Woke up, shower and ready for action. We were served breakfast by the garden and up to the volcano. Although one of the guides said it was possible to walk up in flip-flops, we recommend bringing good trekking shoes. It is a 2hrs walk-up by a dried lava stream which turns very slippery when wet, so watch your bum. We followed our guide along with a couple of girls from London. Funny enough, one of them was friend of a co-worker of Paula's, which happened to be our neighbor in Hong Kong, a small world. The scenery on the way and on the top of the volcano is beautiful. Lots of steam comes out the crater forming huge clouds filled with sulfur and other chemicals, reason why your stay is limited to 20 min.
By the time we came down it started to rain a little, it was not easy to keep yourself upright. Nothing that much after that, it kept on raining and spent some hours at the hotel. After that, a walk to town and dinner.
The day after we climbed the volcano the activity raised and couldn't be hiked. Our Irish neighbor, whom we met on the flight to Manado for the first time, had to postponed his journey up.
