05/12/2010
Dempo Mount 3159 m
The mountain is located in the border province of South Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. To reach the nearest village, first you must reach the town of Pagar Alam, approximately 7-hour road trip from Palembang. From the capital of South Sumatra are many buses are available at Pagar Alam, one of them by using the bus Dharma Karya. Or if you are from Jakarta, prior to riding the bus or the Department of Bengkulu, Padang, and fell in Lahat.
Pagar Alam City, indeed as the name suggests, the city is clearly surrounded by the Bukit Barisan mountain ranges and the highest of these ranks is Mount Dempo. The mountain is very beautiful towering upright nan reaching for the sky blue when viewed in the morning. It is therefore appropriate if the first night in town, here are many available hostels or motels, ranging from Rp 20 thousand a night. Urban culture that has been blended from a variety of both immigrants and native tribes to create the peace that you do not get in the big cities. From the terminal Pagar Alam, first chartered a car / taxi to majors Tea Factory PTPN III that were located about 15 KM from the terminal. In this factory is a good idea to get acquainted with someone who used to be called Sir Anton, he included the elder by nature lovers throughout South Sumatra, Lampung. By asking for help, chartered car will take you to the nearest village from the foot of Mount Dempo, who might take longer than 20 minutes, because the road is steep, winding past the expanse of tea plantation with green.