Climbing in Indonesia: A Journey through South East Asia

Indonesia is a prodigious country, with an extraordinary amount of records to its name. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, the world’s largest archipelagic state and is home to over 700 languages. Choosing where to go in somewhere so vast is tricky, but we settled on Java as it has by far the most documented climbing areas. We spent a month on Java and it flew by, trying to visit anywhere else on top of that would have spread us too thin. Java is the world’s most populous island with over 145 million people, bigger than the population of the UK and France put together! It is an exceptional place, the people are great, the culture is captivating and the geography is fantastic.

Climber on a slightly overhanging wall looking for the next move. The rock is pocketed pink and grey andesite. Below are the flat green rice fields and small villages. Behind these are more jungle covered mountains in the haze.
Beautiful scenery and rock at Bongkok, on ‘Letjen of the Fall’, 6b
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