Samal Island : Historical Places

Samal Island offers some of the best natural sceneries there is: Monfort Cave Bat Colony, Malipano Island, Talikud Island, Kaputian Beach, best view of Mt. Apo, and Sinapaan Island to name a few. 

But aside from natural sceneries, Samal Island also has some interesting, "unconventional", historical spots : the headquarters of Filipino Crusaders World Army, Inc. , and the Japanese Cave House. Both are not usually visited by tourists like the other spots but are actually equally interesting, especially if you will be able to hear the stories behind their historicity. I was fortunate to be able to visit them, thanks to Wilmar's (my wonderful Samalenyo companion) suggestion after I asked him if Samal Island has some historical spots I could go visit.

THE WHITE HOUSE

White House

Samal Island : Escapade on an Island Paradise

A small island off the coast of Davao City, Samal Island is actually a city known as Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS), and was formerly composed of three different towns (Babak, Penaplata, Kaputian) which was later merged to form the city. 

Sinapaan Island (Vanishing Island). Samal, Davao del Norte.

The island's official name includes the word "garden" and that made me curious. I thought then that the city must be a very large garden with so much to see and do, and lo! I was not mistaken. I was able to visit the island city finally during my 4 days Davao Region town hopping activity, and man, I was not disappointed!