of volcanology. It is also the only known place on Earth where to observe the phenomenon called double subduction, or the sinking of one ocean tectonic plate under another similar one. The Moluccas plate, in fact, sinks westward under the Sangihe arc and Eastward under the Halmahera arc. The chain also includes the Lokon and Soputan volcanoes , in the Minahasa area, as well as the Karangetang volcano , on the Api Siau island. The Lokon volcano, undoubtedly the most dangerous among the group, with 70,000 people living around its foot and a crater, Tampaluan, filled with an emerald green lake, is now set at the level 2 state of alert. Soputan , with its proportionally excessive dome, presently shows a threatening plume some 500 m above its summit. Karangetang , and its 5 active summit craters, has been intensely glowing for the last few months. A real danger for the city of Ulu and its 70,000 inhabitants, this volcano produces frequent burning clouds and lahars which, in 2004, split the town in two thus forcing the authorities to evacuate the island on a number of occasions. Please contact us for more information on the Indonesian volcanoes.

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