Tagaytay is 2 hours from Manila and makes for an excellent day trip or a weekend getaway. It is the gateway to Taal Lake and Volcano. The city is a popular summer tourist destination because of its cool climate due to its high altitude.
Tagaytay also offers a view of Taal Lake - a lake within an island within a lake.
So we drove from Manila to Tagaytay, We then took a boat across the lake to the Island where the volcano is located. Once we got into the tiny boat, we were asked to cover ourselves with a plastic sheet. I was wondering why..............only to find out in a bit. The water was choppy and as our boat zipped through it, the spray was all over us. Luckily, I had followed their instructions and had covered myself. Not that it mattered as it was quite hot and we would have been dried up in no time.
Taal Lake is a freshwater lake in the province of Batangas, on the island of Luzon, Philippines. The lake is situated within a caldera formed by very large eruptions between 500,000 and 100,000 years ago. It is the country's third largest lake (the largest being Laguna de Bay). Volcano Island, the location of Taal Volcano's historical eruptions and responsible for the lake's sulfuric content, lies near the center of the lake. There is a crater lake on Volcano Island, which is in Lake Taal, which is located on Luzon Island. That crater lake is the world's largest lake on an island in a lake on an island, and it in turn contains its own small island, Vulcan Point.
Source: Wikipedia
The Taal Volcano
You can either walk or take a pony!
The Caldera with mineral deposits.
The view from the top.
Back to Tagaytay
The pretty local boats
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