Tourism revives Pinatubo landscape

TARLAC CITY, Philippines — What was once buried under ash and lahar from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption has been transformed into one of Central Luzon’s leading ecotourism destinations, now sustaining Indigenous communities and residents who spent decades rebuilding their lives after the disaster.

Thirty-five years after the eruption displaced about 1.2 million people across ...