Sembalun Village

Sembalun is the gate of Mount Rinjani in the East side, Lombok Timur. You can reach Sembalun village from Aikmel (small city in Lombok Timur) using Engkel (A diesel minibus). It takes about 3 hours from Aikmal, walking through a farming area, rice fields, union farm, potatoes, tobaccos, and garlic farm.
Sembalun is located about 1.100 meters above sea level. The temperature is changing rapidly, suddenly. Cloud and fog is become it's environment. In the morning, the temperature could reach 7 degrees Celcius (June to August).

Sasak Girl

It was taken on September 2005. This photograph shows an expression of the Sasak girl who live in the Sembalun Lawang village (1,014 m above sea level), Mount Rinjani base camp. I took the photos in the morning when he prepared to face a rice field with her mother. Her face expression shows dislike against modern civilization, it is reasonable because he lived in the remote farmers in the village environment. I took her picture from far away using the zoom lens in order to get her natural expression.

Segara Anak Lake

Sasak tribes is the native of Lombok island।They used to climb Mount Rinjani and reach Segara Anak Lake for religion activity, healing disease activity (left side picture), also fishing on the Lake. It's amazing, because this 5.6Miles diametre of caldera still have volcano activity. This lake located 2.000 m above sea level, 15 hours walking from Sembalun basecamp. Eventhough the batolit still active, Segara Anak Lake contains a lot of fish, called carper. Sasak people like to fishing for a weeks. The go down to Sembalun bring a lot of fish, sell it to traditional market.

Rinjani

Lombok lies in the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat, East Indonesia. It is a small island having mainly three tribal inhabitants, i.e. Sasaknese (native Lombok), Balinese and Javanese. The buildings are not very much different with those in Java, though some look obviously Balinese, with the Pura in the front part of the house. Most people are moslems and a few are Hindu.

As a beautiful small island, Lombok have some tourism places that is very beautiful. Mount Rinjani is one of them. Mount Rinjani is very high mountain with beautiful Caldera above. Caldera is called Segara Anak lake, local people believes this place as a holy place of Sasak tribe. In time, the Sasak tribes go to the Segara Anak Lake to perform the ritual of healing disease. They stay for a weeka and pray to God to cure illness. Lombok with the full story and the mystical aura, the legend that should be.