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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A video of the spectacular scenes captured at a volcano crater "from another planet" has captivated users on Instagram. The video was shared by @2troubletravelers, the Instagram account of Domi, 29, ...

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; ...

In 2014 Italian photojournalist Luca Catalano Gonzaga went to Indonesia and spent ten days inside what he calls “the womb” of the Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java. Here, men toil in arduous conditions ...

The blue glow from Java’s Ijen volcano is caused by the flames emitted by burning sulphur deposits. Photo Credit: Bart Beeson Clad in gas masks and headlamps, dozens of people wound their way through ...

Burning sulphur pours from the side of the Kawah Ijen volcano, which is part of the Ijen volcano complex in East Java, Indonesia. While the sulhpur appears bright red during the day, at night it gives ...