Shooting the Rapids at Pagsanjan and Taal's 38 Recorded Eruptions

Two rivers of a sort in one day: one you ride, one you look at. Pagsanjan is reached in a dugout canoe, which these days is fibreglass rather than wood. Two licensed boatmen row it upstream through a narrow river, working it past rocks and around obstacles the whole way. Twenty minutes gets you to the first fall, and then on to the main one. Coming back down is what locals call shooting the rapids, and it is the part people remember. Tagaytay is on every Philippine itinerary because of where it sits: directly above the active crater of Taal, cool enough to be a relief after Manila, with the crater lake below. The People's Park in the Sky is there too, still unfinished and famous for it. Taal itself is a large caldera filled by its own lake, in Batangas province. It is the second most active volcano in the country, with 38 eruptions on the record, the most recent in January 2022. A local boat takes the group in close. Cancel at least 24 hours before departure for a full refund.