Cambugsay Healing Hills

Overview

Cambugsay Healing Hills is an agri-ecotourism area in Barangay San Pascual, Ubay, on the northeastern coast of Bohol. The site encompasses rolling green hills, a coffee farm producing Robusta variety, a red lady papaya plantation, and the Malingin Dam. Trees surrounding the dam were planted by volunteers, giving the site its community reforestation character. The hills and dam together form the Cambugsay Agri-Ecotourism Park.

The “Healing Hills” name reflects the site’s positioning as a restorative outdoor destination for trekking, camping, and team events. A model coffee farm produces Robusta coffee, served at the site with views toward the dam.

Location

Barangay San Pascual, Ubay, Bohol. The site is within the Cambugsay Agri-Ecotourism Park, which includes the Malingin Dam and surrounding farmland.

Getting There

Ubay is accessible from Tagbilaran by bus or van (approximately 4 to 5 hours). From Ubay town centre, hire a habal-habal (motorcycle taxi) to Barangay San Pascual. Alternatively, coordinate the visit through the Ubay Municipal Tourism Officer, who can arrange guided eco-tours.

Practical Info

• Guided eco-tours available; coordinate with the Ubay Municipal Tourism Officer
• Children aged five and above can join tours; proper footwear and clothing required
• Recommended items: extra shirt, hand towel, drinking water
• Camping site available for group activities: team buildings, seminars, trainings, celebrations
• Tour/entrance fee: ₱30 per person (day use)
• Booking: arrange via the Ubay Municipal Tourism Officer, or call 0917-311-3974
• [TO ENRICH: camping rates]

What to Expect

The trek covers rolling hills, tree-lined dam perimeter, and farm areas. After the walk, visitors can sample Robusta coffee and red lady papaya from the on-site model farm while seated near Malingin Dam. The setting is quiet farmland and secondary forest, with no developed resort infrastructure. Group activities are a common use of the campsite. The experience rewards those interested in agricultural land use, reforestation, and Ubay’s food economy rather than those seeking a conventional tourism attraction.

Notes

• Source: BPTO Table 11 — Inventory of Tourist Attractions (verbatim source description preserved above)
• BPTO classification: “Nature” / “Mountains/Hills/Highlands”
• The Model Coffee Farm on site produces Robusta — a detail relevant to Bohol’s growing coffee tourism sector
• Malingin Dam is an internal feature of the same park complex
• Tour/entrance fee (₱30/person) and contact number (0917-311-3974) confirmed by two independent sources: Cambugsay Healing Hills in Bohol: The Nature Therapy You Need (VisMin.ph, accessed 2026-07-28) and Come and Inlove the Hidden Beauty of Cambugsay Healing Hills (kimbasilad blog, accessed 2026-07-28) — both list the fee as “₱30/pax” or “Tour/Entrance Fee: P30/person.” Note both sources date from 2019-2020, so this fee should be treated as indicative/historical rather than guaranteed current — a future pass should re-verify with the Ubay Municipal Tourism Officer directly if precision matters for publish.
• Camping rates: NOT FOUND. Checked VisMin.ph and kimbasilad blog (both describe the campsite’s group-activity use — team buildings, seminars, trainings, celebrations — but list no peso figures for camping). Also checked Finding peace in Ubay, Bohol (Sunstar, 2023) and Exploring Cambugsay Healing Hills with Lars Jensen (TheLoneRider, 2017) — neither mentions camping fees; TheLoneRider actually describes the adjacent Malingin Park/dam area as free/unstaffed, which is a different zone from the guided Healing Hills eco-tour and should not be conflated with camping rates. No official Ubay LGU/BPTO camping rate sheet was found via web search (accessed 2026-07-28, search terms: “Cambugsay Healing Hills camping rate”, “Cambugsay Ubay tourism officer contact number booking”). Camping rates likely require direct inquiry with the Ubay Municipal Tourism Officer — tag left in place.
• An email address was also surfaced in source scraping but rendered as a corrupted/obfuscated string (anti-scraping artifact) in every fetch attempt — could not be verified as genuine, so it was deliberately omitted rather than transcribed as-is.