Your hotel - Senaru Village - Sembalun Village - Crater Rim Sembalun Campsite

Our driver will pick you up at hotel lobby by 04.00-04:30 AM (Depend on your hotel location) transfer direct to Senaru village. Check in at our office, Breakfast, and Meet the guide and crew for Trekking Briefing, then transfer to Sembalun Village. Before start trekking, you are mandatory to do final registration and scan the barcode of your Trekking Pass at Rinjani National Park Registration Office in Sembalun Lawang (1,156 m). Please make sure you already have the trekking pass, you can ask our staff or download from your dashboard; prepare your passport for verification too.

The trek at sembalun will start with the gentle ascend walking through the village, farm area and the open grassland (Savanna) used as cattle grazing by local people. You can see and enjoy the hills of Sembalun and the body of rinjani while your walking.

ATTENTION: Walking through open grassland, sun heat will rise the temperature quickly; please use sunblock and hat. Walking will be more comfortable using short than long pant.

About 2 hours from the gate, you will arrive at Post I (Rest area - Pemantauan - 1.300 masl). Less than another one hour, you will arrive at Post II (Lunch Point - Tengengean - 1.800 masl); here you will enjoy the view while having the lunch.

Post III (Rest area - Padabalong - 1.800 masl) will be about 1,5 hours walk from Post II. and need other 3 -3.5 Hours walking trough steep trail inside the cemara (pine-Casuarinas species) forest before arrive at Pelawangan (Crater Rim Sembalun) Camp area (2.639 masl). Expecting to arrive before sunset; you can enjoy sunset with a cup of coffee or tea while crew preparing your dinner.

After dinner, you can have nice sleep; reload energy for early morning (2 am) walk up before summit attack the next day.