Let's continue the Chapter One. First stop. The driver dropped us off in front of a gate; the Telaga Warna (the Lake of Colors). There were so many people there, our driver said it’s just because of the peak season, usually the place is almost empty. After several steps only, we found the lake. Green and serene.

It started drizzling, but didn’t affect the beauty. The place is surrounded by green rain forest and some hills. Fog never stopped covering the area. We walked slowly along the bank of the lake and found several “weird” places too nearby. You can see some caves, tight kind of caves, almost look like wells. The boards glued in front of those caves say, people use the caves for meditation.

Anyways, back to the lake. It’s named the Lake of Colors (Telaga Warna – in Indonesian) because the color of the water keeps changing depends on the weather and time. Sometimes it turns green, yellow and blue. A local fairy tale says, once upon a time, there was a magical ring owned by a rich man, sank into the lake. Now it shines whenever the weather changes. In fact, volcanic experts say, it is a volcanic lake, the sulfur reflects the sun light into several colors continuously.

Next to the Telaga Warna, there is another lake called Telaga Pengilon (the Lake of Mirror). For me, it looked more like a swamp than a lake. But yes, the water was clear as mirror. Local people say, the water can see deeply into your heart! Look at the water closely, if you appear beautiful, then you are a good person. And if you appear ugly, then you are not really a nice person. Errr…. I didn’t try it, it was too risky :p

We spent about half an hour at the place. It was freezing. Actually, we can go to the theatre nearby to watch the history of Dieng Plateau, but too bad, we did not have enough time. After buying two farmer caps for both of us, we continued the trip.

Part III will be the last chapter; crater and complex of temples. I have to wait for a good mood to write them down :p [to be continued]