Over the last few weeks I’ve been travelling around the Philippines again. Currently I’m on Luzon, near Naga city. We’re driving our motorcycles all over the place. We originally planned to go via Masbate Island to reach Cebu Island.
However, news of Mount Mayon and it’s “imminent and violent eruptions” kept coming in. So we decided to change course for this probably once in a lifetime experience. We drove to Legaspi City via the up-wind route, avoiding the major ash and dust clouds spewing to the east.
The city is right next to the volcano, just outside the actual danger zone which was evacuated several weeks ago. This basically meant we had a good view of the goings on.
I had filmed part of the drive going there. And when I was close to Legaspi City got caught off-guard with a larger eruption of ash.
I’ve made a bit of a video about the route going there where you can see the mountain smoking in the distance. Later I filmed the mountain stationary for a few hours. But not much came of that, just a lot of clouds and ash coming out.
