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The Anyer area on the west coast of Java is a great getaway just a few hours from the crash and bash of Jakarta. With the advent of long stretches of Toll Roads, we drove straight to Anyer - A two and a half hour drive which passes through the industrial district of Krakatoa where the largest steel plant of Indonesia resides.

The recent tsunami disaster inarguably brought lasting effects of devastation. Not only it had destroyed many beautiful and exotic places, its claws of paranoia also reached deep and far into other tourism areas in Indonesia. The attractive Anyer Beach surely is one of them. When we set off from International Airport, Jakarta on a hot Sunday morning, the 100-km highway that connects Jakarta to Cilegon, Anyer's nearest town, was far from crowded - Luis my focal point of contact from PCI - Indonesia mentioned that Sundays unlike rest of the week have sparse traffic. White clouds sparsely decorated the clear blue sky, signaling a pleasant, rain-free weather ahead.


Although our right and left sides were rich with greenery, the drive itself was rather dull and sleep-inducing. In Fact I had not slept in the previous 24 odd hours as I had travelled from New Delhi - Singapore - Jakarta. Not the fault of the airlines but my penchant for movies and the personalised "on demand movies" in modern airlines provide the privilege which few can overlook. Not until we passed through Cilegon, home to many heavy industries, that my eyes began to see extravagant things, such as the tall towers that exhaled pure-white smoke, and the monstrous machineries. Beyond all that, the palm trees were always in sight, constituting a familiar seaside backdrop.



After we passed that industrial complex, the road got its dullness back. But we were already too excited to be bothered with that. Many hotels began to appear as we advanced farther west, mostly on our right side. Our left side was filled with fish markets and restaurants, ranging from the most ordinary to the most ornate, yet every place was silent and devoid of people.


We arrived at Pisita Anyer, a Beachside resort hotel, and were received with an unusual warmth from the hotel staff. There were very few guests, the tsunami effect had hit the tourism business in this area very terribly, so they had to make the best to stay alive through this unfortunate situation.


Alas, Anyer doesn't have a sandy beach where people can play at. Instead, its beach is rocky. Anyer has all that tropical seashore serenity guaranteed to iron out those stress fractured faces though– calm blue water, tall curving coconut trees, cool sea breezes and red/orange sunsets.

I had recently been to Anyer Beach in Banten district of Indonesia. The Krakatoa was spewing ash a little distance away within the city. As I was driving back to Jakarta, discussions with my local companions held out the recent happening of an Australian Lady who was visiting the Krakatoa on a boat, was hit by a spewed stone and was burnt severely. She expired on the way to hospital a four hour boat ride away. The Krakatoa and its legends are many in number among the locals. As I looked at Krakatoa, I shivered, it was an eerie yet awe-inspiring sight.

Let us some facts about the volcano Krakatoa. It is located on Rakata, an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, Indonesia. Its eruption in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic ever witnessed in recorded history.

Theories as to the origin of the Indonesian name Krakatau include:
- Onomatopoeia, imitating the noise made by white parrots that used to inhabit the island.
- From Sanskrit karka or karkata or karkataka, meaning "lobster" or "crab".
- From Malayan kelakatu, meaning "white-winged ant".

Until recently, its only known previous eruption was a moderate one in 1680. On the afternoon of Aug. 26, 1883, the first of a series of increasingly violent explosions occurred. A black cloud of ash rose 17 miles (27 kilometers) above Krakatoa. On the morning of the next day, tremendous explosions were heard which generated the loudest sound ever historically recorded by human beings — the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (Approx. 3100 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius (Approx. 4800 km). Atmospheric shock waves reverberated around the world seven times and were felt for five days. Ash was propelled to a height of 50 miles (80 kilometers), blocking the sun and plunging the surrounding region into darkness for two and a half days.

The drifting dust caused spectacular red sunsets throughout the following year. Pressure waves in the atmosphere were recorded around the Earth, and tsunamis, or tidal waves, reached as far away as Hawaii and South America. The greatest wave reached a height of 120 feet (36 meters) and took 36,000 lives in the coastal towns of nearby Java and Sumatra. Near the volcano masses of floating pumice produced from lava cooled in the sea were thick enough to halt traveling ships. Everything on the nearby islands was buried under a thick layer of sterile ash. Plant and animal life did not begin to reestablish itself to any degree for five years. The volcano was quiet until 1927, when sporadic weaker eruptions began.

New eruptions at the volcano since 1927 have built a new island, called Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatoa). These tremors have continued into the 1990s. One never knows when the CHILD will call out again for more sacrifice..................