Pandin Lake — Attraction in San Pablo

This place is a good place to relax. It's about 2 hours and 30 minutes from manila on weekdays and about 3 hours on weekends. Getting there was a little bit tough Becasuse there is only 1 small sign directing to a small pathway down the road. There is parking across the pathway, there's a little house where you pay around about 50 pesos for parking your car there.

From the road you would have to walk about 400 meters that's about 15 minutes of normal paced walking to the lake, but there is an entrance fee of 30 pesos per person on the way. After reaching the lake you have a sari sari store and rafts for rents.

The rafts you can rent to either just cross the lake or have a picnic on the raft and it costs around about 230 pesos per person (Not including food) the people who were renting out the rafts they can provide food but it would be more than 300++ pesos per person. I would highly suggest if your going on a weekend you would call there number on trip advisor and reserve a raft Because when it's the weekend it's very busy and there would be a very high chance that there wouldn't be enough rafts.

Overall I would recommend this place to chill and to have fun! The lake is super cold and refreshing to swim in. Inexpensive but an...

Ride a trike from the highway. Road is steep. Option to walk for about 15-20mins. Raft fee for 2hrs is 300 per pax. With food, they will charge you 550. The lake is not that big, you can see the end to end and there's this long rope in the middle that the boatmen pull to get the raft moving. The guides are trying their best to make the experience enjoyable. There's also a bit of a hiking activity that will take 5mins to get to the top where it's overlooking another lake from the other side. Water is clean and no smell. There's a swing made of car tire at the other end tied on a tree. Swimming is optional as they offer life vests. There's not much to do really. There's no wow moment here if you've been to el nido or coron so cannot compare. We were just in the area thats why we opted to go but to drive all the way here for this from Manila, not worth the travel. I think the fee is a bit high if you think of what you'll get from it but yeah inflation.

PS: the...

We went here in January. The weather was cold and there was light rain. Going there is easy. The locals are friendly and public transport (jeep) has a sign "ILOG" which will take you to the drop point. There is a 10 to 20 minute trek between two private lots. Luckily the owners gave a right of way to the lake. We decided to went there early in the morning so as to avoid the crowd and to have the lake to ourselves. The lake itself is serene, so relaxing. You can spend the entire day in it. Only a local environmental group is there to take water samples. Our guide told us that they, themselves, take care of the lake. Help from the local government is small or non-existent. We did not have proper swim wear nor extra clothes so a swim was not in our agenda. Like I said, we were there early so we were not able to eat lunch, which they say is fantastic. At the end of the lake, there is a path that will have you glimpse...