Volcano

And then we went up a volcano.

My trip isn't entirely about the Lord of the Rings. The film was really long, yeah, and it didn't even show all the in between bits. They made it look way easy to climb an active volcano. Towards the top the rock is at once crumbily and razor sharp, so it feels great in your socks. It is kind of like climbing an infinite sand dune made of tiny razors, which occasionally exudes plumes of sulphurous gas, in the suspciously warm areas. These warm areas are a little worrying on rubber shoes where you kind of think the thing is just going to melt stuck somewhere. And you'd be left having a bit of a Terminator Two moment.

The gale force wind doesn't help much either. But it lessens the searing heat as you try to steal glances into the crater.

In short it was flipping amazing. So weird

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