Roadtrip: Basdaku White Sands and Mantayupan

    Moalboal's Basdaku White Sand Beach and Barili's Mantayupan Falls no longer needs introduction. These places have been part of the cebuano summer mainstream. This is why I am so hesitant to make a blog about these places for I might say something that every cebuano blogger have already shared.

    Then I have found something in Basdaku which probably most cebuanos have thought that only its white sand shoreline Basdaku can offer to thrift travelers. Would you believe that we have been wrong all these years? I have not heard anyone telling me that a few meters away from the shoreline, there is a hidden beauty.

        You no longer need to hire expensive boats just to see Basdaku's floor. But if you would want to witness the "Sardine Parade" then that's the time you hire a boat since that can be seen from a distant area.

      For you to appreciate Moalboal's floor without hurting your wallet, Visit Basdaku during low tide. Yes low tide is the perfect time to snorkel in the area. You only have to walk a few meters and the you will see what I have shown above. 

           You'll see different sea creatures in which you can only witness when you go scuba diving. I have seen clown fish, sea horses(they're so many), sea snake, star fish, medium-sized fishes and other creatures which I could not recognize.

         You can see no signs of damages within the area probably because nobody knows what I did and nobody have ever thought about basdaku as an ideal snorkeling site. Well I do hope that after this blog people will be very careful for not stepping on the corals. YES! NEVER STEP ON A CORAL! OR ELSE YOU'LL DIE. Not a joke, as I stepped my feet unto the sandy area, there are these fishes which keep on attacking me and I felt a very titillating sensation which I could not resist. If you have any fear in fish attacks then this place is not ideal for you.

TIP: For you to check if it will be low tide or high tide for this specific day and time, try to read a lunar calendar. Above and below the date, the sea level which is in "meters" and the time is indicated. If the details are in blue font color, it indicates high tide. If the color is red, it indicates lowtide. You may also check the sea level on the internet,

      The place is very comparable to Olango Islands Marine Life Sanctuary in which corals have been damaged for the management allows people to snorkel the during low tide and thus destroying the supposedly sanctuary for irresponsible snorkelers have been randomly stepping into the corals. So I REPEAT! DO NOT STEP UNTO THE CORALS OR ELSE YOU'LL DIE, YOU'LL DIE IN GUILT.

        After the snorkeling and enjoying the white sand beach oF Basdaku, we have come to pass this beautiful scenery which reminds me of the Loboc Bridge in Bohol. So we stopped and took shots on it for I have not seen this place online.

 


    Then since we haven not bathe ourselves with fresh water when we are still in Basdaku since a container would cost 40php. That's too expensive for us, so we decided to take a sidetrip in the Mantayupan Falls and it would only cost you 20php for the entrance.