Mount Merapi National Park
Indonesia
Merapi is the active volcano above Yogyakarta in central Java, and the way most people visit it is the jeep tour:…
71 tickets & tours
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A volcano park can mean a night climb to a crater rim, a walk across a lava field that is a few years old, or a bath in a hot river. Indonesia sells the first: Bromo at sunrise, the two-day Rinjani trek, jeep tours on the flank of Merapi. The Canaries and Reunion offer high roads, cable cars and marked trails across recent flows. Costa Rica’s Arenal, Poas, Irazu and Rincon de la Vieja are half-day visits with hot springs attached, and Yellowstone and Hawaii Volcanoes are road parks where the geysers and the lava lake come to the visitor.
Indonesia
Merapi is the active volcano above Yogyakarta in central Java, and the way most people visit it is the jeep tour:…
71 tickets & tours
Indonesia
Mount Rinjani is the volcano that fills the north of Lombok, Indonesia's second highest peak, and the park exists…
54 tickets & tours
Canary Islands, Spain
Teide is the volcano at the centre of Tenerife and the most visited national park in Spain, and it is reached from…
48 tickets & tours
Costa Rica
Arenal is the volcano above La Fortuna, three hours from San José, and the town has become Costa Rica's adventure…
35 tickets & tours
Costa Rica
Rincón de la Vieja is the volcano park an hour north of Liberia in Guanacaste, and it is sold in two different ways…
27 tickets & tours
Wyoming, United States
Yellowstone occupies the north-western corner of Wyoming, overlapping into Montana and Idaho, and it is a very large…
27 tickets & tours
Ecuador
Cotopaxi is the perfect snow cone south of Quito, two hours from the capital, and it is Ecuador's most visited…
26 tickets & tours
Kenya
Longonot is the volcano on the floor of the Rift Valley an hour and a half north-west of Nairobi, and it is sold as a…
19 tickets & tours
France
The national park covers the mountainous interior of Réunion, the French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar,…
15 tickets & tours
Canary Islands, Spain
Timanfaya is the lava field of south-western Lanzarote, half an hour from the island's resorts, and it is a park…
13 tickets & tours
Dominica
Morne Trois Pitons National Park occupies the mountainous southern centre of Dominica, the wildest and least developed…
11 tickets & tours
Hawaii, United States
Hawaii Volcanoes is the park of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the south-east of the Big Island, forty-five minutes from Hilo…
10 tickets & tours
Iceland
Fjallabak is a reserve in the uninhabited southern highlands of Iceland, a wilderness of multicoloured rhyolite…
8 tickets & tours
Indonesia
Bromo is the most famous volcano in Indonesia, a smoking crater standing in a vast plain of grey sand inside an older…
7 tickets & tours
Nicaragua
Mombacho is the broad, forested, cloud-capped volcano that stands behind the colonial city of Granada in Nicaragua, its…
7 tickets & tours
Guatemala
Pacaya is the active volcano an hour and a half from Antigua and an hour from Guatemala City, and the half-day hike up…
7 tickets & tours
Kenya
The Chyulu Hills are the long green volcanic range that runs between Amboseli and Tsavo West in southern Kenya, and…
6 tickets & tours
Cape Verde
Fogo is the volcano island of Cape Verde, reached by a half-hour flight from Praia on Santiago to the airstrip at São…
6 tickets & tours
Mexico
Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, the second and third highest mountains of Mexico, stand side by side on the eastern rim…
6 tickets & tours
New Zealand
Tongariro is the volcanic heart of New Zealand's North Island, four and a half hours'
6 tickets & tours
Campania, Italy
Vesuvius stands nine kilometres east of Naples, and the visit that nearly everyone makes is the walk to the rim of the…
6 tickets & tours
Taiwan
Yangmingshan is the volcanic massif on the northern edge of Taipei, so close that city buses climb into it from the…
6 tickets & tours
Uganda
Mgahinga is Uganda's smallest national park, in the extreme south-western corner of the country above the town of…
5 tickets & tours
Chile
Villarrica National Park rises directly behind Pucón, the adventure capital of Chile's Lake District, about nine…
5 tickets & tours
Access changes with the volcano’s mood. Craters close when gas levels rise, summit permits are rationed, as on Teide, and an eruption can shut a park for months or make it the most visited place in the country. Check the alert level before you pay for anything that cannot be cancelled. Every page notes the height you climb, whether a guide is compulsory, the clothing the summit needs at dawn and the months when cloud is least likely to hide what you came to see.