Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines is one of the more unusual hikes in the world.

Climbing Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines is an adventure not for the fainthearted. It must rank as one of the great hikes of the world but it’s a long, hot walk to the crater through weirdly beautiful yet desolate scenery Mount Pinatubo rumbled awake, after 600 years of peace, during June 1991. The inferno which followed displaced almost a million people from Central Luzon and destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland. About 41,000 homes were destroyed and hundreds of people died.