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The Taal Lake, also known as Talisay Lake and Bombón Lake, is a circular fresh water lake located in the Province of Batangas, in Southern Luzon with over 26,700 hectares.

As a child, I frequented my great grandaunt’s house by the ridge of Tagaytay City, overlooking Taal Lake. Every year, I was awestruck by the beauty of Taal Volcano, its 1.5 km by 0.3 km crater, and the serenity of Taal Lake.

Ken Jennings reported Taal Lake was once part of the ocean a few hundred years ago. It was an arm of Balayan Bay, which opens to the West Philippine Sea. During the 18th century, a series of eruptions filled in the entrance to the inlet, isolating it from the ocean except for one narrow river. Jennings also alludes to the Taal tale that begins with the Taal peak’s current cone as an island rising out of the Lake Caldera, which is called Volcano Island. The smaller crater of Volcano Island is now filled with rainwater. Yellow Lake or Main Crater Lake is more than half a mile across, making it the world’s largest “double” lake: “It’s a lake on an island on a lake on an island.”

The Batangas locals sometimes claim that a rock outcropping from the Main Crater Lake, called Vulcan Point, is the world’s largest “triple” island: “An island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.”

In the middle of Taal Lake sits an island called the Volcano Island. On the Volcano Island is a volcano named Taal Volcano. The volcano’s crater formed another lake (Yellow Lake/Main Crater Lake). Thus, there is a lake (the Yellow/Main Crater Lake) within a volcanic crater (Taal Volcano) on an island (the Volcano Island) in a lake (Taal Lake) in an island (Luzon).

When viewing this complexity from the Tagaytay Ridge, the Taal Volcano in Taal Lake view is one of the most picturesque locations in the Philippines.

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