Climbing Mt. Batur with a sunrise surprise

I had this wonderful idea to climb to the top of a volcano at sunrise. It was a very difficult climb. Only a few of us made the climb up the mountain. Caleb is the only one that made it up to the top and back down again. Mt Batur

We woke up at 3am. It was a really hard climb and luckily they had motor cycles that could take you up most of the way. 
Caleb and I pushed ourselves all the way up the top. I barely made it to the top to see the sunrise.










Our guide then recommended us to go around the top and go down the other side it was so fun sliding down the mountain.    I ended up having knee problems so I ended up getting the motorcycle the rest of the way down.  

One strange experience was when Joshua decided to open a power bar.   As he ripped it open all the monkeys went straight for him to get what he was opening.  One of them jumped on top of him.  It happened so quickly that we didn't get it on video nor took pictures.  but this was one of the monkeys.




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