San Francisco Town in Camotes Island Cebu

San Francisco Town is one of the 3 towns in the Island of Camotes in Cebu. It is 30 minutes travel from the Pier while 2 hours sea travel from the Mainland Cebu. From Cebu City it will take 1 hours to reach Danao port. Camotes Island is home of one of the best beach in Cebu.


San Francisco Central Elementary School


The road to Danao Lake, San Franciso Camotes. No worries other road to camotes island is concrete.

The loan Caltex Gasoline in San Francisco. The price per liters is expensive. Its P63 if I am correct. a P500 worth of gasoline is enough to circumnavigate Camotes Island

San Francisco Town Market is a reclaimed area. Here you can see the habal habal transportation famous in any part of Cebu.

Every weekend, the town celebrate a Tiange type of market
(Post made is through the effort of our freind in the industry known as battery isolator and marine battery switch)



Main San Francisco Town Center. The road is small and good for 2 car or vehicles only. The street are clean and you will find less local in the street for they are busy people.



The main crossing which tell you where you can go.


A modern house in San Franciso Town. There are actually cheap rooms for rent in this town with the prices ranging from P600 to P1000 pesos. We spent P600 for a night with aircon and CR room. You can use all facilities available like bahay kubo and electricity. Free biking pa. So if you are working in an outsourcing company offering call center services this is the right place to relax and enjoy your summer of weekend. I strongly recommends this island for call center agents.

A century old houses in San Francisco Cebu

Well design bay walk in San Francisco Town

Municipal Building where you can ask for map of camotes island so you will not missed any road. You can also ask for affordable room for rent in Camotes located besides beach and it is 30 to 40 minutes away from the Santiago Bay Resort.


Affordable room for rent in Camotes or San Francisco Town. This is just 30 minutes ride going to Santiago Bay where you can visit the mangodlong rock resort, Santiago bay resort, a much further and magnificent bukilat cave and other resorts. From here you can also start traveling to Tinubo Cave for P100 pesos per Habal Habal destination. Now if you are interested to visit here, I have a post on how to visit to camotes island?

Lake Danao Camotes Island

On the way to Lake Danao - You will only see plain and lot of useless farm. Hope the Department of Agriculture helps this island.

This is 1 hour float for only P150. We enjoy the stay yet too bad we did not bring our foods.

Me coming from 3o minutes boating from this about 1 to 2 km wide Lake Danao

The main entrance of Lake Danao.


The famous Lake Danao docking area. This is re enactment of the introduction of certain movie maker when i child jump to the lake from the same structure. Too bad we did not jump. We feel that the lake has Crocodile.


Going to Lake Danao is not perfect due to this torturing roads.
(courtesy of our friends in industry Pet containment system for financial matter)

You can actually catch fish or do fishing on the side of the lake then have it cooked by the people in the park P150 per kilo. Villagers of the area was told by their forefathers that this place were used to be full of crocodiles not until they were hunted and sold in Mindanao to produce bags, shoes, and belts out of crocodile skin.

Behind are some fishes best for catching.

The best thing that you should not leave the place without posing at this single mini docking station of the sakanaw(balsa).



This is a balsa maintained by a private owner, a villager nearby. You can rent this for only P25.00 per head per hour. This is quite cheaper but the thing is it cannot travel around the whole lake area for it was just being controlled by a rope for they are not allowed to use motor.
(Courtesy of another friends in the business world, the best scented candles )
It contains fresh water and still is abundant with fishes.
And this is the sakanaw or balsa that u can use to tour around the lake for a fee of P500.00 maximum of 20 persons. This is being maintained by the local government.

Timubo Cave in Camotes Island

The Timubo Cave in Camotes Island is one of the fresh water cave in the Camotes Island where visitors is allowed to swim. It took us about 30 minutes driving from the San Francisco Town in Camotes.

Lucky too many people and motorcycles are going there so you will not miss any path to this area. The road is not concrete so be ready. Visit Camotes Island now and enjoy the summer.

This is the road to Timubo cave so you need to drive slowly.

The main entrance of this cave with sign P15 per head. No need for spotlight for there are lighting inside.



Even so there are lights, still scary. Yet no worry for there are many people come and go inside. I


It is so deep and may be about 3 to 4 floors deep.


Water passage where kids get scared

The mighty korean ladies swim on this cave. They are only 2 and no interpreter.



You will enjoy this experience even you spend thousand of pesos like me hahahah. Well again through the help of my friends in best scented candles. The provider of homemade scented candles in various states.

Mangodlong Rock Resort in Camotes Island Cebu

Mangodlong Rock Resort in Camotes Island Cebu is one of the best resort in Camotes but a little expensive for local tourist like us. It is because they do not have fan room so you need to spend P1600 per night. Mostly visitors that stays here are foreigners like Korean, European and Americans.


Mangodlong Rock Resort on rock view

Mangodlong Rock Resort swimming pool. It is actually small and its looks like prepared for children. No body is swimming because the guest are mostly foreigner which is not enough for the pools size.



Lance really wanted to swim but we do not have time to stay.

Free use of the cottage if you are guess. You will see foreigners in the background.


Jumping in this Mangodlong Rock Beach Resort is common for the local tourist. Have you jump here already?

Mangodlong Rock Resort main cottage area

Mangodlong Rock Resort main attraction scary view and children should be accompanied by adults

They said this Mangodlong Rock Resort is best for night because it has its own lightning


Some guys love challenge and pa cute so they stand near the clip of Mangodlong Rocks




They said it could be a dive spot during high tide and low level waves.






This is how deep the ravin

Mangodlong Rock Resort - Entrance to the rock cottage


Bigger view of the Mangodlong Rock Resort

Mangodlong Rock Resort








If you are planning to spend days in one of the resort in Camotes Island, then you need an early reservation because they are usually full specially those rooms consider as affordable like fan room.

This resort accept visitors for site seeing at P75 per persons.