Monday, 15 February 2016

Mount Mayon, Albay
- Best known as the Mayon Volcano, Mount Mayon is an active volcano        located in Legaspi City, Albay. It is one of the best nature spot in the       Philippines mainly because of its “perfect cone” formation which is almost in symmetric conical shape.

Bulkang Mayon (locally coined term) is actually the most active volcano in the Philippines with over 48 times recorded eruptions in the past 400 years.

Fast Facts:
The most destructive eruption of Mayon occurred on February 1, 1814. The Volcano was belching dark ash and eventually bombarding the town with tephra that buried the town of Cagsawa.

Today, only the bell tower of the Church of the Cagsawa which was largely destroyed during the 1814 eruption of the said volcano.


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