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For the more adventurous travelers, Taal Volcano offers
a good hike to its island crater in the middle of Taal Lake.
Taal Volcano is acclaimed to be the world's smallest and
deadliest volcano, with a recorded 33 eruptions. The last
eruption in 1965 caused devastation and the loss of several
hundred lives.
The Taal tour can be done on a full day from
Manila. It is best approached through Talisay, one of the
lake shore towns around the lake, where a motorized outrigger
takes you to the island. The island hike to the old crater
cone is of gradual difficulty and takes about an hour each
way.
The volcano has more than 40 identified cones
or depressions, one which was formed in the 1911 eruption
that shaped a lake inside its crater and formed an island
within. Thus, Taal is wittingly described as "an island
within an island within a lake".
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