Saddle up: Indonesia's Mount Bromo park to impose car-free month

Tour guides riding their horses past jeeps that take tourists to the sea of sand at the Tengger Caldera, East Java, where Mount Bromo is located.- JP/ANN

MALANG (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The management of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS) in East Java says it will implement a car ban for a month around the Tengger Caldera beginning on Jan 24.

With the policy, motorised vehicles will not be allowed to enter the caldera area, which consists of five volcanoes including Mount Bromo, Laut Pasir (sea of sand) and the savanna surrounding the mountains.