Taal Volcano Island

USA | Thursday, 4 July 2013 | Views [267] | View Smaller Image

Long after the last tourists have left the island and the sun has set, families gather at the one hut in their village powered by a single gas generator to enjoy a warm hot plate of food under bright lights while enjoying the moments with family, cousins, and relatives laughing about everything and almost anything.

Life on Taal Volcano island remains mundane with limited resources and few opportunites for improving quality of living and well-being. After a long day of catering to tourists and thrillseekers, a father spends his evening with son bathing him on their family boat along the shore of the 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 Volcano Island

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