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Hotel Petra, JI. Agung, Rp400. Pleksant Hotel Merdeka, Rp2000 double. Restaurant Asia is expensive. For information, see the man in the blue and cream rumah makan in back of the bus station. Next morning take a truck, oplet or hitch up to the 2093 m high village of Dieng. The road passes tobacco plantations, rugged steep landscapes with clouds below the road, bamboo aquaducts, pale eucalyptus, sleeping volcanoes. See Kawah Si Kidang, a crater with smoking boiling sulpher mud, and Kawah Si Led, another large crater with whitish smoke and water. Telaga Merdada Lake, surrounded by green hills, has cool weather, misty pines, wild roses.