(3 Dec 2017) Bali's glowering Mount Agung has seemingly quietened since hurling huge columns of ash from its crater a week ago.
Ash plumes dissipated in the past few days, but explosions from the smoking crater and tremors still rattle the surrounding region.
Scientists say the danger remains, though making an exact prediction is difficult, if not impossible.
Taking no risks, authorities have maintained Agung's alert at the highest level.
More than 55,000 people are living in makeshift shelters, since officials expanded the no-go area around the volcano on Monday.
Among them are some who survived the volcano's catastrophic 1963 eruption that left about 1,100 people dead.
Nyoman Siki comes from a village located high on the slopes of Agung.
He was six or seven years old in 1963 and remembers it being said that 200 people from his area were killed.
Siki is philosophical about the situation.
When people returned a year after the eruption, he says they were happy because it had renewed the fertility of the land.
In the 1963 eruption, there were small ash explosions in February followed by a lava flow and then a large explosive eruption on 17 March.
A second major eruption occurred two months later.
At the muddy Rendang camp, 78-year-old Nyoman Arse appeared unperturbed by Agung's recent ash eruptions.
He remembers the 1963 disaster in great detail.
Arse says the mountain sent out ash for a month.
It then exploded about the same time as Galungan, an important religious celebration in majority Hindu Bali that in 1963 fell in mid-March.
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