The Philippine Gallery
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A small, barren, uninhabited island off the coast of Palawan is one of the 7,100 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Like much of the country's land, it is unsuitable for human settlement.
Lake Taal lies in a low volcanic crater. Rising from the lake is the
Active Volcano Island, which contains another crater lake.
The Banaue rice terraces in Ifugao province, northern Luzon, are among the many terraces painstakingly cut into sides of the Cordillera Central. Some of the terrace steps exceed 20 feet in height.
A man wears a decorated mask in the Moriones festival on Marinduque.
Centuries-old celebrations that blend religious and secular elements are still held in the Philippines. A woman, center, holds up a statue of Jesus Christ in the Sinulog festival on Cebu.
Mount Mayon, which last erupted in 1984, is the most active volcano in the Philippines. The almost perfectly cone-shaped mountain is in Albay province, southeast Luzon.