The first time I knew of a place called Tagaytay was in 1935 when as a kid I heard my father together with his American colleagues on Corregidor island (where we lived) talked about a place. They had just come from a village we called then barrio, a rustic village atop a hill with deep ravine, a ridge, and then there is a lake, a volcano tip in the middle of that lake. No, they did not come from a camping out trip; they had stopped for the nights at a hotel called Taal Vista Lodge, which I found out later was established as early as the coming of the Americans in 1900. The barrio people called their place Tagaytay, which I then mimicked as TagaTaytay but the Canos pronounced as Ta Guy. They also pointed to high up in the hill and talked about a stone peak (now called the Marcos peak) which they planned to climb for the next trip.
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