Lombok MPG Tour Sep 06: Rinjani Volcano

The Gunung Rinjani flight was one of the highlight flights of the entire trip providing a totally different environment to the coastal flight. Here, we flew near a volcano in a deep valley, This volcano is the second highest in Indonesia. Our flight was quite late in the evening due to having to wait until the wind subsided in the valley that had been creating rotors. I was able to switch off and do some amazing ridge soaring. Afterwards, we were invited to dinner by the village chief Rahman. Surreal flying up to 2500m with a take off at 1200m that pushed the performance of my motor to the limits.