Kelimutu's crater lakes

One of the major attractions that kept driving us farther east through Flores was Mt. Kelimutu. A towering volcano that contains three lakes of various colors. This is due to chemical reactions from minerals in the lake that are triggered by volcanic gasses or something like that. Which makes for excellent photos and many ohhs and ahhs from visitors while standing on a large crater between the lakes. 

We woke up at an ungodly 4am to be motorbiked up the hour long winding road in the blistering cold. Once on the top we continued our journey by foot where we watched the sun greet us to another lovely day in Indonesia. The views were breathtaking and endless, while the lakes leave you pondering how amazing this earth we inhabit actually is. After a bit of chatting with some locals and travelers we hiked our way back down to Moni, our base city if you could call it that. 

Since we took a bunch of photos of ourselves this morning I'll post them so you get to see how lovely my wife looks in the morning.