[ Free interactive field trip · Mayon Volcano, Bicol ]

Stand before Mayon.
Then step inside the story.

Mayon is a free, true-scale volcano explorer that turns a remarkable landscape into a living lesson—through guided stories, historical places, explanatory interiors, and carefully framed hazard scenarios.

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Explore

Fly from rice fields to the summit.

Read the cone at true scale and find the landscape around it.

Remember

Follow the places that hold the history.

Move between Cagsawa, Daraga, Legazpi, and Mayon's changing slopes.

Understand

Learn to see evidence and uncertainty.

Compare observations, reconstructions, and the limits of a public model.

[ Important safety boundary ]

Mayon is not a live alert, monitoring, forecast, evacuation, navigation, or emergency-response system. Its hazard graphics are educational scenarios. For current volcanic activity and safety instructions, use PHIVOLCS and local authorities.

[ Made for shared discovery ]

A launch point for the classroom, a museum screen, or an evening of curiosity.

For educators

Start a 20–45 minute lesson with a ready-to-use route, student prompts, QR poster, and slides.

Open the Teacher Launch Kit

For Bicol and visitors

Reconnect familiar views, landmarks, and memory with the larger geologic landscape beneath them.

Begin the journey

For volcano learners

Use an approachable model to discuss hazards, evidence, uncertainty, and the science of active volcanoes.

Review methods and sources

What the experience includes

  • True-scale terrain and a navigable view of Mayon and its surrounding landscape.
  • Guided stops for cone formation, the 1814 Cagsawa disaster, 2018 activity, Daraga, and nearby places.
  • Illustrative lava, pyroclastic-density-current, ash, and lahar scenarios for discussion.
  • An interior explainer that distinguishes what is observed, inferred, reconstructed, and unknown.
  • Teacher materials for a short lesson, student worksheet, QR poster, and slide deck.

How to use it in class

  1. 1. Start with the main view and ask learners to identify the cone, towns, fields, and drainage paths.
  2. 2. Use Story or Places mode to connect geology with Cagsawa, Daraga, Legazpi, and lived landscape.
  3. 3. Turn on a hazard scenario and discuss both the process shown and what the visualization cannot establish.
  4. 4. Use the source links and official agencies to distinguish a model from current public-safety information.

[ Methods and evidence ]

What the visual model can—and cannot—say

Surface: terrain and imagery are presented as an educational rendering at true scale. They are not a survey product or a substitute for field measurement.

History: short historical chapters simplify a complex eruption record so learners can begin to ask better questions. They do not recreate every event or impact.

Interior: chamber, dike, and hydrothermal forms are conceptual inferences, not direct subsurface imagery.

Hazards: corridors and routes are teaching overlays informed by terrain and documented hazard context. They are never location-specific advice or a forecast.

Mayon methods and sourcesMaha Strategies project overview

Access and privacy

The public interactive is free and does not require an account. The mobile app uses no advertising, in-app purchases, native analytics SDK, or push notifications. The companion website uses anonymous, cookie-free aggregate analytics.

Read the Mayon privacy policy

Mobile app status

Android and iOS versions are being prepared for store release. Until they are available, the complete interactive is accessible on the web. The mobile version uses the same educational and safety boundaries described here.

Questions and corrections

For a source correction, classroom feedback, accessibility request, or collaboration inquiry, contact mayone@mahastrategies.com. This address is not an emergency channel.

Last documentation review: 26 July 2026.