ADVENTURE DAY TOUR PACKAGES

Day tours offering light to medium treks that is a few hours from Manila. All prices include guide services, roundtrip private air-conditioned transportation from Manila for a minimum of two persons.

Taal Volcano Trek

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It involves a leisurely ride through Tagaytay City and its scenic surroundings followed by a 30-minute boatride to Taal Volcano- a lake within a lake, a volcano within a volcano, considered as the smallest volcano in the world.

Facts about Taal Volcano
Taal Volcano is a Pelean-type active volcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is situated between the towns of Talisay and San Nicolas in Batangas. It consists of an island in Lake Taal, which is situated within a caldera formed by an earlier, very powerful eruption. It is located about 50 km from the capital, Manila.

The volcano has erupted violently several times, causing loss of life in the populated areas surrounding the lake, the current death toll standing at around 5,000 - 6,000. Because of its proximity to populated areas and eruptive history, the volcano has been designated a Decade Volcano worthy of close study to prevent future natural disasters.

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Subic Jungle Trek

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There you will be shown how to locate sources of portable water, set up traps using only naturally occurring materials, and much more.

Facts about Subic Jungle
When the US military bases were here the Subic tropical rainforest was home to the only Asian jungle survival training school. Located inside the former US Military Base that occupies a portion of Bataan and Zambales, participants trek thru the heart of a rainforest guided by the local Aetas, the same indigenous people who helped train the U.S. Navy Seals and Special Forces Units how to survive in the Jungle? The United States Military troops learned many survival and warfare tactics from the indigenous Aetas people in these same forests during the Vietnam war.

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Mt. Pinatubo Trek

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A leisurely drive through Pampanga followed by a 4-wheel rugged terrain ride along lahar devastated areas to the crater of Mt. Pinatubo. Conservation fee is also included.
Hot springs, cool mountain pools, lahar fields, canyons, and remains of mudflow-destroyed towns that all lead to the scenic Mt. Pinatubo crater will surely ignite your yearning for a different adventure route.

Facts about Mt. Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga. Ancestral Pinatubo was a stratovolcano made of andesite and dacite. Before 1991, the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily eroded. It was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people, the Aeta, who had fled to the mountains from the lowlands when the Spanish conquered the Philippines in 1565.

The volcano's eruption in June 1991 produced the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. The 1991 eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6, and came some 450-500 years after the volcano's last known eruptive activity (estimated as VEI 5, the level of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens), and some 500-1000 years after previous VEI 6 eruptive activity. Successful predictions of the onset of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, saving many lives, but surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later by lahars caused by rainwater remobilizing earlier volcanic deposits: thousands of houses and other buildings were destroyed.
 

The effects of the eruption were felt worldwide. It ejected roughly 10 billion metric tons of magma, and 20 million tons of SO2, bringing vast quantities of minerals and metals to the surface environment. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere—more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone depletion temporarily increased substantially.

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