Batong Puti Cliffside Park

Overview

Batong Puti Cliffside Park is a highland viewpoint in Barangay Mahayag, Alicia, Bohol, classified under mountains, hills, and highlands in the provincial tourist-attraction inventory. The name “Batong Puti” translates loosely as “white rock” in Cebuano, suggesting a cliffside formation of limestone or light-colored rock. Visitor social-media posts describe it as a camping and hiking site reached by an unpaved route, consistent with its “developing site” classification, though none of these posts constitute a verified, citable description of facilities or terrain.

[TO ENRICH: full description of the viewpoint, elevation, visible landscape, facilities, and any cultural or geological context.]

Location

Barangay Mahayag, Alicia, Bohol. Alicia is an interior municipality in central-eastern Bohol, accessible from Tagbilaran City.

Getting There

[TO ENRICH: road directions from Alicia town proper to Barangay Mahayag and the park access point. Estimated travel time from Tagbilaran City.]

Practical Info

LGU contact for Alicia tourism: Alicia Tourism, Contact Person Karen Adaya R.N., email 1525adaya@gmail.com (province-level tourism office listing; no direct phone line published, and this is the general municipal tourism contact, not a Batong Puti–specific line).

[TO ENRICH: entrance fee, operating hours, facilities on site.]

What to Expect

Alicia municipality contains several highland and nature attractions, including the Alicia Panoramic Park (TAPP), Princess Manan-aw Cave, and The Alicia Schists. Batong Puti Cliffside Park sits within this cluster of natural sites and may be combined with others on a single day itinerary through the municipality.

[TO ENRICH: specific features of the cliffside — rock face, viewpoint angle, vegetation, trail condition.]

Notes

[FACT NEEDED: source profile lists this attraction by name and classification only — full description requires enrichment. A genuine search turned up only social-media trip-report titles referencing camping and hiking at the site; no independently verifiable entrance fee, elevation, or facilities data was found.]

Source: BPTO Table 11 — Inventory of Tourist Attractions, Bohol Tourism Profile Eco Dev 2025. Barangay Mahayag coordinates cross-checked against Mahayag, Alicia, Bohol Profile, accessed 2026-07-17 — the existing coordinates (9.864593, 124.436623) closely match the barangay’s own reference point (9.8669, 124.4356), so no coordinate change was made.

2026-07-28 research pass (fresh angle): Prior pass had already searched general/social-media terms and found nothing citable. This pass deliberately tried different source types and terms: exact-phrase search "Batong Puti Cliffside Park" Alicia Bohol; Cebuano/Filipino-language search for “batong puti” rock formations; direct Google Maps listing search for the place name; TripAdvisor search; and a direct fetch of the Alicia Municipal Tourism Facebook page’s own entrance-fee announcement post (Municipal Ordinance No. 08, s. 2024 rates), which lists fees for The Alicia Panoramic Park (TAPP), Birhen Nature Resort/Cold Spring, and Princess Manan-aw Cave but does not list Batong Puti Cliffside Park at all. Also fetched Alicia — Behold Bohol (provincial tourism office page), accessed 2026-07-28, which resolved the general LGU tourism contact (added to Practical Info above) but likewise does not mention Batong Puti — its highlighted Alicia attractions are Alicia Panoramic Park, Princess Manan-aw Cave, and the Alicia Schist geological site.

All well-documented sources for Barangay Mahayag actually describe Alicia Panoramic Park (TAPP) at Binabaje Hills — a distinct, separately named and separately located attraction in the same barangay (elevation ~400 masl, entrance fee ₱20–50, compulsory guide ₱300+, various trip reports and TripAdvisor reviews). None of that TAPP-specific data (elevation, fees, trail times, hours) has been carried over into this file, since nothing found ties those figures to “Batong Puti” specifically — doing so would risk conflating two different sites sharing a barangay. Entrance fee, operating hours, on-site facilities, road-access detail from Alicia town proper to the park entrance, and cliffside-specific features (rock face, viewpoint angle, vegetation, trail condition) for Batong Puti itself remain unresolved after this fresh-angle search. A future pass could try: contacting the Alicia LGU tourism office directly (email above), an on-the-ground/CENRO records check, or monitoring the Alicia Municipal Tourism Facebook page for a future ordinance update that names Batong Puti specifically.