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Taal Volcano Island

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Taal Island is very basic, almost primitive, in most villages on the island. In the particular village I spent my time, running water and electricity seems to be a luxury unattainable by most. Most huts and families have kerosene lanterns for light and buckets of lake water as their basic resource. Our lights and hammocks attracted crowds to our hut as they were much more powerful than the aged and deplete hand lights they had acquired sometime ago. We ended up giving the locals our lights when parting ways.

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Taal Island is very basic, almost primitive, in most villages on the island. In the particular village I spent my time, running water and electricity seems to be a luxury unattainable by most. Most huts and families have kerosene lanterns for light and buckets of lake water as their basic resource. Our lights and hammocks attracted crowds to our hut as they were much more powerful than the aged and deplete hand lights they had acquired sometime ago. We ended up giving the locals our lights when parting ways.


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