Rinjani Mountain

Mount Rinjani


Mount Rinjani is Indonesia's third highest mountain with a height (3720 m asl), which stores the various mysteries of one of them is about the existence of Dewi Anjani. According to the surrounding community trust, is the queen Dewi Anjani jin ruler of Mount Rinjani. Dewi Anjani They believe that human beings were born from the marriage with the genie, the beautiful and still descendants of King Selaparang. To honor the Dewi Anjani, the community often hold religious ceremonies on Mount Rinjani and Segara Anak Lake, by releasing small fish made from a thin gold to Lake Segara Anak. 


In the valley west of Mount Rinjani Lake Segara Anak there with the altitude reached (2008 m asl) in which the water smelled like sulfur, the temperature differs from one place to another. Size is approximately 1100 hectares of lakes, the depth between 160 to 230 meters. In the middle of this lake there is a new volcanic mountains that are still active and continues to develop until now.