My little village is called Sariak. It lies between the two grand volcanoes in West Sumatra, Gunung Marapi and Gunung Singgalang. It is a peaceful, quiet little village, but the people living there are just old people and young children. The adults, as their customs want them to be, are all "perantau". They seek their livelihood away from their village.

Brilliant!! we arranged a guide through Bedudal cafe and initially wanted to do the night climb to watch the sunrise, but the weather was not on our side so we had to wait for the rain to clear. We went up at 6am the next morning the hike took 3.45 hours up to the top where we were given coffe... More

Amazing views of the crater and moonscape, and it's worth the 7 hours climb to reach the summit, but not the 5 hours to descend! (OK, you could have done it in just 3 plus 2 hours if you're a regular hiker, 5 plus 3 hours if you're in good shape.) The journey across the tropical rainforests of Sumatra is... More

Walking up for five hours not really bad for the climber, including rest, like having hot coffee or tea, and some biscuit, really cold in the top of the volcano, with two pears of t shirts is good idea

It is just so beautiful and many mystery........that is why people don't want to leave this place event it often eruption happen

Merapi or rather 'Marapi' of Bukit Tinggi Sumatra is one of the 3 peaks that symbolises Bukit Tinggi and the Minangkabau land. We had to do Mt Marapi after our trip to Kerinci and again we did it as part of a private group on an organised itinery. The 5 of us chose to do the night trek instead of... More