Ahmad Bastomi is not only a crazy bakcpacker, but also a crazy climber.
He climbs a mount every year and his favorite mount to climb is Mount
Merbabu. "Merbabu is my second home!", Tommy said. He suggest the climbers
should try to conquer this amazing mount. Why? Because Indonesian
Climbers say that You must climb Mount Merbabu before you go to Mount
Semeru (Highest mount in Java). For your information, Mount Merbabu used to be an active volcano.
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Mount Merbabu is located in Central Java and it stands upright next to Mount Merapi.
If you are from Semarang, you can get there via Salatiga and if you from Yogyakarta, you have to go to Magelang first. "The hiking route is started in Kopeng. Here (Kopeng), there are so many climbers that you can make friend with!" Tommy said. Tommy advise us to keep the evironment in Mount Merbabu. He said that he and his friends were once helped by Merbabu's nature just because they kept their garbage in order to make the forest clean. "By climbing a mount, you will know that saving environment is very important. Because there is an interdependence between nature and us." Tommy hoped the more climbers, the safer the forest will be.
