The most beautiful sunrise in the world. Places with the most beautiful sunsets and sunrises. Sapphire Observation Deck, Istanbul
The panorama of the Bromo, Semeru and Kursi volcanoes is one of the calling cards of Indonesia and, in general, one of the calling cards of the natural beauty of the Earth.
Moreover, the business card is subconscious. Just like in the case of Sossusvlei in Namibia. Everyone has seen this landscape more than once, but they don’t know where it is.
So, this wonderful panorama is located in the east of the island of Java and it is not so difficult to see it. How easy it is to look into the breathing depths of the Bromo volcano.
Getting to the village of Seromo Lawang from Yogyakarta by public transport is a very tedious task due to transfers and the low speed of island buses. It is possible that you will have to spend the night in the city of Probolinggo - the outport of the volcanic massif. It's also not easy to hitchhike in a day.
The best option for those who do not want to waste time is a tourist minibus from Yogyakarta to Seromo Lawang. It costs $16 per person, you can buy a ticket at any travel agency. Early in the morning, a minibus picks you up from the hotel and spends the whole day traveling along the narrow roads of Java past endless villages and fields with rice and corn. The task is a little tedious even for a geographer. Still, flat Java is a bit of a boring landscape. But the minibus has air conditioning.
You arrive already in the dark. If you bought a hotel in advance from a travel agency (a double room will cost $12 per room), then they will accommodate you. True, not the hotel that was promised and not the conditions that were initially offered (for that kind of money, the shower will be in the corridor and a little warm, but the rooms are miserable).
If you don’t book a hotel in advance, you can try to find it yourself in Seromo Lawang, but the prices will be the same. We teamed up with a Dutch couple and rented a cozy chalet with hot showers for $33. It gets very cold here at night, so a hot shower is highly recommended.
You can have dinner at the hotel restaurant, but it is much cheaper to eat at a local eatery. Just hurry up - both the first and second ones close very early.
At night there is heavy fog, visibility is about 10 meters. Plus it is very cold, after the seaside heat this is very pleasing.
The main reason people come here is to watch the sunrise with a view of the volcanoes. Dawn is greeted at the observation deck on the Penanjakan volcano. You can walk there in about three hours, but you have to leave around 2 am, and the path in the dark is not obvious in places. Therefore, the easiest and most painless way is to take a jeep tour for $10 per person.
At 4 am, jeeps drive through the hotels and the race begins. To get to the volcano, you need to overcome a plain covered with a thick layer of ash (or as it is called here, the Sand Sea, the Sea of Sand).
This is a must see! The night fog swirls around, sand and ash fly from under the wheels. The car flies up on every bump, there are no roads here - only the direction. To the right and left, the headlights of other jeeps shine through the fog. You can’t help but imagine the whole picture: dozens of jeeps roaring across the ash-strewn plain. You feel as if you were a participant in a massive landing, as if we had begun an invasion of an as yet unknown enemy. It’s a pity that I don’t have the soundtrack from the movie “Starship Troopers” with me; the composition Klendathu Drop would be perfect.
After 10-15 minutes of this “jump across the steppe”, a road appears and takes you steeply into the mountains. The jeeps line up in a column and, without slowing down, pass one sharp turn of the track after another. Branches and vines hit the roof. Now this is no longer an invasion of an alien planet, but a banal coup in a banana republic. Now our column will cross the mountain range and fall on the sleepy capital, and we will break into the presidential palace...
...But instead, the jeeps stop at a tourist stall, where, along with standard souvenirs, sellers offer hats and gloves, as well as warm jackets for rent. The jacket, by the way, will come in handy. It's really very cold.
It’s still half an hour before dawn, and there are already about a hundred people standing on the observation deck. And this is just the beginning - by the culmination of the action there will be about three hundred of them. August is high season in Indonesia, both for tourists and locals. The latter make up more than half of all viewers. And they make a terrible noise - very similar to Chinese tourists in China.
However, dawn soon begins, and you stop paying attention to them.
The secret of success is to climb over the fence separating the site from the abyss and sit with a camera on the edge of the cliff. Then no one will interfere with enjoying the sunrise and taking the necessary pictures.
When dawn begins, you don’t know where to look. Or the sun creeping out from behind the mountains on the left. Or down, where the morning fog literally flows down the plain, revealing trees that seem like toys from here.
Or, in fact, the volcanoes on the contrary, which gradually become pink, then fiery, and finally take on natural daytime colors.
The whole color music takes about half an hour.
Let's get acquainted. The largest volcano in the background is Semeru (3676 m), the highest point on the island of Java. The volcano often erupts, which adds considerable charm to the entire panorama. But when we arrived he was silent.
An ideal cone with a cut off top is the Kursi volcano (2581 m). In my opinion, he is the most beautiful here.
What about Bromo? But Bromo is not visible due to the morning fog. This is a low volcano (2392 m), completely lost against the background of the others if it weren’t for the constant activity - thick white smoke is constantly pouring out of the volcano, which is clearly visible in all the photos.
If you wait a few hours for the fog to clear, you can see the entire panorama. But it’s time for us to move on, we return to the jeep and drive down to Bromo volcano.
About 15 minutes later the car slows down in the middle of thick fog. “Bromo is there,” the driver says joyfully, pointing into nowhere. Let's go nowhere towards this. Visibility is ten meters. Smells strongly of sulfur.
From time to time, riders fly out of the fog and offer a ride. But in fact, it’s not far here - walk 300-400 meters.
A slight rise, and here it is a volcano. A staircase has been carefully laid to its top.
After what I saw from Penanjakan, Bromo seems like a small, almost domestic volcano. But it's still interesting to make a short climb and look inside. I felt like I was looking into the chimney of a thermal power plant.
By the way, over time I even begin to like the smell of sulfur.
The crowd at the foot makes you think of the Egyptian pyramids or Petra, but not for long. In a couple of hours, the tourists will disperse, and the sellers and riders will also perish.
Of all the places we visited in Indonesia, my biggest regret is probably not staying an extra day around Bromo. I didn’t breathe in the fresh mountain air, didn’t walk along the slopes, didn’t go to the observation deck again and didn’t look at the volcanoes during the day and evening.
Well, there is a reason to return...
Well, after warming up in a hot shower, we moved further east. The Kawa-Ijen crater awaited us.
Every person, no matter what pragmatic mask he puts on himself, always hides at least some part of a romantic. We are all prone to sentimental moments, we can all feel more than necessary - in a word, anyone can find a reason for romantic behavior.
But what most often provokes us to exclusively romantic emotions?
Of course, many people may put other people first, but sometimes the reason is completely different. Often the key source of such emotions is precisely nature, because few things can give such unforgettable sensations as various natural phenomena, which often manifest themselves in all their glory.
And the most beautiful of them include sunsets and sunrises. It's amazing how beautiful they can be. But they can be even more beautiful if you know where it is best to observe them. After all, even though there is one Sun for everyone, the overall picture can vary depending on where the observer is located.
Therefore, let's look at 10 places where you can watch the most beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and who knows, maybe you will want to go to one of them just to see the majestic picture with your own eyes.
10. Promthep Cape, Phuket Island
At the extreme southern point of this Thai island there is a special observation deck, which for many acts as the main local attraction.
Not only is there a beautiful view of the islands scattered across the sea and the beach, but also the sun in the evenings, in the form of a kind of red disk, beautifully sinks into the sea. The clouds turn peachy. The spectacle is very beautiful and worthy of close attention if you visit Phuket.
9. Observation deck at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
The Marina Bay Hotel is one of the most popular in all of Singapore. There are many reasons for this. Some people choose it because of its unusual architecture, others like, for example, the swimming pool that is located on the roof and other interesting solutions.
But what many admire most is the stunning sunset seen from its observation deck, set against the backdrop of the cityscape. The interesting thing is that you don’t have to be a hotel client to see it, you just need to pay some money.
8. “The Emperor’s Throne”, Pelekas, Corfu Island
Not far from Corfu there is a small village called Pelekas. Not that it has any other special characteristics, but the views from the local hills are impressive. The nearby island looks simply beautiful, the sea, the mountains - everything is pleasant to admire. But the best thing here is still the sunset, which is best viewed from the platform called the Emperor's Throne, named after the German Kaiser Wilhelm.
7. Angkor, Cambodia
Angkor is the ancient capital of Cambodia. What adds to its unusualness is the fact that, in essence, this is a real temple city. Previously, about a million people lived on its twenty square kilometers. And tourists come here not only for the ancient architecture, but also to enjoy one of the most beautiful sunrises in the whole world. For a small price you can even view it from a special hot air balloon, from where the view is especially beautiful.
6. Teide Volcano, Tenerife, Spain
This volcano has a height of more than 3,700 meters relative to sea level. This allows you to reach a level where the air is especially clean and transparent, and therefore the dawn rising over the Atlantic Ocean looks completely special and unforgettable. Enterprising local travel agencies even sell specialized tours that are essentially focused on climbing to the top and seeing the sunrise. If that's not enough, you can watch the night sky at the local observatory.
5. Empire State Building, New York
You don't have to go to quite exotic places to enjoy an excellent sunset view. Sometimes this can be done right in the center of a metropolis. It is enough to go up to the observation deck of the mentioned building about an hour before sunset. Due to the abundance of skyscrapers, the sun is not visible very well. But the sky, the clouds, so unusually painted in various fantastic colors, reflected in numerous windows, are a magical sight.
4. Boracay Island, Philippines
For many, the sunsets in the Philippines are the most beautiful in the world. And the point here is not only a subjective assessment, the point is also that the atmospheric conditions here are unlike any other. The air masses that gather here above the water surface create extraordinary optical effects that definitely need to be seen in person. And sunsets here are a completely unique and extraordinary phenomenon that you just want to admire.
3. Karelia, Russia
There are also places in the Russian Federation that are truly worthy of attention if you want to enjoy excellent sunrises and sunsets. The local unique nature makes it possible to meet the sunrise or sunset in many different ways - either the sun will sink in the local lakes, or rise from behind the dew-covered grass. A real paradise for a photographer hunting for a good shot, or simply for any connoisseur of beautiful views.
2. Grand Canyon, USA
The most famous natural landmark of the United States is interesting in principle. But the local meeting of the dawn is especially interesting here. There is even a separate separate excursion for this. Within its framework, tourists are taken approximately an hour before sunrise to one of the observation platforms, after which the sun gradually begins to rise through numerous breaks and ledges of the gorge, creating a completely extraordinary, unique picture.
1. Sapphire Lookout, Istanbul
But perhaps the best way to watch the sunrise or sunset is from the observation deck of the tallest building in Istanbul. From a 261-meter height, the sun, which illuminates the local mosques and minarets as it goes beyond the horizon, looks especially beautiful. And if that’s not your thing, then you can also enjoy the beautiful view from one of the local ferries that regularly ply along the Bosphorus - also an excellent option for lovers of beauty.
The panorama of the Bromo, Semeru and Kursi volcanoes is one of the calling cards of Indonesia and, in general, one of the calling cards of the natural beauty of the Earth.
Moreover, the business card is subconscious. Just like in the case of Sossusvlei in Namibia. Everyone has seen this landscape more than once, but they don’t know where it is.
So, this wonderful panorama is located in the east of the island of Java and it is not so difficult to see it. How easy it is to look into the breathing depths of the Bromo volcano.
Getting to the village of Seromo Lawang from Yogyakarta by public transport is a very tedious task due to transfers and the low speed of island buses. It is possible that you will have to spend the night in the city of Probolinggo - the outport of the volcanic massif. It's also not easy to hitchhike in a day.
The best option for those who do not want to waste time is a tourist minibus from Yogyakarta to Seromo Lawang. It costs $16 per person, you can buy a ticket at any travel agency. Early in the morning, a minibus picks you up from the hotel and spends the whole day traveling along the narrow roads of Java past endless villages and fields with rice and corn. The task is a little tedious even for a geographer. Still, flat Java is a bit of a boring landscape. But the minibus has air conditioning.
You arrive already in the dark. If you bought a hotel in advance from a travel agency (a double room will cost $12 per room), then they will accommodate you. True, not the hotel that was promised and not the conditions that were initially offered (for that kind of money, the shower will be in the corridor and a little warm, but the rooms are miserable).
If you don’t book a hotel in advance, you can try to find it yourself in Seromo Lawang, but the prices will be the same. We teamed up with a Dutch couple and rented a cozy chalet with hot showers for $33. It gets very cold here at night, so a hot shower is highly recommended.
You can have dinner at the hotel restaurant, but it is much cheaper to eat at a local eatery. Just hurry up - both the first and second ones close very early.
At night there is heavy fog, visibility is about 10 meters. Plus it is very cold, after the seaside heat this is very pleasing.
The main reason people come here is to watch the sunrise with a view of the volcanoes. Dawn is greeted at the observation deck on the Penanjakan volcano. You can walk there in about three hours, but you have to leave around 2 am, and the path in the dark is not obvious in places. Therefore, the easiest and most painless way is to take a jeep tour for $10 per person.
At 4 am, jeeps drive through the hotels and the race begins. To get to the volcano, you need to overcome a plain covered with a thick layer of ash (or as it is called here, the Sand Sea, the Sea of Sand).
This is a must see! The night fog swirls around, sand and ash fly from under the wheels. The car flies up on every bump, there are no roads here - only the direction. To the right and left, the headlights of other jeeps shine through the fog. You can’t help but imagine the whole picture: dozens of jeeps roaring across the ash-strewn plain. You feel as if you were a participant in a massive landing, as if we had begun an invasion of an as yet unknown enemy. It’s a pity that I don’t have the soundtrack from the movie “Starship Troopers” with me; the composition Klendathu Drop would be perfect.
After 10-15 minutes of this “jump across the steppe”, a road appears and takes you steeply into the mountains. The jeeps line up in a column and, without slowing down, pass one sharp turn of the track after another. Branches and vines hit the roof. Now this is no longer an invasion of an alien planet, but a banal coup in a banana republic. Now our column will cross the mountain range and fall on the sleepy capital, and we will break into the presidential palace...
...But instead, the jeeps stop at a tourist stall, where, along with standard souvenirs, sellers offer hats and gloves, as well as warm jackets for rent. The jacket, by the way, will come in handy. It's really very cold. 
It’s still half an hour before dawn, and there are already about a hundred people standing on the observation deck. And this is just the beginning - by the culmination of the action there will be about three hundred of them. August is high season in Indonesia, both for tourists and locals. The latter make up more than half of all viewers. And they make a terrible noise - very similar to Chinese tourists in China.
However, dawn soon begins, and you stop paying attention to them.
The secret of success is to climb over the fence separating the site from the abyss and sit with a camera on the edge of the cliff. Then no one will interfere with enjoying the sunrise and taking the necessary pictures.
When dawn begins, you don’t know where to look. Or the sun creeping out from behind the mountains on the left. Or down, where the morning fog literally flows down the plain, revealing trees that seem like toys from here. 
Or, in fact, the volcanoes on the contrary, which gradually become pink, then fiery, and finally take on natural daytime colors. 
The whole color music takes about half an hour. 
Let's get acquainted. The largest volcano in the background is Semeru (3676 m), the highest point on the island of Java. The volcano often erupts, which adds considerable charm to the entire panorama. But when we arrived he was silent.
An ideal cone with a cut off top is the Kursi volcano (2581 m). In my opinion, he is the most beautiful here.
What about Bromo? But Bromo is not visible due to the morning fog. This is a low volcano (2392 m), completely lost against the background of the others if it weren’t for the constant activity - thick white smoke is constantly pouring out of the volcano, which is clearly visible in all the photos. 
If you wait a few hours for the fog to clear, you can see the entire panorama. But it’s time for us to move on, we return to the jeep and drive down to Bromo volcano.
About 15 minutes later the car slows down in the middle of thick fog. “Bromo is there,” the driver says joyfully, pointing into nowhere. Let's go nowhere towards this. Visibility is ten meters. Smells strongly of sulfur. 
From time to time, riders fly out of the fog and offer a ride. But in fact, it’s not far here - walk 300-400 meters.
A slight rise, and here it is a volcano. A staircase has been carefully laid to its top. 
After what I saw from Penanjakan, Bromo seems like a small, almost domestic volcano. But it's still interesting to make a short climb and look inside. I felt like I was looking into the chimney of a thermal power plant.
By the way, over time I even begin to like the smell of sulfur. 
The crowd at the foot makes you think of the Egyptian pyramids or Petra, but not for long. In a couple of hours, the tourists will disperse, and the sellers and riders will also perish. 
Of all the places we visited in Indonesia, my biggest regret is probably not staying an extra day around Bromo. I didn’t breathe in the fresh mountain air, didn’t walk along the slopes, didn’t go to the observation deck again and didn’t look at the volcanoes during the day and evening.
Well, there is a reason to return... 
Bromo - Semeru. The most beautiful sunrise. January 30th, 2018
If you type “Indonesia volcanoes” in any search engine, then in the first row you will definitely see a mesmerizing composition of three volcanoes among the clouds.
This picture is the hallmark of Indonesian volcanoes.
Every day, hundreds of people gather at the Penanjakan viewpoint to watch the sun rise over the volcanoes.
Semeru, Java's highest volcano, is churning in the background. Ahead are the bitten shapes of the smoking crater of the Bromo volcano. And just ahead, as if combed with a comb, is the long-extinct Batok volcano. And this whole magnificent company is swimming in the cloudy sea.
Actually, that's all.
No, of course you understand, to see all this you need to at least get to the observation deck. And it is advisable to get there somewhere in the middle of the night in order to take a place among the suffering, in order to freeze and get tired properly, so that the first rays of the sun are greeted with greater delight.
It all starts with getting up at one in the morning. Then mopeds, jeeps, dozens of jeeps, hundreds of people, the lasting feeling of the New Year on Red Square.
The deft passengers, already accustomed to everything, jumped on mopeds.
There weren't enough mopeds for everyone. But then we managed to fix it.
After mopeds, jeeps already seemed like super reliable transport. Moreover, this time we were driving not along some cliffs, but through mysterious fields.
Gradually, other jeeps began to join our caravan of jeeps.
And I'll tell you what. I have never seen so many jeeps in my life. And not even just at one time. In general, for my entire life. These were caravans of jeeps. I had no idea that there could be so many of them in all of Indonesia.
And all these jeeps raced across the field in the dark, gradually merging into one stream. Which, as you might guess, soon began to turn into a standing swamp.
And all sorts of food points appeared along the side of the road. And the people who sat, ate, watched, stood.
There was a thick weekend fair atmosphere in the air. Only, as I understand it, such a fair is here every day.
However, I could of course be wrong.
Maybe on other days it's not so crowded.
We must not forget that we were in the midst of the New Year holidays, which even in Indonesia had not yet ended. And the weather forecast for that day was as pleasant as possible for watching the sunrise.
We did not tie our dates to weather forecasts. We were just extremely lucky. But that’s not all true.
So, under the cover of darkness, we reached a certain point, from where we still had to walk to get to the very place where all these crowds of those who were as greedy for beauty as we were rushed.
And then that’s it. Sit and wait.
You can drink tea, eat corn, sit on a rented plastic chair... But in principle there are not many activities and they all boil down to one thing - to hold your position on the observation deck.
And so, when patience is running out, when all these crowds of fussing photographers begin to slightly irritate (at this moment, of course, no one remembers that he also has a camera in his hands), the light show begins for the sake of which all this was started.
And everything is forgotten. Early rise, stupid road, hustle and bustle.
And then the contours of the volcanoes announced for viewing begin to emerge from the darkness.
And now bang - look, admire!
And then the day comes. And somehow it all ends. Except for our grandiose plans.
Last photo for memory. And it's time for us to go.
Volcano Bromo awaits us. There he is in the photo on the left - with bitten edges and smoke in the crater. Yes. In this case, these are not lost clouds. This is the real smoke from volcanic activity.
And remember this beautiful almost round shape of the caldera. The next part of my Indonesian memoirs will talk about her.
And again on the road. With jeeps. Traffic jams. Seeds. Songs and dances. To probably the most beautiful place of our trip.
From IA’s diary, partly telling what we did next.
How beautiful the sunrise is. How it excites consciousness, fascinates and fills us with an inexplicable feeling of lightness. Dawn is the beginning of a new day, a great opportunity to get the most out of it and spend it in such a way as to remember every moment of it.
Nature reveling in sunlight, the incredible smell of a new day - what could be better than this moment, which every person can contemplate at dawn.
Start of a new day
Watching the sunrise is an incredibly interesting activity. After all, you can become a piece of a little magic created by nature. And how beautiful are the pictures and photos of this wonderful phenomenon, which you can look at for eternity.Many photographers are passionate about creating masterpiece photos depicting a sunrise. They can become a desktop wallpaper, or be used as a postcard to a loved one and a wish for good morning.
Dawn is the most beautiful time of the day, because it is just beginning, which means that you can live it the way you want. Watching how nature wakes up minute by minute, fills with energy and light, your mood rises, vigor and inspiration appear.
Awakening of Nature
With the onset of dawn. This happens in a matter of minutes. The rays of the sun break through the darkness, dispersing it. The sky gradually changes its color, playing with colors.The photos in which this was captured are incredibly beautiful and mysterious. They convey the reality of a phenomenon that nature gives the opportunity to admire every day.
Beautiful pictures that can decorate your computer desktop can be chosen to suit every taste. The magical works contain an image of dawn in the forest. What could be more beautiful than awakening trees, through the crowns of which the first rays of the sun break through and hit the ground. Every blade of grass, twig, and flower is saturated with them. All nature absorbs the morning smell.
Gradually, the fog dissipates in the morning light, giving the earth early coolness, peace, and delight. The rising sun awakens animals and birds living in the forest. You can paint pictures from all this, because in this light nature looks pristine, pure, immaculate.
Pictures and photos, looking at which you want to plunge into this atmosphere, can be installed on your desktop, sent by mail to a loved one or friend, sharing with them your excellent mood.
Beautiful morning time
Dawn symbolizes the beginning of something new. It is for this reason that the photographs and pictures in which he is depicted are imbued with a certain mystery. During the sun, it hides in the sea, and at dawn it is born again, and you can watch this phenomenon endlessly.The sea, the rays of the sun, filling the endlessly blue water, awakening all its inhabitants - this is the rise of the brightest star, brightening the entire Earth.
