Mount Dempo

wasandi - Mount Dempo (3159 masl) is located in the border province of South Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. To reach the nearest village, first you need to reach the town of Pagar Alam, approximately seven-hour road trip from Palembang. From the capital of South Sumatra, many buses are available at Pagar Alam. Or if you are from Jakarta, prior to riding the bus or the Department of Bengkulu, Padang, and fell in Lahat.

Pagar Alam, is consistent with its name, the city is clearly surrounded by the Bukit Barisan mountain range and the highest of these ranks is Mount Dempo. This is very beautiful mountain towering upright nan reaching for the sky blue when viewed in the morning.
It is therefore appropriate to spend the night before in town, here are widely available hostels or motels, ranging from Rp. 20 000/$2 overnight. Urban culture that has been blended from a variety of both immigrants and native tribes to create the peace that you do not get in the big cities.

From the terminal Pagar Alam, first chartered car / taxi for Tea Factory majors PTPN III's away reach 15 km from the terminal. In this factory is a good idea to meet with someone you used to be called Mr. Anton, he included an elder by nature lovers throughout South Sumatra, Lampung. By asking for help, chartered car will take you to the nearest village from the foot of Mount Dempo, who can take more than 20 minutes, because the road is steep, winding past the carpet of tea gardens with green nan.

Path leading to the top of the mountain even this is very clear and even on ordinary days too many of the villagers who accidentally climbed to the top of either wood or just looking for berhiking.

Although this mountain high enough, but there is clear water that is half the journey to this mountain so that the climbers did not have to worry about running out of drinking water during the trip. A small stream of clear, flowing at the border we began to enter the sign forest area is overgrown with jungle-like plants that we find in the mountain of Gede-Pangrango, namely montane forest. The path is full of roots that cross, slope steep enough to own sweat. There are no special signs, state the forest is almost homogeneous and very quiet.

Four or five hours later, we're going into areas with low plant vegetation and the lower wooded, some areas slightly open, the view became widespread. Dempo mountain has two peaks are the only named Peak Fire. Toward the top of which is the first Dempo massive plains, the first peak of the low plants resemble overgrown bushes. From the first summit we descend back into the river, flanked by the first peak and the main peak. Valley have a spring of water flowing here. This crystal clear water only slightly sour taste, perhaps the influence of seepage of sulfur.

The climb to the main peak is not too difficult. Slopes composed of gravel and rocks with kemitingan slope about 40 °, is stable enough to climb. The main peak of Mount Dempo (3158 m), is a volcanic crater which is still volatile with a diameter of about one hundred square meters. Quite steep crater walls and could not descend without ropes rock. The view from the top quite exciting. Apart from the crater that gives a special impression, it appears also terhamparan Bengkulu province with the Indian Ocean with a quiet stretch of the valley and quiet. Travel down only takes two hours. If you can stay in the benighted Dusuun VI, by first asking permission of the head of security there.