The best waterfalls in Lumajang Regency

Tumpak Sewu Waterfall - What to Know Before You Go Go in the morning. Afternoon visits mean shooting straight into backlit sun, and by then the crowds have built up too. Morning gets you clearer photos and a quieter trail.

Get a local guide if you can. Ours turned out to be the best part of the whole visit — he sent us more than 200 photos and videos by the end, brought us fruit to try along the way, and organized everyone into an orderly line at each photo spot so nobody missed a shot.

At the entrance there are stalls renting river shoes, around $1.40 USD a pair, with plenty of styles to choose from. There's also a paid toilet, about $0.35 USD, and a paid shower for roughly $0.30 USD — though the shower is combined with the toilet in one very small space. We ended up skipping it and just leaving wet.