Bromo-Hindu Yadnya Kasada Ceremony 14.8.-15.8.2011

Priests performing ceremony before procession to temple

meditating in Poten temple

Pilgrims around warm fire inside temple area

meditating in Poten temple

Pilgrims around warm fire inside temple area

Priests meditating in Poten temple

Gamelan orchestre

Gamelan orchestre

Priests holding speech

mythical light due to fog

Poten temple under fog, seen from Bromr summit

Poten temple under fog, seen from Bromr summit

Pilgrims and Priests (and photographers...) on Bromo's crater rim, sacrifying goods

poor people catching sacrifical goods inside the active crater

crowded rim...

panoramic view, steaming crater with ceremony people to the right

Moon is setting behind

poor people catching sacrifical goods inside the active crater

earths shadow at sunrise and moon behind

sunrise above fog filling the Tengger-caldera base

first sunlight on Bromo's base

first sunlight on nearby Batok

catchers crawling around inside steep crater

sacrified and later recovered chicken

panoramic view with pilgrims on the rim, Mt. Batok and ascending pilgrims to the right

 

Tengger caldera overview

Bromr to the left, Semeru behind, Batok to the right

Tengger caldera overview

Tengger caldera overview

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