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The Mount Bromo volcano in East Java is really worth a visit, and whatever you may have heard, you won’t be prepared for this ethereal, unforgettable spectacle. The caldera around Bromo is absolutely vast, and when you do the early morning walk up to the crater you really feel as if you are walking on the moon or something. A steep 256-step concrete staircase gets you up to the rim but it’s now crumbling and, it seems to me, fairly dangerous. So take care as one slip and you are dead – that is the reality. Only last year, two tourists from Switzerland and Aus fell into the crater never to be seen again. And there have been plenty more before them too. In fact, the Tenggerese believe the volcano needs victims to appease the Gods. The sacred couple Joko Seger and Roro Ateng had to take their last child, Kusuma, to the crater, and throw him in (the name "Tengger" derives from the last syllables of the sacred couple’s name ... AnTENG and SeGER).