We have come to Philippines to see mainly exotic nature. But the culture and people here are the reason why you should come here! We have been in Legazpi for 4 days because of rain and although the city is not beautiful one, we enjoyed the stay here so much! Everywhere you go you meet so nice people, it is such big relief after spent time, for example, in Vietnam 🙂
But why Legazpi? Mayon volcano and Cagsawa ruins (eruption in 19th centre) are the biggest attractions. Mayon is very unique due to its perfect conic shape, I read somewhere that there are just two volcanos like that in the world (Mayon and Fuji in Japan). But Mayon likes to be covered in the clouds, stupid volcano 🙂 There is legend about a girl and boy who died young, she represents Mayon and he is the clouds hugging her. So at least romantic when cloudy 🙂
And we have visited a black beach in Santo Domingo where the black sand is caused by the volcano activity. Very interesting and strange colour for the sand, but surprisingly water has very nice blue colour. We have also met great people there, celebrating their reunion after 40 years from high school. That was super fun 🙂 And as Honzik celebrates his 30’s birthday, he had to try local speciality – “balot” – 15 days old baby duck embryo in the egg… Brrr 😀
Na Filipiny jsme prijeli hlavne poznat exotickou prirodu. Ale oslnila nas mistni kultura a super lide, kteri jsou hlavnim duvodem, proc sem vyrazit. V Legazpi jsme stravili kvuli desti ctyri dny, a prestoze to neni vubec hezke mesto, moc se nam tu libilo 🙂 Vsude potkate skvele lidi, je to obrovska uleva po case stravenem napr. ve Vietnamu…
A proc Legazpi? Hlavnim duvodem je vulkan Mayon a Cagsawa ruiny (vybuch sopky v 19.stoleti). Mayon je velmi unikatni sopka diky pravidelnemu konickemu tvaru. Internet rika, ze na svete jsou takove jen dve, Mayon a Fuji v Japonsku. Mayon se ale casto schovava v mracich, blbec 🙂 Dle legendy zde zemreli mlada divka, ktera predstavuje prave Mayon, a chlapec, ktery je mrakem, co sopku objima. Tak aspon romanticky mrak 😀
Take jsme se jeli podivat na cernou plaz do Santo Domingo, kde barva pisku je zpusobena sopecnou aktivitou. Dost zajimava a zvlastni barva pro pisek, barva more je prekvapive krasne modra 🙂 Potkali jsme zde super lidicky, kteri slavili setkani ze stredni po 40 letech… Super zabava! 🙂 A jelikoz Honzik dnes slavil sve tricatiny, musel vyzkouset mistni specialitku – “balot” – embryo kachnete stare 15 dni… Brrr 😀