30th June 2012
Type of activity:Lava dome growth.
Photos: 6
Revisited Merapi again on the 30th June in the purpose of getting a view from the south and to continue locating safe GPS locations for photography ahead of a potential eruption in the future (the locations where these photos were taken is tough a hazard area for pyroclastic flows and lahars). During the last visit in May I got a very good view from the west of the Volcano, but at that time it was cloudy when I got to the south. This time the weather was mostly good, however I arrived in the area a bit too late as haze had already start to build up
![View of Merapi from Kali urang river. The river does not contain much water in the dry season.](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.oysteinlundandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Merapi-volcano-June2012-x0.jpg)
![ver closer to the volcano. Lots of debris from the 2010 eruption on the dry riverbed.](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.oysteinlundandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Merapi-volcano-June2012-x1.jpg)
![Merapi from the south and the northern face of the crater, where the pyroclastic flows have travelled during the last eruptions.](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.oysteinlundandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Merapi-volcano-June2012-x2.jpg)
![he new lava dome can be spotted inside the crater. During the visit it showed steaming during short periods of time, as can be noticed in the photo below.](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.oysteinlundandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Merapi-volcano-June2012-x3.jpg)
![The close up on the northern face of the top shows why the pyroclastic flows and debrice from the volcano, tend to travel downhill from this side.](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.oysteinlundandersen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Merapi-volcano-June2012-x4.jpg)