Philippine Vacations Travel Sceneries

Mayon Volcano

admin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:23:28 +0000

Mayon Volcano is an active volcano in the Philippines on the island of Luzon, in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region. Its almost perfectly-shaped cone is considered by some to be the Philippine equivalent of Mount Fuji in Japan. The volcano is situated 15 kilometres northwest of Legazpi City.

Mayon is classified by volcanologists as a stratovolcano (composite volcano). Its symmetric cone was formed through alternate pyroclastic and lava flows. Mayon is the most active volcano in the country, having erupted over 50 times in the past 400 years.It is located between the Eurasian and the Philippine Plate, at a convergent plate boundary: where a continental plate meets an oceanic plate, the lighter continental plate overrides the oceanic plate, forcing it down; magma is formed where the rock melts. Like other volcanoes located around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, Mayon is a part of the “Pacific Ring of Fire”.

Chocolate Hills

admin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:38:18 +0000

Are you a chocolate lover? Then you would also probably get in love with the 1,268 chocolate hills as you witness them from the 214 step-observation hill at Carmen, Bohol, Philippines during a dry and sunny season.
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Philippine Tarsier

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:09:47 +0000

Many rare animals have been discovered living in the haven of the Philippine forests. One of them is the tarsier or Tarsius Syrichta, its scientific name, which is found in Bohol, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao. This creature is no larger than an adult man’s hand thus it is considered as one of the minutest primates in the globe. Most of the people also regard tarsier as the “smallest monkey” due to some of its physical features, internal structures and habits that are alike to monkeys. However, many scientific studies proved that it is not under the Suborder Anthropoid of apes and monkeys. It has been found to belong to the Suborder Prosimian where lemurs and bushbabies belong. Few of the evidences were Tarsier is a nocturnal animal, possesses claws and bicornuate uterus or two uterus shaped like horn – very the same with the Prosimians. Here is the taxonomic classification of the Tarsier: Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Suborder Prosimii/Haplorrhini, Infraorder Tarsiiformes, Superfamily Tarsioidea.

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