Discovery Tour: Taal crater hike and town heritage tour
The majestic Taal Volcano
UPDATES: Due to some Volcanic Alert activity and recent quake activity in Taal area reported by PHILVOCS latest November 30, this trip is indefinitely postponed.
Hi guys, this is an open invitation so anyone can join!
Date: December 3, 2005 Saturday
Highlights of the trip:
+ Taal crater hike
- Experience hiking on the world’s smallest active volcano.
- One of the “1000 places to see before you die”
- see the mysterious Crater Lake with its famous “island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island” attraction
+ Basilica of San Martin de Tours
- The impressive Basilica Minore of St. Martin of Tours, built between 1858 and 1878, is considered to be the biggest in all of Southeast Asia.
+ Taal Town
- The Taal Heritage Village rivals Vigan for the best-preserved relics of the Spanish colonial era
- Leon Apacible Historical Landmark
- Marcela Marino Agoncillo Museum and Monument
- Church of Our Lady of Casaysay
- Barrio Balisong
Tour Itinerary
0530 Assembly at Makati, ayala terminal
0600 ETD for San Nicolas
0800 ETA San Nicolas Town Hall
0830 ETD for Taal Island
0900 ETA Dock on Island, start of hike
1000 ETA Taal Summit crater (option to visit other craters
1100 Descent
1130 ETD for San Nicolas
1200 ETA San Nicolas, Lunch
1300 ETD for Lemery
1330 ETA Basilica Minore of St. Martin of Tours
1430 Exploration of other sites
1800 ETD for Manila
2000 ETA Makati, Ayala Terminal
*Schedule in the afternoon is flexible as long as we follow our target departure
Budget: Php 500.00 at most, bring your own snacks and meals (there’s an option to eat there but meals are expensive)
About the Discovery tour: This is not a Carlos Celdran or Ivan organized “Heritage” tours. Some of us, including I, have never been to the so called places mentioned in the highlight, so I call it “Discovery” since that’s the point of it all.
Important things to bring:
- Bottled water (very hot on the crater)
- Wide brimmed hat/ Bush Hat/ Cap
- Trail snacks
- Extra set of clothes
Deadline of confirmation for attendees will be on Nov 30 (Wednesday). We need to finalize headcount for transportation pruposes.
Those who are interested may email me at ferdz02@yahoo.com or text me at 09282838252
Thank you
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005 at 2:12 pm 
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November 24th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
maayong adlaw, bai! lagal[og] here. thanks for dropping by. enjoyed navigating and reading your site din. it’s interesting to read about other lagalags hehehe. anyway, there’s more photos of pinatubo, pulag, camiguin, sagada, etc. in my flickr site — feel free to visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/oggie
and if you don’t mind, i’ll link you up to my blog din. thanks! and hope to see you around somewhere!
God bless!
lagal[oggie]
November 24th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
sama ako….
November 24th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
hi, ironwulf.
since you’re one of the best filipino photobloggers (according to philippineblogawards.com) may i invite you to send some of your favorite photos (taken by yourself) - i am interested in featuring you and your photo in my new photo blog.
thanks!
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November 25th, 2005 at 5:09 am
deym, nde ako aabot sa pag-uwi ko and i want to come!!!
November 25th, 2005 at 7:43 am
What a sight. I love the volcanic crater.
November 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
pwde ba sumama?
ok to ah…
November 27th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
hi ferdz! it’s been a long while i haven’t visited! i love this new(?) design. Not to mention those photographs…very informative, interesting.
I’d love to go, but i’m not quite sure about the date. I’ve been to the crater in 2000, beautiful view i was surprised at the color yellow. It was a summer’s day, too hot to enjoy.
Anyways, hope you gather up a great team of adventurers…Take care and enjoy!!!
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:49 am
[...] I’ve always have been interested in trying to hike the crater of the volcano. Finally I was able to do this. The Taal Discovery tour was supposed to take place November last year, but was cancelled due to volcanic activity at that time. Well it pushed through with the help of Miss Ruby of MFPI and 27 participants from Accenture. I was surprised at the sheer number as I was not used to leading such a number and was keen more into taking photos and not having to worry about them. Well Miss Ruby did well in organizing with me on the background for support and Benjie of Accenture overlooking his invited participants. I also thought it would be ok since this is only a daytrip so it pushed through. [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
just read this now, i am late by two years!
any chance that there’s a group out there willing to do this again? also, is it a difficult hike? am not the most athletic person in the world 