Jan 112011
Ijen is the site of a labor intensive sulfur mining operation in Kawah Ijen, (volcano and acid crater lake, in eastern Java, Indonesia), where miners extract the sulfur and carry it 8,660 feet up and down the mountain.
Sulfur Mining photos from our Kawah Ijen volcano adventure are below.
Kawah Ijen - I don't recommend eating sulfur deposits
looked like fire
Can I help you carry something?
the "yellow brick road" leads to... this.
More great photography on Kawah Ijen that were posted on the Boston Globe website. You can also find more photography of the sulfur mines at Ijen here, here, and here.
Sidenote – that first link comes from the Globe’s photography section, The Big Picture, which has been getting much better recently.
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