In August, 2007, I joined a FarRail (Bernd Seilor, Berlin, Germany) tour of Java, Indonesia to see surviving steam in the sugar cane fields. The group met at Jakarta airport, from where we took an internal flight, then a bus, spent our first night in an hotel in a small town, then more bus to near Mount Bromo, an active volcano. We got up at some obscene hour (4am) to take a jeep ride to a nearby mountain to see the sun rise over the volcano. From here we carried on to visit a variety of Sugar Mills, with a wide variety of exotic, elderly little locomotives. Some of the mills were still powered by their original steam engines, and we were permitted to wander around and take pictures. Altogether an entertaining trip!
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