Mount Dempo 3159 mdpl

Mount Dempo (3159 mdpl) located in the border province of South Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. To reach the nearest village, first you must reach the city Pagar Alam, approximately 7 hours drive from Palembang land. South Sumatra's capital is available to the many bus Pagar Alam. Or if you are from, before you can ride bus or Bengkulu, Padang, and down in Lahat.

Pagar Alam City, is consistent with the name, the city is surrounded by clear Bukit Barisan mountain range and the top of the line is Mount Dempo. This mountain is very beautiful tower vertical reach the sky blue when viewed in the morning.

It is therefore very appropriate when the first overnight in the city, many available here inn or motel, around Rp. 20,000 a night. Culture is a city that different tribes and migrants both create genuine peace that you do not get in the big cities.

Pagar Alam from the terminal, first charter a car / taxi-way for the Tea Factory PTPN III to reach the 15 km distance from the terminal. Factory in this good you have someone with a regular pack called Anton, he is leader by including the entire nature lover Sumsel-Lampung. With the assistance request, carteran car will take you to the nearest village from the foot of Mount Dempo, who can take more than 20 minutes, because the road is quite steep, with a curvaceous overlay through green tea plantations.

The path to the very day of the mountain is very clear and even in normal day-to-day the village was a lot of people who ascend to the top of the purposely whether to search for wood or just hiking.

Although the mountain is high enough, but the water is clear there is a half-way up the mountain to the climber so that this does not worry about running out of drinking water during the trip. A small crystal clear river, flowing in the border forest omen we start to enter the forest area with plants that are similar as we find in the mountains Gede-Pangrango, namely forest montana. Pathways with full root-root of the cross, slope gradient steep enough to own rack sweat. There are no special signs, the forest is almost homogeneous and very quiet.

Four or five hours later, we will enter the area with vegetation plants trees with the lower and lower, some slightly open, a view also to be knowledgeable. Gunung Dempo with two peaks of the only named Peak fire. Towards the top of the first Dempo, which is plain masif, first peak that there is a plant similar to low perdu. From the first summit we descend back to the valley which is between the first peak and the main peak. In this valley, there is a source of water flowing here. Only the water is crystal clear that it's a little wrinkled, may be the influence of seepage sulfur.

Climbing to the top of the main is not too difficult. Slope of its gravel and stones with a slope of approximately 40 ° slope, stable enough for the mounting. Dempo main peak of the mountain (3158 m), is a volcanic crater which still flare with a diameter of approximately one hundred square meters. Crater wall is steep and may not be in the rock turuni without ropes. Landscape is very beautiful from the top. In addition to craters that provide special effects, also appear to extend Bengkulu province with the Indian Ocean with the carpet and desolate valley of serene. Travel down only takes two hours. Benighted when you can stay in Dusun VI, with the first ask permission of the security there.