This was the earliest morning during this tour.

We left the hotel as early as 03:45; first using the vans to get to the starting point of the climb – and from there by foot uphill for around 1.5 hours.

I was part of the first group from our bigger group to make it up. The rest eventually arrived just 20 minutes later – as did the clouds that also did come in around that time.

On the way down the clouds moved and we could actually see that we were just getting down a volcano within a volcano.

After the hike we had earned a refreshing dip into the pool of a nearby resort (with additional smaller pools fed by hot springs.