Strung out along a high ridge overlooking stunning Lake Taal and the multiple craters of active Taal volcano, Tagaytay is a thoroughly absorbing town where you could easily spend a couple of days admiring the views, hiking the volcano, sailing on the lake and dining out in style. Tagaytay tourists love to admire the view of the volcano island called as ‘Taal’. Most of them are contented by simply admiring it from the ridge or highlands of Tagaytay, while some (but not a lot) of them would choose to cross the water and hike to take a closer look at it.About 600m below Tagaytay, Lake Taal and Volcano Island lie within a massive prehistoric volcano crater measuring roughly 75km around. This ancient crater forms Tagaytay Ridge, upon which the town is haphazardly draped like a set of Russian matryoshka dolls. Taal Volcano in turn encircles its own little crater lake, itself containing a small island.
Lying just 60km south of Manila, Tagaytay is everything the capital is not: cool, clean, gorgeous and oxygenated.
