Bolocboloc Spring

Bolocboloc Spring is a cold-water pool in Barili, a farming town in southwestern Cebu where rice and corn fields still account for more of the local economy than tourism does. The water comes from an aquifer rather than surface runoff, which is why it holds a near-constant temperature regardless of how hot the day gets outside the pool. Spring flow like this depends on forest cover in the watershed upstream holding rainfall and releasing it slowly — worth noting given how much of Cebu’s interior forest cover has thinned over the past few decades.

• The temperature difference is immediate on entry — expect genuinely cold water, not just a shaded pool.
• Picnic areas sit under tree cover around the pool, useful for a lunch stop between other south Cebu sites.
• Morning arrivals get the pool at its quietest; it fills up with local families through the afternoon.

Explore More in Moalboal and Southwest Cebu

• Basdaku Beach
• Liki Spring Asturias
• Tongo Point