Bledug Kuwu

The Bledug Kuwu is a geological phenomenon in the Kabupaten (department) of Grobogan, in the north of the province of Java Centers in Indonesia. It is about a vast mud field where occurs continuously a succession of explosions of bubbles of Carbon dioxide and of salt water. Bledug Kuwu is in fact a Volcan of mud.

What one sees by far is the rise from the surface of the ground of great quantities of vapor accompanied by a strong detonation similar to a remote clap of thunder. Of near, one observes hemispherical bubbles made of black cotton soil and water approximately 5 meters in diameter which appear with an interval of a few seconds and which swell by reaching a height from 6 to 9 meters. Then these bubbles burst by producing a strong noise, scattering in all the directions a black mud with a strong odor evoking that of the tar and an higher temperature with that of the surrounding air.

In the course of time, this mud created a vast plane and circular surface of approximately 800 meters of circumference. During the rain season, the activity of this mud volcano becomes more violent, the explosions are stronger and mud is projected with a greater height. The water of this mud is salted. The local population recovers the water produced by the explosions and evaporate it with the sun to collect of it the salt, which it sells.

One can go to Bledug Kuwu, either since Semarang, the provincial capital of Java Centers, or since Solo. From there, it is initially necessary to go to Purwodadi, the chief town of the kabupaten (to 64 km in both cases). De Purwodadi in Bledug Kuwu, there are 40 more km.

Another place in the world where one can observe a similar phenomenon is Palo Seco with Trinidad and Tobago in the the Caribbean.

See too

Internal bonds

Volcano of mud mud
Volcano of Sidoarjo

External bonds

Blog "Exotic Java" : ''Bledug Kuwu''

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