Kaputian Beach Resort at Island Garden City of Samal

Though the Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) or commonly called as Samal is just a one hour ride from Davao City, I didn't get any chance to visit the almost bottom part of the former which is the Kaputian. Kaputian is the last stop of the bus coming from Davao before it goes back again to its route.

If you don't have your own service, you can ride a bus which parks in front of Magsaysay Park (Magsaysay Avenue, Uyangurin, Davao City). Each bus differs depending on your destination so just read the big signage placed in the bus' window. The bus will head to Sasa Wharf and will be carried by a barge going to Samal. It will take one to two hours before you reach Kaputian depending again to the speed of the bus and flow of traffic especially during at night wherein people and cars are now rushing in to go back to Davao.

Upon arrival, you will see the resort's signage just in front of the gate. Entrance fee for kids is P5.00 each, adults is P10.00 each and those who brought domesticated animals, owners also need to pay P150.00 each. Small cottages cost P400.00 and big ones are P800.00 each. There also rooms for those who want to stay overnight. Tree houses are P500.00 while family rooms are P200.00. Good thing with this resort is they don't collect corkage if you bring your own food and drinks since the resort itself doesn't have any restaurants available except for a mini sari-sari store. 

The white sand is sparkling and the blue sea water is shimmering against the scorching hotty Mr. Sun. You can tell that the water is really clean since there are still a lot of sea water creatures below such as crab and sea urchins. Don't worry, it is still safe to swim or dive there. A good recommendation if you wanted to visit places like this is you should have a water-proof camera or DSLR so that you can also capture wonderful views below the sea.

Sea urchins.

There is also a display of a preserved sea cow or commonly known as Dugong in a hall beside the entrance gate.

Aside from this, the only amenity that they have is a beach volleyball court. You can rent a ball from the resort management but it would be better if you bring your own. For the frustrated singers like me, they don't have any karaoke for rent available so it is up to the discretion of the visitors/customers to bring his/her own one. Yet, since it is a hassle to bring television set, microphone and speakers in a travel, you can bring medium-sized speakers instead then just plugged it to your Ipod/MP3 player and enjoy the music while feeling the sea breeze.

There is also some rasta men providing tattoo and henna services inside the resort. The picture below is my cousin's chosen design from their samples. The cost relies to the size so the bigger the size is, the higher the price.

Henna Tattoo

The number of people going here depends upon the day which is if it's weekends or summer, obviously family trips usually head to beaches and expect for a lot of them there. However, it doesn't mean that it would be too crowded.

And don't forget also to throw your garbage/left overs in the trash bins/baskets and not anywhere to save our environment. :)