Badiang Spring

Overview

Badiang Spring in Barangay Anas, Valencia town sits at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. The spring emerges from the clifftop surrounded by tall coconut palms, old talisay trees, and dense tropical foliage; from this vantage point the sea spreads out below. The spring is both a bathing site and a historical drinking-water source for the surrounding neighbourhood — a dual function that has continued as the Local Government Unit (LGU) developed it into a formal resort.

Valencia town lies 42 kilometres east of Tagbilaran City along the coastal highway. The spring resort is positioned directly off the national highway in Barangay Anas, and jeepney and bus drivers routinely drop passengers at the gate on request. The resort claims a distinction specific to Bohol: it is the only facility in the province where visitors can use both a cold freshwater pool and warm seawater within the same visit, as the spring outlet flows to the sea beyond the fenced resort boundary.

The developed resort infrastructure includes two pools — a large rectangular main pool (deepest point 8 feet, shallower end 5 feet) and a smaller children’s pool below the waterfall — fed by the spring through a controlled concrete channel. Thatched huts with tables and seats, a covered pavilion, dressing rooms, and decorative lampposts for evening swimming complete the facilities.

The resort also operates as a lodging property: third-party lodging directories list 11 standard twin rooms (17 sq m, around PHP 1,400), 9 deluxe rooms (19 sq m, around PHP 2,200), and 2 family rooms (22 sq m, around PHP 3,200), alongside a restaurant, mini bar, and function area. The Valencia municipal tourism office confirms the resort sits on a 1,250-square-meter shore lot in Barangay Anas, with continuous flow from a subterranean rock spring.

Location

Barangay Anas, Valencia municipality, approximately 42 kilometres east of Tagbilaran City along the coastal highway. The spring faces the sea at a clifftop position, with rocky shoreline rather than sand beach below. The coastal road passes directly in front of the resort entrance.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, board a V-hire or bus at the Dao Terminal bound for Valencia. Tell the driver to drop you at Badiang Spring — drivers are familiar with the stop. Travel time is approximately 1 to 1.5 hours depending on service. The resort entrance is a few steps from the national highway.

Practical Info

Entrance fee: an older sourced narrative cites PHP 20 per adult; a separate visitor report cites PHP 30. Both figures may be outdated — [FACT NEEDED: current, confirmed entrance fee]. Cottage and hut rental fees apply. The pool area is lit for evening swimming. The spring flows continuously; water temperature is cold near the outlet and warmer further out toward the sea. Comfort rooms and dressing facilities are on-site. The area outside the fenced resort boundary — where the spring water diverts to the sea — serves as a free washing and bathing area for locals. A resort contact number, (038) 510-8241, appears in third-party lodging listings but has not been independently confirmed.

What to Expect

Two spring-fed pools: a main rectangular pool at 5–8 feet depth and a shallow children’s pool below the waterfall outlet. Water is cold directly from the spring, warming slightly in the pool. Beyond the resort fence, the shore is composed of smooth round stones — good for pebble collecting but not for swimming off the beach. Open sea swimming is possible at a distance from the spring outlet where water temperature normalises. Nearby Arco Point, off Panglao, is a known dive spot with a fish-filled cave — though that site is separate from this spring resort.

Notes

Source narrative: 01-brain/library/older_files_to process/20260604-bohol-html/attractions/badiang-spring.md. The Valencia municipal government’s own tourism page confirms the Barangay Anas, Valencia location, resolving the earlier uncertainty about a possible Garcia Hernandez boundary overlap. [FACT NEEDED: current entrance fee — conflicting older figures of PHP 20 and PHP 30 both appear in visitor sources.] Coordinates are approximate for Valencia coastal area.

2026-07-28 re-check (fresh angle, no new figure found): tried TripAdvisor, the resort’s official Facebook page, local travel blogs, and the LGU accommodations page instead of re-running the original search. Findings: (1) the TripAdvisor listing for “Badiang Spring” (tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1877504-d3547071) is actually for a different Badiang Spring in Valencia City, Bukidnon Province, Mindanao — not this Valencia, Bohol site — so it was discarded as a false lead, and AI-search summaries that cited it for this entity should not be trusted. (2) Every other hit that states “PHP 20.00 for adults” (bohol-philippines.com, islandsphilippines.com, mypilipinas.com, jabongar.wixsite.com summaries) traces back word-for-word to the same c.2011 greentravelphilippines.wordpress.com post / badiangspringresorthotelinvalenciabohol.travel.blog post already on file as the “older sourced narrative” — not an independent, current confirmation. Directly fetched greentravelphilippines.wordpress.com (2011) and jabongar.wixsite.com (2017): neither actually states an entrance fee when read in full — the P20 figure some search summaries attribute to them was a fabricated/hallucinated snippet, not present in the fetched text. (3) Official Facebook page (facebook.com/OfficialBadiangSpringHotel) fetched but returned no pricing info (static fetch can’t reach dynamic FB content — would need a logged-in browser session to check posts/photos for current signage). (4) The municipal tourism URL cited above (valencia-bohol.gov.ph) now fails to resolve (DNS error 2026-07-28); the LGU site appears to have moved to valencia.bohol.gov.ph — checked its Hotels and Accommodations page, no fee listed. No credible current entrance-fee figure was found this round; PHP 20/30 remain unconfirmed guesses from stale sources. Next angle to try: a logged-in Facebook/Google Maps reviews check (recent visitor photos of the rate signage), or a phone call to the resort/LGU tourism office.

Badiang Spring | Municipality of Valencia, Bohol, accessed 2026-07-17. Badiang Spring Resort and Hotel in Valencia Bohol Island, accessed 2026-07-17.