Kawah Ijen Volcano in Indonesia with Sulfuric Acid Lake!
Check out this crazy sulfuric acid lake in Indonesia. This guy figured he’d take a rubber boat to test the waters and indeed, the lake itself is as toxic as the sulfuric acid in your battery.
Kawah Ijen is one of the most incredible and surreal places I’ve ever visited. It’s the site of a labor intensive sulfur mining operation where miners collect and carry huge loads of pure sulfur up from the crater floor along a steep, rocky path amid clouds of sulfur dioxide gas, all for the equivalent of about ten dollars a day.
It is also home to the largest lake of sulfuric acid in the world. I wanted to explore this volcano in the most extreme manner I could think of… By taking a small boat out onto the acid lake. The ph of the lake water is 0.5, similar to the strength of car battery acid.
Tags: ijen, indonesia, kawah, volcano
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