The Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia, regularly pops up online because of its spectacularly unusual colouration: the lava that burns in its crater is an alluring blue. This natural phenomenon ...

INDONESIA -- I slept three hours before I stepped out of my hotel into the chilly night air; still tired but anxious for the long hike ahead. It was almost midnight, and our tour group was about to ...

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We never thought we would find ourselves hiking to the center of an active volcano on the island of Java at two in the morning. But there we were, doing exactly that, along with our tour guide, five ...

Journey to the heart of Java, Indonesia, where the deceptive beauty of Kawah Ijen Volcano hides its dangerous secrets.

In the eastern reaches of Java, Indonesia, the Kawah Ijen volcano stuns the world with a spectacle of neon-blue flames ...

Murahman, 47, a sulfur miner for 25 years, Nov. 4, 2014. Looming 2,799 m (9,183 ft.) above sea level, Gunung Ijen in Indonesia’s eastern Java is a volcanic wonder that attract hundreds of foreign and ...

Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano appears to glow electric blue at night. (Image: Canva) Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia glows blue at night due to burning sulphur gas. The blue glow is fire, not lava; ...

Electric-blue molten streams run down the side of an Indonesian volcano, periodically bursting into blue flames that shroud the black night in otherworldly colors. This unique volcano, Kawah Ijen on ...

It has been more than 64 years since Mount Ijen last erupted, but the volcano is still very much alive, and it is being mined by some of the toughest men in the world. They begin work shortly after ...