Thrown in a volcano: Indonesian devotees gather in thousands to sacrifice fruit, flowers and livestock

Thousands of worshippers trudged up an active Indonesian volcano on Saturday to cast livestock and other offerings down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony. Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from the surrounding highlands to throw fruit, vegetables, flowers and even livestock such as goats and chickens into Mount Bromo’s crater as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival. A long line of worshippers, some with goats slung across their backs, made their way to…