{"id":35579,"date":"2024-06-15T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=35579"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:47:24","slug":"cebu-2024-day-08-cadapdapan-rice-terraces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/06\/15\/cebu-2024-day-08-cadapdapan-rice-terraces\/","title":{"rendered":"Cebu 2024 \u2013 Day 08 \u2013 Cadapdapan Rice Terraces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 08 \u2014 the heaviest day itinerary-wise of this 11-day trip. Early in the morning we checked out of our resort at Alona Beach, then began a road trip that would take us across the breadth of Bohol Island before turning back to board the 5:20PM ferry at Tagbilaran Port. That ferry would bring us back to Cebu City where our Cebu driver would pick us up for the short journey back to Radisson Blu Cebu \u2014 all hopefully before 9PM.<\/p>\n

Our first stop was the Cadapdapan Rice Terraces<\/strong>. I had mixed feelings during itinerary planning about including this spot. Specifically, Cadapdapan is well out of the way for most visitors. It’s located on the eastern side of the island and about a three-hour drive \u2014 at least \u2014 from where we were starting on Panglao Island. Including it in our Cebu vacation itinerary would basically mean that almost an entire day would be spent just getting to the rice terraces and returning, unless we wrapped other Bohol spots around it. In a sense, I guess I was compensating for the fact that earlier in January this year we had decided to holiday in Cebu instead of Bali, and I had really wanted to capture the famed Jatiluwih rice terraces from the air.<\/p>\n

So in a word or two \u2014 is a visit to the Cadapdapan Rice Terraces worth the trouble? Well\u2026 it depends. The rice terraces at Cadapdapan are quite unlike what I remember from Bali. The latter benefits from hilly terrain \u2014 the Jatiluwih rice terraces are dramatically multi-tiered. The Cadapdapan Rice Terraces spread quite widely across the horizon but do not have very significant elevation. So if you’ve visited the rice fields in Bali, I reckon you might find making the trip to Cadapdapan not entirely worth the trouble. The rice fields had also not yet been planted on the day of our visit \u2014 we were told that planting would only begin in the next month or two.<\/p>\n

Still, I came away from the visit with some great aerial footage, and the wife was also in her usual form \u2014 spotting all kinds of interesting flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

Further notes: there is a small visitation fee \u2014 we paid 30P per person. We were also assigned a guide who walked with us through the fields and in particular brought us to a vantage point on top of a small hill, presenting a gorgeous unimpeded 360-degree view of the entire area. The walk through the fields to reach this hill takes just 10 minutes and is quite manageable, though if it has been raining the trail can be muddy in some spots. A tip for the guide is also recommended. We were assigned a young girl who looked like she was in high school or college, and most interestingly spoke very good English for a Bohol local.<\/p>\n

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I’m the ant-sized figure on the hill!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n