National Geographic Travelのインスタグラム(natgeotravel) - 5月29日 18時42分

photo by @andrea_frazzetta // Mount Ijen, on the Island of Java, Indonesia, hosts one of the last remaining active sulfur mines in the world.
Active since 1968, the mine produces 14 tons of sulfur per day, which is mainly exported to China and Southeast Asia.
Sulfur it is used to refine sugar, to produce sulfuric acid, and it can be found in many products of regular use such as medicines, cosmetics, matches, fertilizer, insecticides, and fungicides.
Considered a form of cultural heritage tourism, mine tours can be found around the world from Africa to Australia. Unlike Mount Ijen, few are still active, and many have been “museumified.”
Some researchers propose tourists are attracted to these sites because they elicit what philosophers have termed “the sublime”—a feeling of pleasure in seeing a dangerous but awe-inspiring object, like a violent act of nature. Victor Hugo defined it as “a combination of the grotesque and beautiful as opposed to the classical ideal of perfection.”
Mount Ijen is sublime.
“Sulfur Road” my latest assignment for National Geographic is online, check it on NatGeo website and follow @andrea_frazzetta to know more about this story #natgeotravel #ijen #java #indonesia #sulfur #miners

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