Rinjani Caldera: View from the crater rim

Some photo's from one of our two Volcano treks in Indonesia - July/August 2007.
(See August 3 for Rinjani and August 9 for Tambora)

This is a 180 degree + panorama, made on the rim of the 6 km wide caldera of Rinjani Volcano on Lombok. Lombok is the first big island east of Bali. The top of Rinjani, left in the picture, is the second highest peak in Indonesia, after the snow capped mountains - show not expected to be there for much longer - on New Guinea.

The height of the rater rim at photo point is 2650m:Garmin GPS details: 01/08/2007 16:50:08 2650 m S8 23.049 E116 24.011

I used a Leica M8 plus WATE (Wide Angle Tri-Elmar) at 18mm. The IV/UR filter probably caused the reflections at the right. The panorama was stichted with PtGui. Click on the picture for a larger view.

And here you find the spot the panorama was taken from in Google Maps (click):
http://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&num=10&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109402382047109712499.00043abb8d249ba57fac6&t=k&om=1&ll=-8.382544,116.404266&spn=0.123804,0.138702&z=13

Appreciate the width covered by the panorama (put together with 12 vertical wide angle pictures) with this Google Maps screenshot:

Plus below I pasted a Google Map in which, in Google Earth Plus, the Garmin Track and Waypoints were imported, so you can see the actual route of the trek: straight up :-)