Anda Falls

Overview

Anda Falls sits in Barangay Tawid, Anda municipality, on Bohol’s eastern peninsula. The falls drop into a clear natural basin suitable for swimming, ringed by forest. The Bohol Provincial Tourism Office source classifies it under Nature / Falls in the provincial tourist attraction inventory. The approach trail runs through vegetation where local flora and fauna turn up along the way.

The site is noted as easily reached and used by both residents and visitors as a day trip. The forest corridor around the falls remains intact — uncleared for development.

[TO ENRICH: waterfall height, drop measurements, and volume data are not confirmed in available sources.]

Location

Barangay Tawid, Anda municipality, eastern Bohol. Anda Poblacion is the nearest town centre, with the falls reachable from there by habal-habal. Inday Potenciana Chapel sits nearby, and the Anda cave pool circuit and Anda Municipal Plaza are within the same municipality.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran, travel by bus or van to Jagna (approximately 2 hours), then by habal-habal or van to Anda (30–45 minutes). From Anda Poblacion, hire a habal-habal to Barangay Tawid. One independent source gives the leg from the Anda bus terminal to the falls as roughly 12 km, about 30 minutes by tricycle, or 2–3 hours on foot.

Practical Info

[FACT NEEDED: entrance fee, opening hours, guide requirement.] The trail to the falls is described as easily accessible. Water shoes are recommended for entry into the basin. The site is suitable for families. Visit during dry season (December–April) for stable water conditions and passable trails.

What to Expect

A waterfall feeding into a clear freshwater swimming basin in a forested setting. The basin is deep enough for swimming [FACT NEEDED: basin depth]. The trail from the road passes through secondary forest with observable local plant species. The atmosphere at the site is quiet — a local rather than commercial destination.

Notes

Source: Bohol Tourism Profile Eco Dev2025.pdf (BPTO Table 11 — Inventory of Tourist Attractions). Coordinates are approximate for Barangay Tawid, Anda. [FACT NEEDED: waterfall height, basin depth, entrance fee — a 2-3 query search turned up general descriptions (“crystal-clear waters,” “swimming basin,” “lush greenery”) but no quantified height, depth, or fee data.]

Anda Falls, accessed 2026-07-17.

2026-07-28 fresh-angle attempt: Height/drop/volume, entrance fee, opening hours, guide requirement, and basin depth remain unconfirmed after a second round using different sources/angles: official provincial tourism site (tourism.bohol.gov.ph/visitbohol-anda — its Anda page lists only cave pools, Quinale Beach, and Lamanok Island; no waterfall of any name appears), PPDO Bohol tourist-attractions page (no waterfall listed for Anda), the Anda Municipal Tourism Profile 2017 (Scribd) (summary has no falls/fee/height data — full 134-page doc not accessible), PhilAtlas Tawid barangay profile (demographic only, no attraction data), a Facebook search for “Brgy. Tawid Anda Bohol” (found the barangay’s own page but no post referencing the falls), a TripAdvisor site-search (no dedicated listing for “Anda Falls” — only tour-operator reviews and the unrelated, much better documented Can-Umantad Falls in Candijay), and DENR CENRO Bohol contact info (no online records on this specific site). One new source, aroundbohol.com (accessed 2026-07-28), describes the basin qualitatively as “a deep cistern at the base of the falls” but gives no measured depth — not specific enough to resolve the basin-depth tag. Note for a future pass: thehappytrip.com’s Anda travel guide (accessed 2026-07-28) places “Anda Falls” in Barangay Casica, not Barangay Tawid as stated in this file’s Overview/Location sections (sourced from the BPTO inventory). This is a real source conflict on the barangay, not just a missing-fact gap — flagging for human review since located_in/Location edits are out of scope for this enrichment pass unless a tag specifically flags them.