Mount Ungaran (Gunung Ungaran) is one of the most famous interesting mount in Semarang area. Located in Distric of Ungaran, very close to Semarang city. From Semarang, the trip to go to Mount Ungaran is about two hours by car. We also can go there by bus.

Gedong Songo Temple is the reason made Mount Ungaran become famous. The temple was built at the midle of the mount.

There are nine interesting temples that was built in Midle Ages. Accomodation surrounding this mount also provided, cheap and very close with the temples.

Riding the horse is the interesting experience that we can find around the temple. For this service, we only pay about US $ 10 perhours. Spent one or two night and sleep inside the tent is the best experience that we can do here.

Mount Merapi (Gunung Merapi) is the most active volcano in the world, the meaning of the name is fire. This mountain located on the border between Central Java and Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. It has erupted regularly since 1548.

Although smoke can be seen emerging from the mountain top at least 300 days a year, several eruptions have caused fatalities. Hot gas from a large explosion killed 43 people in 1994, mostly in the town of Muntilan, west of the volcano.

Another large eruption occurred in 2006, shortly before the Yogyakarta Earthquake. In light of the hazards that Merapi poses to populated areas, it has been designated as one of the Decade Volcanos.

Around the mountain there are many interesting places. Kali Kuning and Kaliurang is one of the most places that visited by many people from Indonesia, but if the mountain cough and smoke come out from the peak of the mountain, this places will be closed.

Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont is an active, but equiescent stratovolcano in Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. The height of this mountain is 2518 meters. This mountain in one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world. There is a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak, on the south side. Because of its rsemblance to Mount Fuji, Taranaki provided the backdrop for the Movie The Last Samurai.

Taranaki is geologically young, having commenced activity approximately 135,000 years ago. The most recent volcanic activity was a moderate ash eruption, of the size of Ruapehu's activity in 1995/1996, that occurred about 1755 and possibly in the early 1800s, and the last major eruption occurred around 1655.

Recent research has shown that over the last 9000 years minor eruptions have occurred roughly every 90 years on average, with major eruptions every 500 years.

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