Mount Rinjani Trekking In Lombok

Mount Rinjani Trekking begins in Senaru Lombok, a small mountainside village at the base of Indonesia’s second-largest active volcano, which is a whopping 3,726 meters above sea level. Senaru is the main hub for anyone wishing to take on the Mount Rinjani challenge. The Mount Rinjani adventure began early morning when a driver and our guide met us at the homestay in Senaru to take us to the starting point. We piled into the back of his route and drove through some villages for around an hour before arriving at the official entrance office of Mount Rinjani National Park. With a clear view of Mount Rinjani in the distance, I was anxious to see what surreal landscapes laid ahead. The first three hours of the trek were quite mellow, and some thick fog made its way up the mountainside, cooling us down with its breeze. We stopped to rest for an hour while the porters were quick to whip up a big serving of nasi goreng for lunch! It was a further three hours of trekking through some slightly harder terrain before reaching the Mount Rinjani crater rim. This is where we set up camp for one night. Well, by we I mean the porters since they insisted on setting up our tents and preparing dinner for us! We wandered down a ridge trail to find a good viewpoint for sunset overlooking Mount Rinjani and we were spoilt with an incredible view of the lake and another volcano inside the lake – volcano inception! #summervacation#hikingtrails#urbanexplorer