The Travel Club is an association of independent, explorative and creative travelers from all over the world. We are dedicated to building and promoting travel culture on a global level. https://www.thetravelclub.org/tag/authors 2026-01-14T13:01:33+01:00 The Travel Club Joomla! - Open Source Content Management 2014-10-14T01:10:32+02:00 2014-10-14T01:10:32+02:00 https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/632-on-the-cliff-of-volcano-tavurvur Faris Kapo

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavurvur">Tavurvur</a> is one of the <a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=252140"></a><a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=252140">volcanoes on the world, located on an island </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_New_Britain_Province">East New Britain</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. The proof of it's power <a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/1994/94_09_23.html">was the enormous explosion in 1994 which</a> desecrated the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaul" style="line-height: 21px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Rabaul</a>. The latest explosion happened recently in August 29. 2014.</p> <p>I've visited Rabaul and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopo">Kokopo</a> 7. 2014. &nbsp;first because of <a href="http://www.kbb.com.pg/KBBR-Festival.pdf" target="_blank">The National Mask Festival</a>,but strolling on an active volcano seemed too interesting to miss out. During day there were some smaller eruptions, couple of weak earthquakes and lot of Sulfuric gas in the air, and so I had the luck of vitnesing Tavurvu's activity (altough photographing in such extreme conditions is quite difficult.)</p> <p>You are standing there on the cliff, speechless and in front of the devastating force of nature you feel powerless.</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavurvur">Tavurvur</a> is one of the <a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=252140"></a><a href="http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=252140">volcanoes on the world, located on an island </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_New_Britain_Province">East New Britain</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. The proof of it's power <a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/1994/94_09_23.html">was the enormous explosion in 1994 which</a> desecrated the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaul" style="line-height: 21px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Rabaul</a>. The latest explosion happened recently in August 29. 2014.</p> <p>I've visited Rabaul and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopo">Kokopo</a> 7. 2014. &nbsp;first because of <a href="http://www.kbb.com.pg/KBBR-Festival.pdf" target="_blank">The National Mask Festival</a>,but strolling on an active volcano seemed too interesting to miss out. During day there were some smaller eruptions, couple of weak earthquakes and lot of Sulfuric gas in the air, and so I had the luck of vitnesing Tavurvu's activity (altough photographing in such extreme conditions is quite difficult.)</p> <p>You are standing there on the cliff, speechless and in front of the devastating force of nature you feel powerless.</p>