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getting out that traveling and seeing
the world especially when you're young
can be life-changing we all have that
one friend who just got back from an
overseas Kentucky singer who's all like
oh my god if I could go back in time and
meet myself before I went on this trip I
don't even think I'd recognize myself Oh
jokes aside I am that person more than I
would like to admit because I honestly
don't believe that I would be the same
person that I am today if I just stayed
in Australia there's nothing wrong with
Australia obviously but yeah also hi
hello my name is Hannah and I'm now a
blonde here's all that one coming not me
anyway I could go on and on and on about
how good travel can be for you getting
outside of your bubble experiencing the
world and all of that but we all know
the same too much of a good thing is not
good what is that saying so on the final
leg of mine and Jess's adventure around
East Java Indonesia there was a place
called kawah ijen and this is an active
volcano with the world's most acidic
lake in the centre is water
yo come check out how blue this water is
so we left our hotel at midnight we
didn't get any sleep to drive to the
base of the volcano it only took about
an hour to get to the top and you
couldn't really see anything when you
got there but boy can you smell the
sulfur oh my gosh nobody taught master
brimstone I know what asked me and there
was no gram stone and come off no stone
neither so the reason that this volcano
Lake is so blue is because it's got an
extremely high acidity level
and also there's like dissolved metals
in there or something like that and they
react and science at about 3 or 4 a.m.
in the morning I forget what time we got
there if you hike back down to the
center of the crater to where the the
sulfur gas is spewing out and you get
these like gas masks and it feels like
you post-apocalyptic well and it's
freaking awesome you might actually get
to see the phenomenon known as the blue
flames and it's only one of only two
places in the world that you can
experience this but luckily now to a
guide I leant in my camera he went out
got really close to it and took some
photos for me and they just was so
mind-blowing Lee beautiful so by 4:00
a.m. my mind had already just been like
blurred a couple of times already and
then the Sun rose
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it's coming alright so when you're
hiking to the top of the volcano it's
not just tourists going up with you but
also sulphur miners so this job is
always in high demand and it pays a lot
better than any other job you'd be able
to get in that town that's nearby but
it's also one of the toughest jobs I
have ever heard of in the entire world
so not only do they hike up and down
this volcano about twice a day but they
also do so while collecting and carrying
between 70 to 100 kilograms of sulfur on
their shoulders through toxic smog and
most of them don't even wear gas masks a
lot of them fall ill pretty quickly they
suffer from all kinds of back and
shoulder injuries and intense lung
damage they get paid around 7 cents per
kilogram of sulphur that is delivered
which means on a good day they can
expect to bring home about 11 US dollars
so a few days later I was talking to one
of the other tourists that I met in some
other area of Indonesia and she was
telling me about her experience going
there and was talking about like the
ethics and morals of traveling and
things like that
as you do she was saying that she wasn't
sure if it was a good thing that
Coalition is becoming more of a popular
tourist location because she thinks that
it might encourage other miners to go
there and continue working there in
order to gain a little extra money off
the tourists a lot of the miners sold
like little trinkets or little almost
like you know take-home souvenirs made
out of sulfur that you can buy from them
so I spoke in my most recent video about
like mass tourism to places like Bali
and things like that about how if one
specific place can get popular it can
really be a detriment to the culture and
the habitat and the environment so this
was one of those things that I was
wondering is this actually a good thing
for the country and for the people
working there I had the thought about if
this place became super super super
popular with tourists they would have to
find a way to continue to let the miners
through without the tourists getting in
the way but at the same time I mean I
don't know there's this if this is the
the conundrum that I
contemplating I'm mewling so after
thinking about it for a while I'd kind
of come to the conclusion that I think
tourists going to this place is not a
bad thing because the miners the miners
would already be doing that whether or
not tourists were there or not so I
don't think they're going there as a
tourist is promoting this you know
really intense working conditions or
anything like that I know that when you
go to travel to places and I certainly
feel the same you want to be able to
experience like the the wildlife and the
animals and the culture and things like
that but at the same time if so many
tourists are all looking for the same
thing all it takes is for one guy one
awful person to come up with the idea to
capitalize on that and do things in a
much cheaper way which is usually a more
detrimental way which is the problem
there's certainly some places that I've
been to like when Jess and I went to
Chiang Mai in Thailand we went to an
elephant sanctuary rather than an actual
elephant riding place because we all
know the differences between the two of
them one on the other hand is is
suffering and animal cruelty and just
terribleness and then the other hand
it's people like looking after the
animals however you you get to
experience elephants up close you get to
touch them and you don't get to ride
them but you get to feed them and do all
of that and it's a much more natural and
a way to actually support the
rehabilitation of these beautiful
incredible animals so there are ways
that you can experience the beauty of a
country without taking away from its
habitat which is basically what this
video is about wow it took me a long
time to get there holy crap okay after
Jess and I finished at kawah ijen which
was the final tick of the list of things
that I really really wanted to see in
East Java we headed back down south to a
place called Banyuwangi and then from
there we took a jeep ride into like the
middle of the jungle so I Drive it just
turns around and he's like so maybe you
want to try on the roof I was like we're
going through water to this little beach
cause to come out at Beach when we got
to tsukamoto Beach we stayed at just out
of our homestay they're very basic very
simple you shower with a bucket it was
fresh and then that night we went out to
the beach in the hopes to find some sea
turtles this whole experience was
organized by it's a conservation project
that is funded by the government
Indonesian government to conserve these
endangered species of sea turtles and it
was the most incredible experience so
that night we went out to the beach to
in the hopes to find some sea turtles
lainson eggs we didn't actually get to
see anything when we were there but the
next morning however we were given a
little bucket with a four little baby
sea turtles in it and it was just the
cutest thing in the whole world so we
walked down to the beach with our little
bucket of turtles and then as a strange
sentence and then the tour guide gave us
like a little spiel about how these
little baby turtles survived in the wild
and and how important it is for them to
get to the ocean and a whole bunch of
information it was just like everything
was my employee it's incredible and then
we got to pick up the little sea turtles
and then put them down on the ground and
then like watch them race off into the
off to be an adult's real-life turtle
and it was just like ah we got to then
go back with the to a guide and speak to
him about what it is that he does there
and and you know how important it is for
these Turtles to have a safe place for
all of their eggs to hatch and
everything because there's so many
predators nowadays and especially with a
lot of humans on the beaches and things
like that that's why the beach had to be
surf around the jungle because it's the
only place the turtles go anymore
because there's so many humans and all
the beaches it was so beautiful and just
the most incredible little side trip
that I didn't even vlog much because I
didn't think I was going to make a full
video about it but now I'm kicking
myself because it was amazing and of
course all of the money that we spent to
go out there I'm not sure how much
exactly but I'm pretty sure a large
percentage of it goes back into the
conservation project and it helps fund
what it is that they're doing so the
wonderful part is you do get to
experience the wonders that is the
animals and the culture and the habitats
and things like that but you are also
supporting the right people and all it
takes is a little bit of extra effort
and a little bit of extra research so I
would highly recommend both of these
things to you cohesion and also Sukumar
their Beach turtle release catch and
release thing and there's a better word
for it I'm sure I'll put the details for
the tour that we booked to cover Asia
and down below because they're amazing
and they've always cake for some reason
when they picked us up for the hotel
they were just like do you want some
cake I was like sure and for the Sukumar
their Beach to a thing and you really
have to like book it through one of the
hotels in Banyuwangi but it's pretty
easy to figure out once you're there
because there's lots of tour guides
around it but I'd be really interested
to hear what people have to say about
this kind of thing because I think it's
so important that as travel and tourism
becomes more popular and more readily
available and cheaper I just think it's
really important that we keep in mind
that there are ways that we can
experience these things without
supporting the wrong people so yeah yeah
so this is the end of my Indonesia
videos Jess and I had the most amazing
two weeks in East Java Indonesia it was
just so freakin incredible and it's
mind-blowing to think that it's right
next to Bali but like
like 1% of the people that it was
amazing anyway I hope that you enjoyed
these video series scissors here in
Indonesia here it not here no not here I
had a lot of fun making these and I
think you've probably noticed that I'm
changing up the format of these videos a
little bit a little more story base a
little more concept based and a lot more
talking so hope that you like my talking
I am also definitely in a different
place I'm sure you've also noticed that
I will not be telling you where it is
yet ok follow me on Instagram if you're
not already you might be able to find
out where I am right now yeah anyway wow
so much talking I'm gonna stop I hope
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know your experiences and stuff like
that anyway mmm it was lovely chatting
to you good bye and we're gonna cover
the lens this time because I'm changing
things up
woohoo and see no that was weird